International Civil Aviation Negotiations 2016 was held in Nassau from 5-9 December 2016.
Conference was attended by 106 countries out of ICAO membership of 191 countries. India held negotiations with 17 countries.
“Memorandum of Understanding” was signed with 12 countries.
The major issues resolved at these negotiations as per the directions in National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP 2016) were as follows.
India renegotiated traffic rights with Oman increasing the entitlements with 6,258 seats effective from Summer 2017 as the existing entitlements were nearly exhausted.
India also agreed with Saudi Arabia to increase the capacity by 8000 seats per week from IATA season when Indian carrier’s utilisation reaches 80%.
India concurred with Ghana to increase the present allocation of 2 frequencies to 7 frequencies per week to encourage connectivity between the two countries.
Open Skies agreement as per NCAP 2016 allows unlimited number of flights to six metro airports namely Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai, was signed with six countries namely Jamaica, Guyana, Czech Republic, Finland, Spain and Sri Lanka.
New Air Service Agreements were signed with Jamaica and Guyana.
Code shares will be encouraged and other air service agreements were resolved with nations such as Ethiopia and Bangladesh.
Open Skies Agreement- International policy connect.
- Calls for liberalisation of commercial aviation.
- It minimises government intervention for passenger, cargo and combination transport as well as scheduled and charter services.
- It adjusts the regime under which military and other state based files be allowed.
- Air transport agreement(bilateral or multilateral) is signed to give effect to open skies policy.
