CABOTAGE RIGHTS:
CHICAGO CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIAL AVIATION
The Issues
The main issue is whether grant of cabotage rights to one State lays the grantor open to claims by other States that they are entitled to be granted the same rights. Additional points to be considered are what steps a State claiming such rights could take to secure them and whether safe- guards can be incorporated in any grant of cabotage rights to prevent, claims to the same rights by other States.
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Each contracting State shall have the right, to refuse permission to the aircraft of other contracting Staten to take on in its territory passengers, mail and cargo carried for remuneration or hire and destined for another point within its territory. Bach contracting State undertakes not to enter into any arrangements which specifically grant any such privilege on an exlusive basis to any other State or an airline of any other State, and not to obtain any such exclusive privilege from any other State.
Competing Interpretations
Sweden raised the question of the interpretation of the
second sentence of Article 7 in the Council of the
International Civil Aviation Organisation in 1966. The
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