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India,
New Zealand ink new air services pact
New
Delhi: India and New Zealand have agreed on a
new Air Services Agreement that will replace the existing
agreement done at Wellington on August 26, 1997. Delegations
representing the Government of New Zealand and the
Government of India met at Queenstown, New Zealand
on October 18 and 19, 2005 for the air services negotiations.
It was determined that the designated airlines of
India and New Zealand could operate up to seven services
per week and exercise full third, fourth and fifth
freedom traffic rights at intermediate points in Australia
and at Singapore on the specified routes. It was also
decided that code shared services involving the designated
airlines of the two countries may be introduced without
capacity restriction and with full traffic rights
via the intermediate points in Australia and in Singapore.
For
the designated airlines of India, destination points
that may be served in New Zealand are Auckland, Wellington,
Christchurch, Queenstown and Dunedin. For the designated
airlines of New Zealand, destination points that may
be served in India are Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi,
Hyderabad and Chennai. The delegations exchanged views
on the merits of including a ground handling provision
in the Agreement, and decided that it would be considered
in the future after the Indian Government had concluded
its civil aviation policy review. The Indian delegation
was headed by Civil Aviation Secretary Ajay Prasad
and included among others Satyendra Singh, Director
General of Civil Aviation. The New Zealand delegation
was headed by John Bradbury, Deputy Secretary Access
and Services, Ministry of Transport, New Zealand.
-Oct
24, 2005
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