[8] Australianaviation.com.au: “Australia signs the open skies agreement with China.” Australian Aviation, 2016 australianaviation.com.au/2016/12/australia-signs-open-a-skies-agreement-with-china/ Table Notes: i. The air services agreement between the United States and the European Union, signed on 30 April 2007, was provisionally implemented to all 27 EU member states on 30 March 2008. Norway and Iceland are parties to the agreement between the United States and the European Union in accordance with an agreement signed and provisionally implemented on 11 June 2011. ii. Multilateral agreement on the liberalisation of international air transport iii. Applied on the basis of convention and reciprocity iv. The agreement between the United States and the Kingdom of the Netherlands applies to Curacao. The United States does not have open skies agreements with several Asian countries, including China, Vietnam and the Philippines. In the case of China, the United States signed a protocol on off-air air travel in 2007, which contains restrictions on frequencies and code-sharing. [5] His language consolidated what the researchers described as “the most liberal and flexible bilateral transportation regime” in China. [6] Australia was quick to follow suit and signed an open skies agreement with China at the end of 2016.

The U.S. State Department supports open skies agreements and calls them “pro-consumer, pro-competition, and pro-growth … Open-ski agreements improve the flexibility of air operations, expand commercialization opportunities between airlines, enable global express delivery networks, liberalize charter rules and impose high safety standards on both governments. [2] An analysis by InterVISTAS Consulting showed that the liberalization of air traffic between two nations “will generally increase traffic by about 16 percent”. [3] A 2015 study by the Brookings Institution yielded similar results. [4] The first airline alliance took place between Northwest Airlines and KLM, a Dutch airline. The benefits of ATI have become so attractive to airlines as a result of the KLM/Northwest decision that “foreign government interest in open-air relations with the United States has increased significantly.” [21] In January 2018, the United States