BRUSSELS AND WASHINGTON HIT STALEMATE OVER FURTHER OPEN SKIES DEAL
July 1st, 2009
BY ALAN OSBORN
THESE are uncertain times for international aviation deals generally thanks to the global recession, but nowhere is the situation more fraught than in Washington where negotiations for the second stage of the 2007 'open skies' agreement between the European Union (EU) and the USA appear to have run into the buffers. Two problems here: the election of a worryingly protectionist House of Representatives last year and the absence so far of a coherent air transport policy from the Obama administration. Which side will President Obama take on the ...
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