This is the first air services agreement between the two countries, but preparations for the agreement began in 2018. Martin Eyjólfsson, Permanent Secretary of State, and Givi Davitashvili, Director of the Civil Aviation Agency of Georgia, signed the agreement.

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The agreement grants broad rights and covers scheduled and charter flights between the two countries without restrictions on the number of flights or destinations, for both passenger and cargo transport.

Air services agreements are important trade agreements that ensure transportation to and from Iceland as well as facilitating access for Icelandic air carriers to international markets.

The Icelandic negotiating team consisted of Pétur Thorsteinsson, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Vala Hrönn Viggósdóttir, Ministry of Infrastructure, and Kristín Helga Markúsdóttir, Icelandic Transport Authority.