1) The right to fly over a foreign country without landing.
Example: A flight from Zambia to South Africa, flown by a Zambian airline, flying over Zimbabwe.
2) The right to refuel or carry out maintenance in a foreign country without embarking or disembarking passengers or cargo.
Example: A flight from Zimbabwe to the United Kingdom, flown by a Zimbabwean airline, refueling at a Kenyan airport.
3) The right to fly from one’s own country to another country.
Example: A flight from Zimbabwe to South Africa, flown by a Zimbabwean airline.
4) The right to fly from another country to one’s own.
Example: A flight from Turkey to France, flown by a French airline.
5) The right to fly between two foreign countries on a flight originating or ending in one’s own country. Example: A flight from Zimbabwe to Turkey with a stop in Ethiopia flown by a Zimbabwean airline. Passengers and cargo may travel between Turkey and Ethiopia, with no intention to continue to Zimbabwe.
6) The right or privilege, in respect of scheduled international air services, of transporting, via the home State of the carrier, traffic moving between two other States (also known as a Sixth Freedom Right). The so-called Sixth Freedom of the Air, unlike the first five freedoms, is not incorporated as such into any widely recognized air service agreements such as the “Five Freedoms Agreement”.
Example: A flight from Zimbabwe to South Africa, flown by an airline based in Kenya, with a stop in Botswana. This can also be a flight by a South African airline flying under the 5th freedom, allowing codeshare by the Botswana airline which uses the 6th freedom.
7) The right or privilege, in respect of scheduled international air services, granted by one State to another State, of transporting traffic between the territory of the granting State and any third State with no requirement to include on such operation any point in the territory of the recipient State, i.e the service need not connect to or be an extension of any service to/from the home State of the carrier. Example: A flight between Ghana and South Africa, flown by a Zimbabwean airline.
8) The right or privilege, in respect of scheduled international air services, of transporting cabotage traffic between two points in the territory of the granting State on a service that originates or terminates in the home country of the foreign carrier or (in connection with the so-called Seventh Freedom of the Air) outside the territory of the granting State (also known as an Eighth Freedom Right or “consecutive cabotage”).
Example: A flight operated by a South African airline between San Francisco and Cape Town, with a full stop in New York. Passengers and cargo may board or disembark the flight in New York, with no intention to board the flight to Cape Town.
9) The right or privilege of transporting cabotage traffic of the granting State on service performed entirely within the territory of the granting State (also known as a Ninth Freedom Right or “stand-alone” sabotage).
Example: A flight flown between Harare and Victoria Falls by a UAE airline.