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The major issues resolved at these negotiations as per the directions in National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP 2016):
1. Increase in traffic rights – India renegotiated traffic rights with Oman increasing the entitlements with 6,258 seats effective from summer 2017 as the existing entitlements were nearly exhausted. India agreed with Saudi Arabia to increase the capacity by 8000 seats per week from IATA season when Indian carrier’s utilisation reaches 80%. India also agreed with Ghana to increase the present allocation of two frequencies to seven frequencies per week to encourage connectivity between the two countries.
2. Open Skies agreement as per NCAP 2016 – allows an unlimited number of flights to six metro airports namely Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai, was signed with six countries namely Jamaica, Guyana, Czech Republic, Finland, Spain and Sri Lanka. The new arrangement would encourage connectivity and passenger travel between India and these countries.
3. New Air Service Agreements were signed with Jamaica and Guyana.
4. Code Shares- In the present scenario codeshares provide seamless connectivity to the travelling passengers and make possible connectivity between far off destinations not served by direct flights. As per NCAP 2016 codeshares are to be encouraged and keeping this in view, negotiations were completed with nine countries to enable the legal framework between the governments of these countries to make possible codeshares between the airlines of two sides.
5. Resolution of other issues relating to Air Services Agreement was also completed with Ghana, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, Hong Kong, Ethiopia and Bangladesh.
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Source: travelnewsdigest.in