Regionals still not sold on ‘third package’
ERA member airlines continue to express concern about proposals for a significant overhaul of regulations governing the region’s deregulated air-transport

ERA member airlines continue to express concern about proposals for a significant overhaul of regulations governing the region’s deregulated air-transport area. Any European Commission (EC) changes to the so-called “third package” rules agreed upon by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Transport Ministers will likely go into effect either next year or in 2009, according to ERA.

If adopted as proposed by the EC’s energy and transport directorate-general, the changes would remove outdated and unused clauses, introduce new constraints and consolidate the text into a single regulation. Nevertheless, according to ERA air transport policy director Andrew Clarke,  there remain seven key areas of particular concern to regional operators: