EAST ASIA ICAO
November 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLAN INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) meeting has supported a plan to boost civil airliner access to Afghanistan airspace, offering new choices for long-haul flights from southern and east Asia to Europe. ICAO's coordination meeting on reduced vertical separation (RVSM) implementation for the Bay of Bengal and India backed an International Air Transport Association (IATA) proposed traffic orientation scheme for commercial flights crossing the Kabul FIR. The meeting agreed that a management plan should be devised to "optimise the use ...
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