Cooperation in civil aviation with Russia….
The civil aviation authorities of Turkey and Russia, that came together for negotiations in Moscow, reached agreement on increasing destination points to 10, removing frequency limitations in cargo and removing Royality charges.
Turkish Committee, which went to Russia on 22-23 April 2008 to revise existing bilateral air transport agreement signed in 1967, reached agreement with its Russian colleagues to form new destination flight points.
After the negotiations under the chairmanship of General Director of Civil Aviation, Dr. Ali ARIDURU, the parties signed a memorandum of understanding on agreed issues.
According to this Memorandum of Understanding; Krasnodar, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Sochi and Ufa are added to scheduled destination points in Russia. As a result, Turkey can perform flights to these five cities besides Moscow, Yekaterinburg, S.Petersburg, Rostov and Kazan. Turkey is allowed to make 5 flights to Ufa and 3 flights to other cities per week. Four new destination points that will be defined later, are assigned to Russia in addition to İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Dalaman, Bodrum and Antalya.
As a result, the designated airline companies got the right of performing flights to 10 points equally in each country. It is expected that the new flights begining in the near future will contribute to both economic relations and Turkish tourism
Cooperation in Cargo Transport….
Additionally, parties can designate any number of airline company for cargo transport between those destination points and designated companies can perform scheduled cargo flights without any frequency and capacity limitation. Parties also agreed to cooperate on ground handling, maintenance, training, engineering and other technical issues.
The transition in Royality charges in accordance with EU….
Additionally, it is also agreed to decrease the fees gradually, that are paid to Russia for the use of Transsiberia line since 2010, after the agreement between Russia and European Union. The parties that accepted a transition process in accordance with European Union for Royality charges, also agreed to remove these charges by including Turkish companies in 2013. In addition, noise and flight safety issues were mentioned in negotiations and parties agreed to conform international standards on these issues.
General Directorate of Civil Aviation performed negotiations with 7 countries in this year….
The number of negotiations in 2008 increased to seven with the last negotiation with Russia. GDCA had negotiations with Syria, Sri Lanka, Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore and Bahrain.
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