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What Are Air Services Agreements? is an article written by the AFF editorial team:
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That's not quite right.and the agreement between Australia and France only allows for three flights per week. This is one reason that has been cited for Qantas deciding not to fly to Paris.
That's not quite right.
The agreement with France has 3 different "routes", such that New Caledonia has a different limit to mainland France.
The cap to mainland France is 3.0 "units", not flights. A "unit" is based on the number of seats on the aircraft used. An aircraft with over 400 seats is 1 "unit".
The Qantas config of 236 seats on a 787 would fall into the 0.5 unit range, which would allow for 6 flights/week.
Route 1
3.0 units of capacity per week in each direction.
The designated airlines of Australia may enter into arrangements with other airlines, including airlines of third countries, to undertake services through code share, blocked space or other joint venture arrangements - currently there is no capacity available..
HenceMemorandum of Understanding 1992
In 1996, Australia and New Zealand agreed to create a single market for air transport that was distinct from the previous agreements which were more restrictive. Some notable changes that affect Trans-Tasman travel include allowing Australia and New Zealand to operate in each other's domestic markets.[19]
This was followed by an endorsement of the open skies agreement under the International Civil Aviation Organization in 2007 which further allowed Australia and New Zealand's international flights to operate in each other's domains beyond to third countries without restriction.[19]
That's no capacity for more codeshares.Good pick up. I've removed that from the article.
Interestingly, the register of available capacity says that "currently there is no capacity available" on Route 1.
The capacity.is allocated to Qantas to codeshare on Air France services, and Virgin to codeshare on Qatar services.That's no capacity for more codeshares.
Singapore and New Zealand have open skies treaties with Australia, allowing their international airlines to fly to any location in Australia as much or as little as they want.I think Qatar is bonkers for addiing new capacity - but the real question is why as Sing and AirNZ not piled in. An outside observer must suspect collusion of sorts.
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In addition Australia- New Zealand is a single aviation market (SAM)
Trans-Tasman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Hence
- QF flying AKL to USA
- Air NZ owning and operating a domestic airline in Australia - Ansett (RIP),
- Qantas group operating domestic airlines in NZ. Initially QF and then JQ
- Virgin Au operating NZ domestic flights 2007-2010 Virgin Australia Airlines (NZ) - Wikipedia