Airlines
UK Seeks Far-reaching Open Skies with EU Post-Brexit
Wish list includes seventh and ninth freedom rights

The UK government on Friday released a long-awaited document spelling out its ambitions for air transport with the EU after it leaves the bloc at the end of March next year. Its proposal for market access envisions the continuation of current arrangements for UK and EU licensed air carriers to operate services to, from, and “wholly within the territory of the UK and the EU on an equal basis,” including maintenance of seventh and ninth freedom rights – respectively, the right to fly between two foreign countries while not offering flights to one’s own country; and the right to fly within a foreign country without continuing to one’s own country.