6. Policy Options
Moves towards Open Sky will involve taking up a range of individual policy options, each of which will have its own impacts. The policy options apply to combination and pure cargo services.
The most important policy options are:
• Removing investment and ownership controls;
• Permitting multiple designation;
• Removing route capacity controls;
• Relaxing restrictions on gateways; and
• Wet lease aircraft to be allowed within ASEAN.
These are changes, which are likely to have the largest impact on the ways the aviation
market works. Other policy options are:
• Relaxing fare restrictions;
• Granting 5th freedom, both within and beyond ASEAN;
• Allowing 7th freedom operations;
• Charter liberalisation;
• Enhancing market competition;
• Cargo liberalisation;
• Allowing domestic cabotage;
• Removing restrictions on ground handling; and removing doing business restrictions.
These options can be implemented on a sub regional basis, or on a whole of ASEAN basis.