UAE to ink open skies deal with 10 countries

The UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority (GCCA) has said it plans to sign open sky agreements with at least 10 countries in 2010, Khaleej Times has reported. "We will be signing open sky agreements with Australia and Nepal in the first quarter of 2010. Talks are in progress with India and Pakistan also to work out an open sky agreement with them at the earliest,' said Saif Mohammed Al Suwaidi, Director-General of GCCA. Al Suwaidi also said that the UAE was in talks with the European Union concerning a horizontal agreement on open sky policies instead of talking to individual member countries.