Vice Premier and Infrastructure Minister Borys Kolesnikov has said there is no possibility on giving the Fifth Freedom of the Air fight to Ukrainian and Russian airlines if both countries open up their aviation markets.
"I think that we’ll have everything apart from the fifth freedom of the air," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.
Kolesnikov said that talks with Russia will finish by late July.
The fifth freedom of the air, also referred to as beyond rights, allows an airline to carry revenue traffic between foreign countries as a part of services connecting to the airline’s own country.
As reported, earlier Ukrainian carriers supported the lifting of restrictions in air space between Ukraine and Russia, saying that the market was over-regulated.
The terms and conditions of activities of commercial airlines flying regular flights between Ukraine and Russia are defined by an intergovernmental agreement on air communication signed on January 12, 1994, taking into account amendments made over the past years.
Earlier Anatoliy Kolisnyk, Head of the State Aviation Service, forecasted that air borders with Russia would be opened in the summer of 2011.
