Proposal for ‘Asean community carrier’ with no ownership restrictions

Prof Alan Tan from NUS Faculty of Law has proposed that domestic laws and agreements among regional countries on ownership and control of airlines should be liberalised in order to bring in more foreign investments and meet growing demand from trade and tourism. He suggested that ASEAN member states recognise community carriers designated to operate in each other’s countries; and air services agreements with non-ASEAN countries should also be amended to recognise these airlines.

• TODAY, 27 December 2017