[-] Addition of Fifth Freedom Flights

[Michael J Toffman]

Fifth freedom allows an airline to carry revenue traffic between foreign countries as a part of services connecting the airline's own country. It is the right to carry passengers from one's own country to a second country, and from that country to a third country (and so on).

E.g. in real-life, EK DXB-BKK-SYD-CHC, DXB-MXP-JFK, QF SYD-SIN-LHR, BNE-LAX-JFK etc.

The airline could apply for approval from the countries involved, perhaps only a certain amount of seats on a specific sector for passengers between the cities on that sector only.

[Sami]

Freedoms of air are modelled only after real treaties.

5th freedom is currently only available in EU in AWS and these single exceptions for single routes / single airline realistically cannot be added since there's a really hard time in finding any data for them.

There are other treaties that are not yet modelled (besides of EU) and those will be added at some point...

https://www.airwaysim.com/game/Manual/Routes/Freedoms/#Freedoms

[qunow]

Excuse me, how to schedule a fifth freedom flight in EU in AWS?

[Sami]

Just quoted the manual bit quickly. But yes since routes are always two legs (instead of three) it's 9th freedom. But if 3-leg routes are used then 5th is available in eu.