ERA and ACI to work together on airport congestion
10.04.08
The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) is to work with the Airports Council International (ACI) Europe to campaign for governments and the EU to address the issue of European airport congestion. The move brings together two of Europe’s leading aviation associations, the organisations said in a statement.
Meeting at the ERA Regional Airline Conference in Malta, ERA Director General Mike Ambrose and ACI Europe Director General Olivier Jankovec agreed that cooperation is needed to lobby European regulators and EU member states to take action against the airport congestion problem, which they say is severely threatening the future of European aviation.
Mr Ambrose said: ‘Much attention has been focused on relieving and avoiding congestion in the skies, but we must not forget that without equivalent capacity on the ground, any progress we make in the air is severely compromised, if not wasted entirely.’
Mr Jankovec added: ‘The EU can and must do more to put the aviation industry in a condition to secure its potential to grow. This involves a policy that reconciles aviation growth with ambitious environmental objectives.’
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