[-] v1.2 Central American hubs
sami:
I found the doc but it's again in lawyer-English so ... hmpf. No clear answer from there. And it also has many options for the fifth freedoms that each signing country can decide by themselves. So getting a bit complicated.
TFC1:
Quote from: sami on April 27, 2010, 06:34:14 PM
Oh, and DK+SE are both EU members, and actually the Norwegian domestic routes SAS flies are operated by their company based in Norway (=Norwegian company) .. SAS Norway, Wideroe, (old) Braathens etc. So unless SE+NO had a bilateral agreement about fifth freedoms SAS Sweden could not fly domestic Norw. routes. So the Scandinavia etc is really a "moot" point - we cannot model every bilateral agreement the states have, and usually there the privilige is given only to designated carriers. AWS will only model free market and the air freedoms will eventually include the open aviation cross-border markets but none of these case-by-case bilateral agreements as that's not possible in this environment.
And manual states: "(....) Exception to this are the common economic areas with free air travel competition (namely, European Union)."
You've got this one wrong. SAS was one entity until the 2004 when Braathens SAFE was integrated after it's purchase in 2002. SAS split the company into 4 parts, SAS Braaathens (Norway), SAS Denmark, SAS Sweden and SAS Intercontinental. In 2009 SAS re-consolidated everything back into 1 company on one AOC. The main reasoning for the initial disintegration of the company was to attempt to thwart the influence of the various unions within SAS (currently standing at 28...)
Norway is connected to the EU through the EFTA-EU European Economic Area agreement (agreed upon in 1994) regarding the unrestricted movement of goods, services and manpower. With the implementation of this agreement, most of the government imposed regulations regarding air transport in Norway were removed, and free competition and 5th freedom rights were allowed. So basically it means that Ryanair can fly domestic routes in Norway if they so choose, just as they can do in the UK or Germany.
There is however a restriction on some routes in Norway, where the government provides subsidies to keep them open. ENGM-ENFG is one of them, and also a selection of routes in Northern Norway.
So I'd include Norway as a part of the EU-area regarding hubs effective as of Jan 1st 1995
sami:
According to the information the central American states do not have the full 7th,8th,9th freedom rights between each others. "Open skies" is not the same as full cabotage rights, which the AWS Hub feature gives out.
http://www.acs-aec.org/Documents/Transport/Final_ATA_En.pdf
The agreement only allows 5th freedom; and also "Nothing in this Article shall be understood to mean that a Party grants to an airline of another Party the right of cabotage."
And according to the "policy" the 5th freedom modelling won't be done for now as it's way too complicated to find all the data http://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,5424.msg132114.html#msg132114
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