ASA-Fiji Agreement: International Aviation

Running Head: INTERNATIONAL AVIATION
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International Aviation
ASA-Fiji Agreement
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4/7/2019

International Aviation
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International Aviation
Recently, Australia has air services agreements with around 100 countries or economies. In
this context, Fiji has also quite constrained Air Service Agreements (referred as ASA’s)
through limiting the number of seats as well as flights operated. Airlines which are operating
within international air services do so in capacity entitlements enclosed in air services
agreements (Fiji Sun, 2017). In addition, the register of current capacity sets out capacity
available for the all Australian carriers. In this context, the seats capacity available to the
international foreign carriers as well as its uptake during the recent scheduling season has set
out within the Growth Prospective for Foreign Airlines (Department of IARD, 2017).
Moreover, the Australian department has recognized a data room covering comprehensive
info over Australia's bilateral rights as well as entitlements for assisting applicants within
developing applications for current capacity. In the context of ASA, it was signed amid many
countries for deciding over number of flights which countries’ airlines can easily fly into each
other’s region. Hence, Fiji and Australia both have agreed to a modified ASA which is
showing increased number of available seats for the airlines of both of the countries
(Department of IARD, 2017).
Furthermore, key points of ASA in the context of this new deal of Fiji are as follows:
 The ASA amid Australia and Fiji was recently extended during May 2017; while
passengers’ seat capacity has been increased by 10 % as well as cargo capacity got
doubled (Australian Government, 2019).
 Prior to this updated agreement’s announcement, airlines of Australia and Fiji
countries were using just 6,500 seats of current capacity from Australia’s 4 main
gateways of Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth as well as Sydney to Fiji.
 In this way, Fiji Airways being the only airline service flying from Fiji to Australia
has used 6,490 seats. In addition, in the year 2017-18 Northern Winter (NW) season
Fiji decided to expand its agreement with ASA. Hence, now it flies from Nadi to
Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney and from Suva to Sydney (Fiji Sun, 2017).
 As per the data analysis, Fiji Airways has also announced a replacement of all of their
122-seat 737-700s and 164-seat Boeing 737-800s with newly arrived 185-seat 737
MAX 8s, demonstrating a double-digit % hike of capacity.