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Sep 15, 2022 (newstodate): Air transport agreements are basic learning for airline companies - but may still cause surprises..
   One fresh example is the Icelandic start-up carrier Niceair that was forced to pull out from its scheduled routes from Akureyri to London Stansted and Manchester, planned for launch from June 3, 2022, but stalled after only one flight due to Brexit legal effects on air services by EU member state airlines.
   Now, the German virtual carrier Lubeck Air has been taught a similar lesson, according to aero.telegraph.
   By end of May this year, Lubeck Air launched flights on a new direct nonstop route from Lubeck to the British channel island Jersey, operated by its partner, the Danish carrier Air Alsie.
   But since early in July, Lubeck Air has been forced to route the flight via Air Alsie's hub at Sonderborg Airport, in Denmark.
   As a self-governing dependency of the United Kingdom, Jersey is neither part of the EU, nor the British kingdom, and scheduled flights to and from Jersey therefore require a bi-lateral air transport agreement between the countries involved.
   Operated by a Danish carrier, Lubeck Air's flights must therefore originate from Denmark.
   Lubeck Air is now planning to apply for an own AOC to operate flights on its route network with own aircraft and crews.
   In 2020, Lubeck Airport, on Germany's Baltic Sea coast, lost services by Ryanair and Wizz Air, driving Lubeck Airport to set up an own virtual airline, Lubeck Air, to bring back regional connectivity.
   Lubeck Air launched services in cooperation with the Danish regional carrier Air Alsie operating its ATR72-500 aircraft on Lubeck Air's routes opening in June 2020 from Lubeck to Munich and Stuttgart.