IATA urges Single European Sky by 2012

IATA has called on the EU to deliver a Single European Sky (SES) by 2012.

“After decades of talks and little action, failure to implement an effective SES is Europe’s biggest environmental embarrassment. In 2007, this failure resulted in 21 million minutes of delays and 468 million kilometres of unnecessary flight. This wasted 16 million tonnes of CO2,” IATA director general and CEO Giovanni Bisignani told European Air Transport Summit members in Bordeaux.

He added his support to proposals that European air space be combined into nine cross-national functional airspace blocks (FABs) which he said would increase system capacity by 70%, reduce average delays to one minute or less, cut user costs by 50% and reduce the environmental impact per flight by 10% by 2020.

Source: Routes News