What Are the Freedoms of the Air? A Flight Attendant’s Guide to Fifth and Seventh Freedom Flights

Pointify is tracking this new route for the points-and-miles community.

Every time Emirates floats a new route like Milan to Lima, or a government tries to lure an airline back with an unusual route proposal, the same phrase gets thrown around: freedoms of the air. It’s a term that gets used constantly in aviation news, although there’s rarely an explainer of what these freedoms are.…