International Air Transport Association "IATA" called on aviation authorities in the Middle East and North Africa to expand the application and activating the open skies between the various countries of the region agreements in order to keep up with the escalating growth of air travel as well as at sustaining high rates of occupancy for airlines in the region.
The Association noted in the report that despite the proof of the open skies policy Aalitha in air traffic development, some countries are still reticent to engage strongly in this step, as recent years have seen the signing of a number of agreements which did not reach the ambitious key players in the system of industry air transport in the Middle East and North Africa, according to the Middle East.
Tony Tyler head of the International Air Transport Association said that the countries of the region to get rid of some of the restrictions that prevent the expansion of the political open atmosphere, where it is the imposition of measures on the airspace of some countries, pointing out that the pace of growth in the region requires to overcome the challenges and to control the airspace by opening new paths contribute to the absorption of air traffic and the rate of demand for the service, which achieves good returns for airlines and the economy in general.
He added that the expansion of the compatibility and integration between stakeholders in the air transport industry is essential and important to achieve the objectives of the national projects, where air transport service is a key player in it.
The Gulf civil aviation authorities embarked on the application of open skies in the Middle East policy, in order to enhance the rates of passenger traffic across its airports. In addition to working on the development of the sector and promote it to cope with the global developments in the civil aviation industry, including work to raise the volume of investments in the development of airports and fleets of airlines and the future vision, and in light of the significant increase in population growth, economic growth and provide a huge development projects in these countries , which paid to try to make the most of the open skies policy in the economic and tourism development.
Returning to the report «IATA» the forecasts point to continued volume growth in the region over the coming years due to the economic growth and the expansion of the massive investments in the industry aviation projects, which requires work to strengthen cooperation in the open air and more air passages with the highest standards improve air safety and air traffic performance.
Working «IATA» with the airlines to apply best efforts to reduce fuel consumption practices through a simple process measures, including reducing the loads is necessary on the plane, where the study of the Union refers to the 80 airline found that these companies can provide an average of 5 to 15 per cent of the cost of fuel through the application of these procedures.
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