§ Mr. StringerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list those countries which(a) have agreed, (b) have failed to agree and (c) have not responded to his statement of 10 June 1998, Official Report, column 580, on multilateral agreements on 3rd and 4th freedoms at regional airports. [57533]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonOf the 74 bilateral partners to whom open access to regional airports has been offered 11 have accepted it. The 11 are
Bahrain, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Fiji, Jamaica, Jordan, South Korea. Malaysia, Pakistan, Qatar and Turkmenistan.The regional access offer has been rejected by 12 bilateral partners. These are:
Armenia, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Saudi Arabia, the Seychelles, and Yemen.The following countries have not yet responded to the offer:
Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Botswana, Brunei, Chile, Congo. Cöte d'voire, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, 314W Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Kyrghyzstan, Lebanon, the Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, the Philippines, Russian Federation, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.In addition, holding replies or requests for further information or for discussion of the offer at air services talks have been received from Australia, Hong Kong SAR, Kenya, Namibia, and Oman.
§ Mr. StringerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the new international routes to regional airports that have been agreed consequent upon the Minister's statement on the liberalisation of access to regional airports on 10 June. [57532]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonThe only new routes to UK regional airports which have so far been agreed as a result of the regional access offer announced on 10 June are routes between UK regional airports and Jamaica. The air services arrangements with the other ten countries who have accepted the regional access offer already allowed carriers to serve regional points in the UK, but only with limited capacity. Those capacity limits have now either been removed, or will be removed once formal amendments to the air services arrangements have been made.