Freedoms of the air are a set of commercial aviation rights that grant an air operator to enter a country’s airspace.
They include the following:
First Freedom
The right to fly over a foreign country without landing.
Second Freedom
The right to refuel or carry out maintenance in a foreign country without embarking or disembarking passengers or cargo.
Third Freedom
The right to fly from one’s own country to another country.
Fourth Freedom
The right to fly from another country to one’s own.
Fifth Freedom
The right to fly between two foreign countries on a journey originating or ending in one’s own country. Each leg can be flown by a different aircraft so long as the same flight number is used.
Sixth Freedom
The right to fly from a foreign country to another while stopping in one’s own country for non-technical reasons.
Seventh Freedom
The right to fly between two foreign countries, where the flights do not touch one’s own country.
Eighth Freedom
The right to fly between two foreign countries, where the flights do not touch one’s own country.
Ninth Freedom
The right to fly within a foreign country without continuing to one’s own country.
