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- Each designated airline may on any or all flights and at its option:
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- a)operate flights in either or both directions;
- b)combine different flight numbers within one aircraft operation;
- c)serve behind, intermediate, and beyond points and points in the territories of the Contracting Parties in any combination and in any order;
- d)omit stops at any point or points;
- e)transfer traffic from any of its aircraft to any of its other aircraft at any point;
- f)serve points behind any point in its territory with or without change of aircraft or flight number and hold out and advertise such services to the public as through services;
- g)make own stopovers at any points whether within or outside the territory of either Contracting Party; stopover rights shall not be available between points in the territory of the either Contracting Party;
- h)carry transit traffic through the other Contracting Party’s territory; and
- i)combine traffic on the same aircraft regardless of where such traffic originates,
- without directional or geographic limitation and without loss of any right to carry traffic otherwise permissible under this Agreement.
- 2
- The right of the designated airline(s) of either Contracting Party to exercise fifth freedom traffic rights shall be discussed and agreed upon on a reciprocal basis by the aeronautical authorities of each Contracting Party. In the case of the Netherlands, the request for fifth freedom traffic rights shall be subject to national administrative laws; this means that the granting of fifth freedom traffic rights will take place after internal consultations. Such rights shall become available to the designated airline(s) immediately upon agreement between the civil aviation authorities of both Contracting Parties.
