-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 July 2001 22:53, Reese wrote:
At 10:43 PM 7/11/01, Tim May wrote:
One real world example of such.
Learn to use a search engine. Search on the obvious terms, like "airlines overflight payments."
The first such hit you will find in Google, one of hundreds, is:
"FAA ESTIMATES CUBA OWES US$1 MILLION FOR OVERFLIGHT FEES- Information obtained from an inquiry to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the United States Department of Transportation by the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council shows that Republic of Cuba government-operated Cubana Airlines and Republic of Cuba government-operated AeroCaribbean Airlines were invoiced approximately US$1 million by the FAA for the period May 1997 to 31 January 1998 for overflight fees."
Is this enough for the "one real world example"?
Is that datum from cubatrade.org or cubaonline.org? How about from a real website?
Or, like many quibblers, do you claim that "one example" is not enough?
I specified one. Since you seem to cite the FAA interalia though, I shall require the one example be from the FAA and not from some pro-Cuba organization.
Reese
It's a moot point anyway, but for the record, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 states that no nation may claim jurisdiction or territory beyond the limits of Earth's atmosphere, which is spelled out in a separate treaty as being 100km altitude above mean sea level. So even if airlines do pay fees for overflying nations - which seems rediculous but no more so than thousands of other laws - it wouldn't apply to satellites. - -- Matt Beland matt@rearviewmirror.org http://www.rearviewmirror.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7TpkLBxcVTa6Gy5wRArHqAKDlapdTAl3TuHaVclhlw4mskK8hhgCghVYu H3uRFj17aSGyGk4UH1s60eE= =Nv9K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----