Press Release: Commission urges Member States to speed up the construction of a single European sky

The single European sky aims to adjust air traffic management to the needs of a highly competitive civil aviation industry and of all other airspace users. It intends to enhance current safety objectives, optimize capacity and increase overall efficiency. Therefore, air traffic management needs to become more organised at European level. The key to a rational organisation of airspace is integration of management across borders through functional airspace blocks. These should be based on operational requirements – in particular traffic flows – rather than existing national borders. In a Communication, the European Commission expresses its concerns about the progress made to date and fears that the results over the next two years will not be sufficiently robust and beneficial.

European Commission: DG Communication: MEMO/07/104 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/104&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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