CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Context: India has signed a bilateral air service agreement with 116 countries including neighbouring Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Pakistan along with the US, UK, UAE etc.

Detailed explanation-2: -India has signed Bilateral Air Service Agreement with 116 countries | IBEF.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bilateral agreements are air service agreements between two countries which provide different degrees of freedom of air, which are a set of commercial aviation rights granting a country’s airlines the privilege to enter another country’s airspace.

Detailed explanation-4: -A bilateral air service agreement is concluded between two contracting countries and liberalizes commercial civil aviation services between those countries.

Detailed explanation-5: -India has recently signed an ‘open skies agreement’ with Greece. The agreement aims to allow an unlimited number of flights from India to Greece whereas Greece is allowed to make unlimited flights to 6 metro cities in India.