Recently Pakistan had denied permission to use its airspace for the Go First’s flight from Srinagar to Sharjah that was launched in October 2021. With this refusal, experts have said Pakistan has violated the first freedom of air under the Chicago Convention.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah had launched a direct flight between Srinagar and Sharjah operated by budget airline GoFirst (formerly known as GoAir) on October 23, 2021. The flight operated on a route that took it through Pakistani airspace before heading southwest and arriving in Sharjah.
- Following the Chicago Convention in 1944, the signatories to the convention decided to set rules that would act as fundamental building blocks to international commercial aviation
- Convention on International Civil Aviation (also known as Chicago Convention), was signed on 7 December 1944 by 52 States.
- By 5 March 1947 the 26th ratification was received. ICAO came into being on 4 April 1947. In October of the same year, ICAO became a specialized agency of the United Nations linked to Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
- As a part of these rules, initially, six ‘freedoms of air’ were decided. These freedoms or rights grant airlines of a particular country the privilege to use and/or land in another country’s airspace. The first freedom of air grants the right to an airline of one country to fly over a second country and land in a third country.
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