6.2 Air Service Agreement

The ASA = the bilateral treaty exchanging the traffic rights (the Chicago Article 6's consent made contractual): the structure's anatomy — the routes-and-points (the designated airlines' cities), the capacity-and-frequency (the seats-and-flights' limits-or-freedom), the the freedomsgranted (the third-and-fourth's home traffic; the fifth's beyond-rights; the sixth's hub flows — the terminology the exam loves), the tariff clauses (the double-disapproval faces), the designation-and-authorisation (the flag's carriers' licensing), the safety-and-security clauses (the Annexes' incorporation; the revocation faces), the fair-competition-and-taxation, and the dispute settlement (the negotiation-arbitration ladder — 6.5). Nepal's ASA world: the ~40- agreement wardrobe (the neighbours-and-the-Gulf core: India (the historic 1997/2010s' revisions — the points-and-capacity politics; the sixth-freedom flows), the Gulf states (the labour traffic's arteries — the Qatar-Emirates'-and-the-Gulfair era), China (the north's opening-and-the Himalayan routes), the ASEAN faces (the single-market's protocols), and the tourism-markets' flags); the policy's debate: the liberalisation-for-tourism (the open-skies' calls; the 2019-era's liberal impulses) vs the flag's protection (the national carrier's-and-the slots' politics); and the air-bubbleera (the COVID's temporary regimes — the crisis-innovation's illustration).