Agreement Expected To Defuse U.S.-Qatar Open Skies Tensions

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will finalize an agreement Jan. 30 between the U.S. and Qatar in which state-owned Qatar Airways will commit to be more financially transparent and to declare it has no plans to operate fifth-freedom flights to the U.S. The anticipated accord comes after the U.S. State Department in December told U.S. airlines it will not formally re-open negotiations on open skies agreements with Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, but instead will engage the Gulf ...