The document discusses the Freedoms of the Air, which are commercial aviation rights that allow airlines to enter and operate in other countries' airspaces. It defines the nine Freedoms: 1) fly over a foreign country without landing 2) refuel/maintenance in a foreign country en route to another 3) fly from one's country to another 4) fly from another country to one's own 5) fly between two foreign countries with a stop in one's own country 6) fly between two foreign countries using one's country as a transit point 7) fly between two foreign countries without stopping in one's country 8) fly domestically in a foreign country while continuing to

1. Freedoms of the AirFreedoms of the Air

2. a set of commercial
aviation rights granting a
country's airline(s) the
privilege to enter and land
in another country's
airspace
fundamental building
blocks of the international
commercial aviation route
network

3. ** The use of the terms 'freedom'
and 'right' only confer entitlement to
operate international air services
within the scope of the multilateral and
bilateral treaties that allow them.

4. First Freedom
the right to fly over a foreign country
without landing

5. Second Freedom
the right to refuel or carry out
maintenance in a
foreign country on the way to another
country
without picking up or setting down
revenue traffic

6. Transit Rights
“The first and second freedoms
grant airlines the right to pass through
a country without carrying traffic that
originates or terminates there”Chicago Convention 1944- International Air
Services Transit Agreement (IASTA)
Two Freedoms Agreement
The treaty is accepted by 129
countries as of 2007

7. Traffic Rights
*allow commercial international
services between, through and in some
cases within the countries that are
parties to air services agreements or
other treaties
International AirTransport Agreement (IATA)
 Five Freedoms Agreement

8. Third Freedom
the right to fly or carry revenue traffic
from
one's own country to another

9. Fourth Freedom
the right to fly or bring revenue traffic
from
another country to one's own*Third and fourth freedom rights are
almost always granted simultaneously
in bilateral agreements between
countries

10. Beyond Rights
• allow the carriage of traffic between
(and sometimes within) countries
that are foreign to the airlines that
operate them

11. Fifth Freedom
the right to fly or carry revenue traffic
between
two foreign countries during flights
while the flight
originates or ends in one's own country

12. Sixth Freedom
the right to fly or carry revenue traffic
from a foreign country to another one
while stopping in one's own country for
non-technical reasons, setting one’s
own country as the transit point

13. Seventh Freedom
the right to fly or carry revenue traffic
between two foreign countries while
not offering flights or stopping to one's
own country

14. Cabotage
• transport of goods or passengers
between two points in the same
country by a vessel or an aircraft
registered in another country
• trade or navigation in coastal waters,
or, the exclusive right of a country to
operate the air traffic within its
territory

15. Eight Freedom
• the right to fly or pick up and set
down revenue traffic between two or
more domestic airports in a foreign
country
while continuing service to one's own
country
• Also referred as ‘continuing
cabotage’

17. Ninth Freedom
• the right to fly or pick up and set up
revenue traffic between two or more
domestic airports in a foreign
country
without continuing service to one's own
country
• Pure cabotage