ERA TO JOIN FORCES WITH ACI EUROPE TO BEAT CONGESTION
10/4/2008: Bringing together two of Europe’s leading aviation associations, the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) is seeking to work even more closely with the Airports Council International (ACI) EUROPE to address the issue of European airport congestion.
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 European Union member states to take action against the airport congestion problem severely threatening
the future of European aviation.
Mike Ambrose says: “Much attention has been focused on relieving and avoiding congestion in the skies, and
rightly so, 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.”
Olivier Jankovec adds: “The European Union can and must do much more to put the aviation industry in a
condition to secure its licence to grow. This necessarily involves a policy which reconciles aviation growth with
ambitious environmental objectives.”