The Dominican Republic has signed an aviation agreement to transport passengers and cargo by airlines of Antigua and Barbuda and the Dominican Republic. Civil Aviation Board (JAC) President Luis Paulino Rodriguez Ariza said that the new agreement replaces an earlier version signed in 1994.
The agreement will enable airlines designated by each country to fly to all points in the national territory from anywhere in the other territory, exercise fifth and seventh freedom rights to intermediate points and beyond, according to a table on agreed upon routes.
The fifth freedom allows an airline to carry revenue traffic between foreign countries as a part of services connecting the airline’s own country. It is the right to carry passengers from one’s own country to a second country, and from that country to a third country (and so on). The ‘unofficial’ seventh freedom is a variation of the fifth freedom and allows international services wholly outside of an airline’s origin.