Did you know that according to a 2015 study by the consulting company InterVISTAS, air service liberalization leads to a 16 percent increase in air traffic, which in turn supports approximately nine million additional jobs in aviation and aviation-related industries?

(Source: blogs.state.gov)

Today the United States and the European Union (EU) mark the 25th anniversary of the first U.S. Open Skies agreement, with the Netherlands and the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-European Union Open Skies Agreement. These landmark achievements – and 25 years of the overall U.S. Open Skies policy – have benefitted the civil aviation markets of the United States and Europe, and have contributed a market-based international aviation system that minimizes government intervention and facilitates opportunities for increasing travel, commercial and business exchanges, investment and trade, and tourism.