United States, Guyana Sign Open Skies Agreement

The United States and Guyana have signed an agreement establishing an Open Skies air transportation relationship between the two countries. The United States has over 100 Open Skies partners around the world and they warmly welcome Guyana as the newest member of this vital international partnership.

Before today, U.S. Guyana aviation relations had been governed by the 1946 Air Transport Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom. The Open Skies agreement, which enters into force upon signature, establishes a liberalized aviation relationship that permits unrestricted air service by the airlines of both countries.

It eliminates restrictions on how often carriers fly, the kind of aircraft they may use, and the prices they charge. It facilitates transportation, trade, and tourism between the two countries and demonstrates our shared commitment to an open, competitive, market based international economic system.

All of this will help to open markets, create new jobs, and make it easier for people to travel, interact, share information, and build businesses together.

The Guyanese Diaspora, with its extensive links of family and friendships, is likely to be one of the primary beneficiaries of this agreement, given that they make up such a significant element of the expanding travel between Guyana and the United States.
Within the Caribbean, Guyana joins Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and St. Kitts as Open Skies partners. We look forward to expanding these partnerships around the world.

Open Skies agreements have powerful benefits fewer government restrictions, more competition, more jobs in the air and on the ground; more people trading, exchanging and interacting; cheaper flights, more tourists, new routes to new cities.