Les Etats membres doivent cesser de tergiverser sur le ciel unique européen (Airline Associations: Member States must stop procrastinating on Single European Sky)
Four airline associations - AEA, ELFAA, ERA and IACA1 - today echoed the plea from the European Commission, calling on Member States to stop procrastinating on the Single European Sky project and start finally delivering on their obligations.
The current economic climate makes the Single European Sky, which will improve the efficiency of European Air Traffic Management (ATM), more important than ever.
Today, the fragmented system is having an enormous detrimental impact on airlines, their passengers and the environment in terms of time, fuel burn and money. Member States are trying to escape their Single European Sky commitments, and today the Commission has instructed the majority of Member States to revise their performance plans.
Airlines consider the Europe-wide targets set by the Commission as a bare minimum to implement the long-overdue improvements of the European ATM system. However, Member States have already watered down these plans, and only a few come close to fulfilling the agreed performance targets.