S’pore, UK sign landmark aviation pact
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The Singapore Ministry of Transport said with this, Singapore Airlines (SIA) will now be able to operate as many services as the Singapore-UK market could support.
Its aircraft can also pick up passengers from London’s Heathrow Airport and fly them onwards to other cities, including those in the United States. Similarly, UK carriers will be able to operate any number of services beyond Singapore to any other city in the world.
Singapore’s Transport Minister Raymond Lim said: “This is indeed a trail-blazing agreement concluded between two forward-looking countries that share a common objective of promoting free competition in the aviation sector.”
The Ministry said the OSA provides for unlimited “hubbing” and “cabotage” rights for carriers of both countries. For example, Singapore carriers will be allowed to base their aircraft in UK and use UK as a hub to operate to any other country without any restriction. The same privilege applies to UK carriers. The cabotage rights allow Singapore carriers to operate like a domestic carrier in the UK and to mount any number of services between UK cities.
These rights will be effective from end-March 2008.
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