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The Five Freedoms of Aviation

Wendover Productions · 3.7M views · 2016-11-22 · 14:05

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Overview

A Wendover Productions explainer on the political agreements, from the Chicago Convention onward, that determine which airlines can fly where. It lays out the five freedoms of the air.

On Hacker News

HN links it whenever airline route rules, cabotage or loopholes come up, as a concise background explainer.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2023

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Aviation & aerospace engineeringGeopolitics & foreign policy
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airlinesfive freedomsair treatiescabotageaviation economics

What people said

graton · 2019-09 · Recommendation

The five freedoms of aviation are: 1) The right to fly over a foreign country without landing. 2) The right to refuel or carry out maintenance in a foreign country without embarking or disembarking passengers or cargo. 3) The right to fly from one's own country to another country. 4) The right to fly from another country to one's own. 5) The right to fly between two foreign countries on a flight originating or ending in one's own country. This video has a lot of good info on it: [VIDEO] And wikipedia page: [LINK]

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lagadu · 2019-03 · Recommendation

Norwegian is technically an EU airline because despite the name they're also headquartered in EU countries. This is so because being EU-based they're free to use all EU airports to base flights out of, which they use to good extent to make flights between the US and the French Caribbean islands, something that would be impossible had they been solely HQd in Norway :) Check out this video about it (Norwegian starts at about 10 minutes in): [VIDEO] edit: turns out they're registed in several countries, not just Denmark.

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crikli · 2018-01 · Recommendation

I was rolling my eyes at the subtitle. The article devolved from there. Some great (sometimes indirect) information on why the 747 and to a lesser extent the A380 are being phased out, from my new favorite YouTube channel, Wendover Productions: The Economics of Long-Haul Flights: [LINK] ETOPS: Explained [LINK] Politics of Aviation / 5 Freedoms of Aviation: [VIDEO]

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