Hi there. I’m struggling to understand how traffic rights work within the EU. If I’m based in a member country, can I carry passengers freely from another EU country to a third country (ie. Russia). Thanks
No, you can't. You only got traffic rights to outside the EU from your home country.
http://en.airlinesim.aero/wiki/index.php/Tutorial/1.5/Expert_Knowledge/Traffic_Rights
No, you can't. You only got traffic rights to outside the EU from your home country.
http://en.airlinesim.aero/wiki/index.php/Tutorial/1.5/Expert_Knowledge/Traffic_Rights
That's what I understood from the Wiki, but then I have some flights out of a different EU member than my origin country to thir parties that carry some passengers. How is that possible?
Is the “third party” country also member of the EU?
If no, are the passengers carried connecting passengers?
Then it is possible. As a EU member you can carry passengers freely within the EU zone (incl. Switzerland), but to countries outside the EU you can only carry them from your origin country (also possible if they continue on your flight via another airport).
As voeni wrote, these few passengers are probably connecting passengers from your other flights. Passengers can book them, as long as their journey starts or ends in your home country.
Have a look in your route management - right below origin and destination, you can see red and/or green dots, indicating your passenger and cargo traffic rights.
I am based in Italy. I have a flight from BUD to SVO. It is now carrying 11pax, 10 of them from own connection and 1 to external connectios. Does that mean that all 11 pax come from Italy? Isn’t there another way to fill that flight? Thanks
Have a look in your route management - right below origin and destination, you can see red and/or green dots, indicating your passenger and cargo traffic rights.
I hadn’t notice that… Cheers
Yes, all these 11 pax are starting in Italy. You can of course offer more connections to BUD, so that more pax can connect to your BUD-SVO flight. Hubs outside your home country are generally possible like that. But it's hard to make them work. So I'd recommend you establish a hub in Italy and start your flights to SVO from there.
Got it. I had not realised until now… Made me lose tonnes of money, though…
One more thing: if I create a subsidiary in another EU member, will I benefit from that country’s traffic rights or will I keep the Italian ones no mather what?
It will still have Italian traffic rights. You can only get foreign traffic rights in countries with unrestricted market access (visible on the info page for the country - e.g. Bolivia, Argentina).