GMA lifts restrictions on flights to Clark
By Joyce Pangco Pañares
Manila Standard Today
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has lifted restrictions imposed on air carriers flying to the Diosdado Macapagal and Subic Bay international airports but remained firm in rejecting negotiations for cabotage.
The President signed Executive Order 500-A to delineate territorial and jurisdictional coverage and the type of services available to foreign carriers that have signed air services agreements with the Philippines.
“All grants of civil aviation entitlements and other forms of air traffic access, both passenger and cargo or a combination, shall be geared toward the development and enhancement of these airports as new international gateways of the country,” Mrs. Arroyo said.
In the said EO, the President also ordered the country’s air negotiating panel to start talks with Malaysia, Thailand and Korea within the next 20 months to ensure the continuity of flights in the Clark-Subic area as an international aviation and logistics center.
“The Philippine Air Negotiating Panel may use any negotiating or diplomatic option to give meaning and positive results to the envisioned objectives of this issuance,” the President said.
Among the international passenger and cargo air carriers allowed to fly to and from the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport and Subic Bay International Airport are budget airlines, such as Tiger Airways and Air Asia, as well as giant courier firms, such as Federal Express and DHL.
The President said that “upon application of foreign air carriers already designated to DMIA and Subic Bay International Airport by their respective home countries based on existing Air Service Agreements, the Civil Aeronautics Board shall lift the limitations on the third and fourth freedoms.”
A typical Air Service Agreements provides for at least nine air freedoms, the third being the right to carry passengers from the home country to another country and the fourth being the right to carry passengers to the home country from another country.
Mrs. Arroyo also expanded the air services of the two international airports by allowing foreign carriers that are not designated to any Philippine airport but have existing bilateral air pacts with the Philippines to enjoy both the third and fourth freedoms.
The only condition stated in EO 500-A was that the foreign governments must officially designate those international carriers to DMIA and SBIA.
But the President retained the restriction on cabotage, the seventh freedom which allows foreign airlines to carry revenue traffic to a Philippine airport to a third country without having to pass from its home country.
“All other forms of air traffic rights that are defined by the international civil aviation community, listed after the fourth air freedom, except cabotage, may be subject to application by any foreign carrier,” Mrs. Arroyo said.
The eighth and ninth air freedoms—consecutive cabotage or the right to carry passengers between two domestic points within a foreign nation and stand-alone cabotage or the right to transport cabotage traffic on a service performed entirely within the territory of the granting State—are also effectively barred under the EO.
Manila Standard Today
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has lifted restrictions imposed on air carriers flying to the Diosdado Macapagal and Subic Bay international airports but remained firm in rejecting negotiations for cabotage.
The President signed Executive Order 500-A to delineate territorial and jurisdictional coverage and the type of services available to foreign carriers that have signed air services agreements with the Philippines.
“All grants of civil aviation entitlements and other forms of air traffic access, both passenger and cargo or a combination, shall be geared toward the development and enhancement of these airports as new international gateways of the country,” Mrs. Arroyo said.
In the said EO, the President also ordered the country’s air negotiating panel to start talks with Malaysia, Thailand and Korea within the next 20 months to ensure the continuity of flights in the Clark-Subic area as an international aviation and logistics center.
“The Philippine Air Negotiating Panel may use any negotiating or diplomatic option to give meaning and positive results to the envisioned objectives of this issuance,” the President said.
Among the international passenger and cargo air carriers allowed to fly to and from the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport and Subic Bay International Airport are budget airlines, such as Tiger Airways and Air Asia, as well as giant courier firms, such as Federal Express and DHL.
The President said that “upon application of foreign air carriers already designated to DMIA and Subic Bay International Airport by their respective home countries based on existing Air Service Agreements, the Civil Aeronautics Board shall lift the limitations on the third and fourth freedoms.”
A typical Air Service Agreements provides for at least nine air freedoms, the third being the right to carry passengers from the home country to another country and the fourth being the right to carry passengers to the home country from another country.
Mrs. Arroyo also expanded the air services of the two international airports by allowing foreign carriers that are not designated to any Philippine airport but have existing bilateral air pacts with the Philippines to enjoy both the third and fourth freedoms.
The only condition stated in EO 500-A was that the foreign governments must officially designate those international carriers to DMIA and SBIA.
But the President retained the restriction on cabotage, the seventh freedom which allows foreign airlines to carry revenue traffic to a Philippine airport to a third country without having to pass from its home country.
“All other forms of air traffic rights that are defined by the international civil aviation community, listed after the fourth air freedom, except cabotage, may be subject to application by any foreign carrier,” Mrs. Arroyo said.
The eighth and ninth air freedoms—consecutive cabotage or the right to carry passengers between two domestic points within a foreign nation and stand-alone cabotage or the right to transport cabotage traffic on a service performed entirely within the territory of the granting State—are also effectively barred under the EO.
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