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Jan 15, 2018 (newstodate): EU and Azerbaijan are moving close to finalizing, at long last, a common aviation area agreement in 2018.
Talks will be in January 27-30 in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the Director General of the European Commission's department for mobility and transport's visit to Azerbaijan.
If the negotiations are successful, the parties hope to sign the agreement already in January or February 2018.
An aviation agreement grants open skies between contracting member states and EU, removing restrictions on prices, frequencies and capacity on flights to enforce full and free competition.
The last remaining snags on the long road towards an agreement have been that EU does not accept the monopoly enjoyed by Azerbaijan Airlines, EU also does not accept sustained state subsidies for the national airline, and finally EU also does not accept the joint ownership of a national carrier and a country's capital airport.
Only two of the former Soviet states are today without an aviation agreement with EU, namely Azerbaijan and Belarus.
Talks will be in January 27-30 in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the Director General of the European Commission's department for mobility and transport's visit to Azerbaijan.
If the negotiations are successful, the parties hope to sign the agreement already in January or February 2018.
An aviation agreement grants open skies between contracting member states and EU, removing restrictions on prices, frequencies and capacity on flights to enforce full and free competition.
The last remaining snags on the long road towards an agreement have been that EU does not accept the monopoly enjoyed by Azerbaijan Airlines, EU also does not accept sustained state subsidies for the national airline, and finally EU also does not accept the joint ownership of a national carrier and a country's capital airport.
Only two of the former Soviet states are today without an aviation agreement with EU, namely Azerbaijan and Belarus.