HC Deb 09 May 2000 vol 349 c360W
27. Sir Sydney Chapman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions which non-United Kingdom and non-United States carriers have received further fifth freedom rights from the UK in the last year; and which applications are still outstanding. [120167]

Mr. Mullin

In the last year the UK has granted new fifth freedom traffic rights, or additional frequencies to existing rights, to the designated airline or airlines of the following countries:

  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Greece
  • India
  • Luxembourg
  • Mauritius
  • Namibia
  • Pakistan
  • Uganda.

Requests for new fifth freedom rights are often made in the course of negotiations but are then not pursued.