Canada’s Minister of Transport, Marc Garneau, has declared that the country has successfully signed new air transport agreements with St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Algeria, Qatar, Jordan, Côte-d’Ivoire, and Mongolia. The new agreements will benefit the Canadian air travellers and transporting companies and provide them with better and greater choices.
The minister said: “We are pleased to develop new air transport relationships and expand existing ones with our many partner countries around the world. These new and expanded agreements provide air carriers with additional flexibility to serve these growing markets, which is good news for travellers, shippers, and the air transport industry.”The new agreement with St. Vincent and the Grenadines is an Open Skies-type agreement, which allows an unlimited number of passenger and cargo flights between Canada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The expanded air transport agreements with Algeria, Qatar, and Jordan allow designated airlines to operate more flights per week to and from Canada. The expanded Canada-Jordan agreement also allows designated airlines to serve any city in the other country’s territory.
The modernised agreement with Côte-d’Ivoire has been expanded to include a fully open and flexible code-sharing regime. The first-time agreement with Mongolia provides an open and flexible code-sharing regime and will help to strengthen the burgeoning bilateral air transport relationship. Code-sharing occurs when an air carrier sells seats on a flight operated by another air carrier, allowing it to expand its network and product offerings.
As these new or expanded agreements are being administratively applied, the new rights under these new and expanded agreements are available for use by airlines immediately.
