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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hashan dis" data-source="post: 19276392" data-attributes="member: 124785">Air Serbia gets ‘fifth freedom’ rights from Sri Lanka’s Mattala Sri Lanka has approved a Bilateral Air Service Agreement with Serbia  under which Air Serbia gets fifth freedom rights to carry traffic  between foreign countries if it uses a new airport in the island’s south  that has failed to draw airlines.Government spokesman Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said the  Bilateral Air Service Agreement between Sri Lanka and Serbia would help  develop air services and tourism in Sri Lanka. “Especially the Mattala International Airport can be used by allowing  Serbian aircraft to fly to other countries,” he told a news conference.Mattala airport has been criticised for its inability to draw airlines several years after being built with Chinese loans.Fifth freedom traffic rights refers to the right for an airline to take  passengers from its home country, deposit them at another country and  then pick up and carry passengers on to other international  destinations.       Air Serbia, formerly Jat Airways, is 49 percent owned by Etihad Airways, the Abu Dhabi-based carrier.Sri Lanka’s Bilateral Air Service Agreement with Serbia allows  designated airlines of both countries, including SriLankan Airlines and  Mihin Lanka, to operate up to seven flights a week using third and  fourth freedom traffic rights.These are the usual rights for an airline to deliver revenue traffic  from the airline’s home country to another country and to carry traffic  back. The agreement also allows the airlines to operate unrestricted passenger charter flights between the two countries.  (Colombo/November 12 2015)  </blockquote>

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