Originally Posted by
joejones
Yes, but still, there are no domestic tags that have local traffic rights -- the only cabotage that goes on at the moment, AFAIK, involves LCCs that have bases outside their home country and are simply flying point-to-point domestically (e.g. Jetstar in New Zealand, Ryanair in Italy). Not saying that it's impossible, but it isn't done.
IIRC at least one of the mid eastern carriers does Australia-NZ and vv. I guess it's a fifth freedom route but it still seems odd in light of the cabotage prohibitions.
TWA had a tag leg (IIRC sometimes flown with a much smaller plane but the same flight number) from CDG to MUC but wasn't allowed to serve local traffic, even for someone who flew TWA TATL to CDG and did a Paris stopover before continuing to Munich.
IIRC NW had intraAsian flights from NRT to a few other airports in Japan that were basically treated like international flights. I don't know whether local traffic was permitted.