A US-EU Open Aviation Area that would include a relaxation of US foreign ownership and control restrictions "is not going to happen in the near term," US Department of State Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Affairs John Byerly cautioned recently, adding, "I don't see any changes coming to cabotage, for example." Daniel Calleja Crespo, director of the European Commission Air Transport Directorate, emphasised at the conference that second-stage negotiations "have to succeed by 2010." … [Read more...] about US hints it will not relent on cabotage issue with EU