The Five Freedoms of Aviation

Why HN readers recommended it

HN links it whenever airline route rules, cabotage or loopholes come up, as a concise background explainer.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Wendover Productions

Topic

aviation regulation

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I was rolling my eyes at the subtitle. The article devolved from there. Some great (sometimes indirect) information on why the 747 and to a lesser extent the A380 are being phased out, from my new favorite YouTube channel, Wendover Productions: The Economics of Long-Haul …

• Norwegian is technically an EU airline because despite the name they're also headquartered in EU countries. This is so because being EU-based they're free to use all EU airports to base flights out of, which they use to good extent to make flights between the …

• The five freedoms of aviation are: 1) The right to fly over a foreign country without landing. 2) The right to refuel or carry out maintenance in a foreign country without embarking or disembarking passengers or cargo. 3) The right to fly from one's own …