{"id":46078,"date":"2022-06-27T09:53:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-sign-air-transport-agreement-with-canada\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:36:50","slug":"rwanda-sign-air-transport-agreement-with-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-sign-air-transport-agreement-with-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda sign Air Transport Agreement with Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement was signed on Saturday 25th June 2022 as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) drew to the end in Kigali. <\/p>\n<p>The agreement signed between Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, dr. Vincent Biruta and his counterpart of Canada, M\u00e9lanie Joly; will see Air Canada and RwandAir allowed to use each country\u2019s airspace. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe signing of the Canada-Rwanda Air Transport Agreement will encourage tourism and even more business between our two countries,\u201d M\u00e9lanie revealed via Twitter handle after signing the agreement.  <\/p>\n<p>On the same day, Canada signed similar agreements with Cameroon in Kigali.  <\/p>\n<p>These agreements will facilitate the development of Canada\u2019s air transport market with both partners by Canadian carriers and, respectively, carriers of Rwanda and Cameroon. <\/p>\n<p>These ATAs are expected to improve connectivity to new and existing destinations, which benefit passengers and businesses. <\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that Canada\u2019s ATAs with Rwanda and Cameroon offer an open and flexible regime for code-share services. <\/p>\n<p>The signature of the ATA by Canada and Rwanda\/Cameroon, followed by its ratification, will provide legal certainty and predictability for air carriers and further strengthen the bilateral air transport relationship with Rwanda and Cameroon. <\/p>\n<p>These ATAs were applied administratively pending signature and ratification.<\/p>\n<p>Air Canada was established in 1964. It currently operates flights to more than 200 destinations.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has signed similar agreements with over 110 countries across the world. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43087 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/canada-2.jpg\" alt=\"The agreement will see Air Canada operating flights to Rwanda. Photo Reuters \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Government of Rwanda and Canada have signed Air Transport Agreement (ATA) expected to boost connectivity between both countries.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46078"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46078"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}