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Following nearly two years of negotiations, Oman’s Civil Aviation Authority formally initialed a Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement with the European Union and its Member States signalling the Sultanate of Oman’s ambitions for a more liberalized air traffic accord with the European Union. The initialed agreement strengthens both parties’ commitment to fair access to markets for Oman and all EU Member States and is an important first step in a planned 5-year implementation leading up to a fully formalized open skies accord. The initialling was witnessed by Oman’s Civil Aviation Authority President His Excellency Eng. Naif Bin Ali Al Abri, His Excellency Najeem Sulaiman Al Abri, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to the Kingdom of Belgium, and Head of the Omani Mission to the European Union, and Mr. Henrik Hololei, Director-General for Mobility and Transport of the European Commission. The Sultanate of Oman holds bilateral third and fourth air freedom rights with several EU Member States, including France, Germany and Italy. The Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement paves the way for the Sultanate of Oman to increase flight frequencies on existing European routes and add other European destinations for the national carrier Oman Air (WY) and Salam Air (OV). Reciprocally, the Agreement will allow EU airlines to fly to all Omani airports from their home country or from any other EU Member State. Currently, Air France and KLM are the only EU airlines that fly direct to Muscat International airport (MCT) — the Agreement effectively aims to ease market access to Oman for more EU airlines. Besides market access, the Agreement also contains provisions on a number of other important aspects of aviation including commercial opportunities, doing business, safety, security, air …

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