Freedoms of The Air

Overview

Freedoms of the air apply to commercial aviation (carrying paying passengers, transporting cargo or mail). In the sections below, every freedom is explained thoroughly.

Freedom	Description	Example
1st	the right to fly over a foreign country, without landing there	Toronto - Mexico City, as a Canadian company, overflying the United States.
2nd	the right to refuel or carry out maintenance in a foreign country on the way to another country	Toronto - Mexico City, as a Canadian company, but stopping for fuel in the United States.
3rd	the right to fly from one's own country to another	Toronto - Chicago, as a Canadian company
4th	the right to fly from another country to one's own	Toronto - Chicago, as an American company
5th	the right to fly between two foreign countries during flights while the flight originates or ends in one's own country	Bangkok - Kuala Lumpur - Doha, as a Qatari company
6th	the right to fly from a foreign country to another one while stopping in one's own country for non-technical reasons	Dubai - Cairo - Paris, as an Egyptian company
7th	the right to fly between two foreign countries while not offering flights to one's own country	Kuala Lumpur - Jakarta, as an Italian company
8th	the right to fly between two or more airports in a foreign country while continuing service to one's own country	Chicago - New York - Toronto, as a Canadian company
9th	the right to fly inside a foreign country without continuing service to one's own country	Beijing - Shanghai, as an Italian company