Regulation on charter flights
Dear all,
I am doing a research for my phd-studies on how the open skies/horizontal agreements have had an impact on the current market and how it would create opportunities in the future when the crisis will change for already established carriers.
My research has shown that a lot of charter carriers in Europe have had to pay money/royalty to carriers in Turkey, Egypt and other countries in the Northern Africa for route rights. The problem has been when for example a Dutch carrier wanted to operate charter flights out of Germany or Belgium to Turkey or Egypt. They would not be granted charter rights as they were not holding a valid AOC from either Germany or Belgium and the rights where only allowed to carrier from country a (Turkey/Egypt) or country b (Belgium/Germany) – not country c (Holland).
I have had very difficult in finding cases where a European country has actually blocked another European carrier for flying the operation from country a to country b having a valid AOC in country c which is within Europe. This could be in a situation where an Italian carrier wanted to operate out of Germany to India or Thailand and was holding a valid Italian AOC. The German CAA or Governmental Authorities would not grant the route rights to the Italian carrier as the local available capacity of charter aircrafts was high.
Hope you could come up with some cases which I may Google up and use for my studies.
Thanks in advance