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 | | According to the ICAO, the benchmark Bermuda Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, signed in 1946, was the first of almost 4,000 bilateral air transport agreements signed and registered with this organization as of today (ICAO, 2005). |
 | | For this reason, traditional bilateral aviation agreements are out of date and governments are starting to move toward agreements with country blocks rather than individual nations to create open skies between geographic regions. |
 | | The US-EU open skies agreement is an alternative to existing individual open skies agreements between the US and 15 EU member states, as well as existing restrictive bilateral agreement between the US and Ireland, Greece, Spain, Hungary, and the United Kingdom. |
| www.american.edu /ted/open-skies.htm (3823 words) |
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