Airports
Eurocontrol Sees Urgent Airport Capacity Need
The agency details its conclusions in a newly-released report.

Without urgent action, the European airport network will be unable to serve the number of flights predicted in the region by 2040, according to a new study by Eurocontrol. Eamonn Brennan, the agency’s director general, said the first five months of 2018 have seen much longer flight delays than previous years. While traffic has increased by 3.4 percent over 2017, en route air traffic flow management delays have risen from .46 minutes per flight to 1.05 minutes per flight. The EU target figure is no more than 0.5 minutes.