Commercial transfers and transport can only be made if the states involved in the operations allow it. In particular, in order to provide a stable legal basis for international air services, Member States have concluded air/air agreements. Normally, these agreements are concluded between two contracting states – bilateral agreements. Most air services are excluded from U.S. trade agreements. When air services are included, the scope is very limited. In these cases, the Office of International Aviation cooperates with the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the State Department to ensure that these provisions are consistent with U.S. aviation policy. In the General Service Tariff Agreement (GATS), the Air Services Annex explicitly limits air service coverage to aircraft repair and maintenance operations, computerized reservation systems, and the sale and marketing of air transport.

Under our bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), air service coverage is limited to aircraft repair and maintenance services and specialized air services. For more information, please contact us. The United States has implemented open-air air travel with more than 125 partners. These include several important agreements dealing with rights and commitments with several aviation partners: the 2001 Multilateral Agreement on the Liberalization of International Air Transport (MALIAT) with New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei and Chile, to which Tonga and Mongolia subsequently joined; the 2007 Air Services Agreement with the European Union and its Member States; 2011 agreement between the United States of America, the European Union and its Member States, Iceland and Norway. The United States maintains more restrictive air transport agreements with a number of other countries, including China. The list of airlines and services operating under the Australian Air Transport Agreements and Agreements is available on the International Airlines Timetable Summary page. Air Services Agreements (ASAs) are formal contracts between countries – Memorandums of Understanding (Memorandum of Understanding) and formal diplomatic notes. It is not mandatory to have an ASA for the operation of international services, but cases where contract-free services exist are rare. Open skies policy in America goes hand in hand with the globalization of American airlines. By providing U.S.

airlines with unlimited access to our partners` markets and flight rights at points between and beyond, open-ski agreements offer maximum operational flexibility to U.S. airlines worldwide. In 1913, a bilateral exchange of notes [1] between Germany and France was signed in the first agreement to provide airship services. The Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway and Sweden – have long-standing cooperation in aviation policy. Normally, Scandinavian countries negotiate in joint delegation with other countries. However, Denmark, Norway and Sweden conclude bilateral agreements with other countries, but with largely identical texts. Therefore, information on Sweden`s bilateral agreements with the Community Member States, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland is not published on this website.