High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The freedoms of the air are a set of commercial aviation rights granting a country`s airline(s) the privilege to enter and land in another country`s airspace. Formulated as a result of disagreements over the extent of aviation liberalisation in the Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944, (known as the Chicago Convention) the United States had called for a standardized set of separate air rights which may be negotiated between states but most of the other countries involved were concerned that the size of the U.S. airlines would dominate all world air travel if there were not strict rules.