Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
Moldova is part of the EU's common aviation area, does this give them the same rights as an EU operator? and if it doesn't, do you know there hasn't been an agreement with the CAA?
I tried looking for the UK-Moldova Air Services agreement on the web - but it seems to have been removed. I've raised a Freedom of Information request to the UK Dept for Transport to see the wording but in the meantime am hoping somebody here might have good knowledge.
The UK-Iceland Air Services agreement does NOT allow EU airlines to fly between the UK and Iceland - hence Niceair being unable to charter Maltese airline HiFly to fly between Iceland and the UK and Niceair eventually going bankrupt. Iceland is more closely integrated with the EU than Moldova (part of Schengen, etc...). More surprising is that HiSky Moldova specifically uses an H7 (HiSky Moldova) IATA code for Moldova-UK and Moldova-Israel flights, but H4 (HiSky Romania) for everything else... which suggests there's a specific need for the Moldovan (and not Romanian) company to be flying to the UK (and Israel)