Airlines & Airports Issue Stark Warning to European PMs on Inconsistent Approach to Travel Restrictions
Europe’s airline and airport associations have written to Prime Ministers, Transport, Health and Home Affairs Ministers across the European Union, Schengen and the UK, setting out deep concerns over their failure to implement coherent and science-based approaches to travel restrictions. The letter, sent jointly from Airports Council International Europe (ACI EUROPE), Airlines for Europe (A4E) […]
ACI Europe extends expected recovery timeframe to 2024
Airports body ACI Europe does not expect passenger traffic to regain 2019 levels until 2024 – a year later than in its previous projection. Demand for air travel in Europe is returning “at a slower pace than we had hoped for”, states ACI Europe director general Olivier Jankovec, and this has prompted the trade association […]
European aviation unites in calls for support for green recovery from COVID-19
With the gradual restarting of passenger air transport in the coming weeks, leaders from over a dozen air transport associations representing Europe’s aviation sector today issued an urgent call for EU leaders to prioritise specific decarbonisation initiatives in their allocation of future COVID-19 recovery funding. European aviation continues to reel from the sudden collapse of […]
IATA Welcomes EU Suspension of Slot Use Rules
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) welcomed the announcement by the European Commission (EC) granting the temporary suspension until June 2020 of the 80-20 “use it or lose it” rule for airport slots. The decision reflects the unprecedented situation facing the airline industry. However, granting the suspension only until June is the very minimum the […]
EU calls on ICAO to agree to long-term aviation climate plan
The European Union (EU) has called on ICAO to agree at its assembly in September to a “long-term goal” to address the aviation industry’s increasing carbon-dioxide emissions. The plea follows a Feb. 15 announcement by ICAO—a United Nations body—that it has reached agreement on how airlines can use alternative fuels to reduce their offsetting requirements […]
EU, UK issue more no-deal Brexit guidance for air transport
Both the European Union (EU) and the UK have announced measures designed to smooth air transport connections in the event of the UK departing the bloc in six weeks’ time (Brexit) without a deal. A distinct difference in attitude toward this situation was evident in the two camps’ Feb. 15 announcements; the EU talked of […]
Qatar y la UE, cerca de un acuerdo para la competencia leal entre aerolíneas
Qatar y la Unión Europea (UE) están cerca de cerrar un acuerdo sobre el transporte aéreo que debería unir a ambas. Así lo ha asegurado Akbar al-Baker, consejero delegado de la aerolínea Qatar Airways. «Este acuerdo ofrecerá una plataforma en común para las aerolíneas tanto de Europa como de Qatar para entenderse mutuamente de una […]
Advierten colapso en aviación por cierre del Gobierno en EU
Empleados del transporte aéreo advirtieron que el cierre parcial del Gobierno en Estados Unidos, que entra en su quinta semana, podría provocar un colapso en la aviación comercial. “Nos preocupa cada vez más la seguridad de nuestros miembros, nuestras aerolíneas y al público que viaja debido al cierre”, dijeron líderes de la Asociación Nacional de […]
Airlines call on EU governments to tackle air traffic management problems
Airlines for Europe (A4E) is urging the EU and national governments to take swift and decisive action to reform Europe’s Air Traffic Management (ATM) system as 2018 is shaping up to be the worst year for ATC delays and flight cancellations in nearly a decade. “Europe’s Transport Ministers are meeting on December 3. They have […]
El futuro de Boeing está bajo amenaza por guerra comercial entre EU y China
El intercambio de bombas arancelarias entre las mayores potencias económicas de la actualidad pone en peligro al fabricante estadounidense de aviones, mientras Airbus se frota las manos. El futuro del fabricante de aviones estadounidense Boeing en China puede estar en peligro por la guerra comercial entre Beijing y Washington, una perspectiva que preocupa al sector […]
