ERA Highlights Passenger Rights and State Aid as Hot Issues
ERA director general Simon McNamara leads the fight to ensure that proposed changes to European Union rules on passenger rights and state aid do not disadvantage regional airlines. (Photo: Ian Sheppard)
ERA director general Simon McNamara leads the fight to ensure that proposed changes to European Union rules on passenger rights and state aid do not disadvantage regional airlines. (Photo: Ian Sheppard)

The European Regions Airline Association is preparing for a winter of intense lobbying as politicians in Brussels return to their desks this month. The ERA’s new director general, Simon McNamara, has identified new passenger rights rules, airport capacity shortages and constraints on state aid for airlines and airports as the main battleground issues the association hopes to resolve before the European Parliament elections in May next year and the subsequent appointment of new leadership at the European Commission (EC).