Brussels, 08/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot will in the USA on 21-22 March to kick negotiations off again for concluding a Trans-Atlantic aviation agreement. Negotiations have been in their death throes since June 2004, at least at a political level, while waiting for the setting up of a new US administration following the presidential elections last November. At the time, EU Member States temporarily decided to end negotiations on aviation with the USA, which in its eyes, did not offer sufficient access to the US market for European airlines and its refusal to authorise cabotage ( European airlines being allowed to fly internally over US territory: see EUROPE 12 June 2004). In an interview in Friday's Financial times, Jacques Barrot, said that, “Questions, like cabotage, which have perhaps monopolised too much attention, are not the major priority”.