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The designated airline of each Contracting Party shall have the right to employ, in connection with air transport of passengers and cargo, any surface transport to or from any point in the territories of the Contracting Parties or third countries. The designated airline may elect to perform its own surface transport or to provide it through arrangements, including code-sharing, with other surface carriers, subject to the laws and regulations in force in the territory of the Contracting Party concerned. The intermodal services may be offered as a through service and at a single through price for the air and surface transport combined, provided that passengers and shippers are informed as to the facts concerning such transport.