The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will liberalize civil aviation among the ten member countries, but the ruling to be imposed next year applies only in their respective capitals, an Indonesian official has said.

"With the liberalization, airliners from member countries can carry as many passengers as they can," director of civil aviation Tri Sunoko was quoted Thursday by leading news website Detikcom as saying.

He noted that before the new ruling was imposed, airliners from Singapore can carry up to 24,000 passengers a week from Jakarta, while the quota for Indonesian airliners is limited to 27,000 passengers a week from Singapore.

Sunoko said member countries not prepared yet for the liberalization were given time until 2015 to ratify the new ruling.

ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Source: Xinhua