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contributions from EUROCONTROL and the user community.
The Commission’s DG TREN identifies benefits such as
enhanced transportation efficiency and skilled employment,
and gives the project consideration with the Economics Unit.
By using more efficient routes across European airspace,
SESAR expects to raise airspace capacity and reduce
environmental impact. The Performance Review Commission
report published in April 2006 identifies savings between
E880 million to E1,400 million as a result of direct routes, a
saving of 20-30 per cent on en-route costs. “The single sky is
an example of how we can save costs through improved
efficiency in route structure,” says Egerer.
Regulation has a key role to play in realising the White
Paper objectives, and at present, aviation is subject to many
unconnected, regulatory bodies. The European Aviation Safety
Agency (EASA) is intended to widen its remit to include
airports and air traffic management, however, funding this
change is hampered by the fact that some of these functions
are already covered by existing regulatory bodies.
Ground handling is another area where progress has been
disappointing. AEA Manager Information, David Henderson,
believes the opening up of the ground handling market has
reached the halfway point and stopped. “We really need the
process to be picked up and carried through.” There are many
instances where independent ground handlers do bid, and
win, competitive handling contracts, but there are also
Member States that have yet to fully implement this
legislation. A review of liberalisation measures is specifically
included in the Commission’s action points for 2006.
“We believe there should be an airports strategy which
looks at the big picture,” urges Henderson. “There are no easy
answers like developing regional hubs and diverting traffic
away from existing facilities. We argue that the hubs are
crucial not only to the network airlines, but to the whole
industry. It is through hubs we have the global networks,
which facilitate the process of European competitiveness.”
This is becoming more apparent as EU membership grows.
The new developing economies need an effective hub
structure and this requires a policy and investment to
promote the airports as part of a wider aviation strategy. The
EU transport policy is part of the revised Lisbon Agenda,
which focuses on growth and jobs against a backdrop of
sustainable development.
The Commission document calls for “an improved EU
framework combining regional and cohesive policies, and
adaptive framework for better and smarter charging for the
use of infrastructure and differentiated solutions to deal with
particular problems.” It recognises the need for change, but is
less specific on how it can drive this change.
The AEA maintains there are still no concrete solutions to
address airport congestion five years after the publication of
the White Paper. Even in times of reduced traffic, the system
suffers from a lack of adequate airport capacity. EUROCONTROL
forecasts that by 2010 over 20 European airports are likely to
face a capacity shortage, and even taking into account a 60
per cent capacity increase in the network by 2025, Europe’s
leading airports will be unable to accommodate 17 per cent of
the total demand for air transport.
Commission vice-president in charge of transport, Jacques
Barrot, has said he intends to step up efforts to make aviation
more efficient and greener. In September he launched an
initiative on the future of aviation regulation in Europe and is
driving several strategic reviews of energy usage in light of
high fuel prices. While transport continues to account for 30
per cent of total energy consumption in Europe, of which
aviation represents 4 per cent, improving its performance in
environmental terms remains a major challenge.
This article was commissioned by AEA.
“We believe there
should be an airports
strategy which looks
at the big picture”
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Recent fuel price increases have put pressure on airlines’ bottom lines. Anne Paylor looks at
the impact of these rises on the industry and what the airlines are doing to counter them
s fuel prices continue their inexorable climb, airlines
continue the hunt for ways to control costs, but admit
they are running out of options. That said, however,
they are learning to live with the reality that fuel is now an
increasing part of their cost base, and are taking some
comfort from the fact that high fuel costs have not sent the
　
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