Originally Posted by
kiwiandrew
For airlines from EU member states things are slightly different don't forget that over time the individual bilaterals between EU member states and other countries are being amended as they come up for renegotiaton to prevent discrimination on a carrier basis - for example last year the New Zealand - UK bilateral was amended to state that any EU carrier can operate UK-New Zealand services , it may take a few years but eventually these sort of agreements will be in the majority and then ownership will be less of an issue so long as it remains within the EU.
Many have already been renegotiated already.
Incidentally , how did JK manage a few years ago when they ran a small number of longhauls ops ( IAD , HAV and EZE IIRC ) because they are majority owned by SK which is definitely not a Spanish customer - the bilaterals didn't seem to stop them then .
The nationality clause allows the other party to object to the designation of an airline which is not owned and controlled by nationals of the other party, but they do not have to. Cuba and Argentina were probably not bothered that JK was controlled by SK and did not feel the need to object. Ditto with the US. The US has generally not been too bothered about this issue, as long as the country the controlling airline comes from has an open skies agreement with the US. Had JK been controlled by BA rather than SK, then the US would most certainly have objected to JK flying to IAD.