Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
For a route to be PSO eligible, it generally needs both airports to be on the territory of the same country. There are a few exceptions but these often involve political anomalies.
Are you sure about
needing both airports in the same country, David? The Strasbourg network you mention is a counter-example (l'exception Francaise
) but there is actually nothing in the regulation to limit PSOs to routes within a single country:
1. A Member State, following consultations with the other Member States concerned and after having informed the Commission, the airports concerned and air carriers operating on the route, may impose a public service obligation in respect of scheduled air services between an airport in the Community and an airport serving a peripheral or development region in its territory or on a thin route to any airport on its territory any such route being considered vital for the economic and social development of the region which the airport serves. That obligation shall be imposed only to the extent necessary to ensure on that route the minimum provision of scheduled air services satisfying fixed standards of continuity, regularity, pricing or minimum capacity, which air carriers would not assume if they were solely considering their commercial interest.
This is from
EC1008/2008 in case insomnia is a problem...