OPEN SKIES CASE
May 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission's long running bid at the European Court of Justice to undermine the series of bilateral 'open skies' agreements struck between individual EU Member States, and the USA has taken a further step forward, with the opening of oral proceedings.These deals allow airlines from both sides the right to fly to each others' territory and on to another country, but not to undertake onward domestic flights to a neighbouring terminal.Brussels is opposed to these deals struck by Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and ...
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