Single European Sky
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October 2012
Single European Sky delayed: Pursue goals more vigorously
Implementation of the Single European Sky is among Europe's largest climate protection projects. Yet the once ambitious project is by no means exhausting the potential for optimisation – that is already quite clear by now. Implementation is also stalled - participating countries urgently need to show more drive.
December 2011
Chancellor Merkel urges implementation of Single European Sky
Among other European politicians, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has also been regularly calling for implementation of the Single European Sky, whose completion has been on hold for decades now.
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October 2011
Air traffic control in Europe: Enormous challenges for the future
The Single European Sky is Europe’s most important project in aviation policy. The goals are to increase timeliness and reduce carbon emissions through direct flight routes and greater cost efficiency. Yet implementation continues to drag on; member states have fallen far behind the targets they set for themselves.
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Setting the course: EU aviation must remain competitive
The pressure from competition in global aviation continues to grow. To be able to compete in the global marketplace, European airlines need markedly better framework conditions. On issues such as the Single European Sky, ground services, or slot allocation, the EU and member states must in the coming months take decisions that will set the direction for the future of EU aviation.
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Cost efficiency
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Air transport
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Single European Sky: More air traffic - fewer emissions
Minus 10 percent emissions, plus 300 percent capacities - those are convincing arguments to finally implement the Single European Sky and to equip air traffic management with cutting-edge technology. Policy makers are called on to advance Europe's most important transport and climate policy endeavour - and to ensure a fair burden-sharing.
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Strong partner
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Good things come to those who wait, and wait, and wait ”¦
European air traffic management is being freed too slowly from the straightjacket of national competences. Year over year, this is costing billions of euros and millions of tonnes of avoidable carbon emissions.
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Volcanic ash cloud: Lessons learned?
Security enjoys top priority in aviation. Yet the authorities utterly overestimated the risks stemming from the volcanic ash cloud, resulting in GDP losses totalling in the billions. The EU and nation-states are urgently called on to revamp crisis management provisions.
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Europe deep in the red
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Pressing ahead with Single European Sky despite opposition
French air traffic controllers are staging opposition to a Single European Sky. On February 23, they began a strike lasting several days against plans to merge the air traffic control services of six European countries – France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Benelux countries – into what has been dubbed a functional airspace block, a cornerstone of the Single European Sky.
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Single European Sky: Declaration of intent must be followed by action
By 2012, EU air navigation services are to operate on the basis of nine airspace blocks. So far, the participating countries have signed an as yet nonbinding declaration of intent in November 2008 for merely one single block. Much remains to be done to finally breathe life into the Single European Sky following decades of discussion.
FABEC – Heart of EU Aviation
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- September 2008
Single European Sky: Achieving breakthrough on second attempt
The EU member states must end their delay tactics in the reorganisation of European air navigation services. The proposals of the EU Commission must be approved by the end of 2008. Otherwise, the detours airlines are compelled to fly will continuing producing roughly 16 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually.
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- February 2008
Single European Sky: EU member states called to task
The EU Commission put it succinctly: Implementing the urgently needed Single European Sky represents a technical challenge: “The actual hurdle, however, is of a political nature.” While the Schengen Agreement has made possible a Europe without borders on the ground, the member states have for years been able to assert their national interests in the sky over the EU. Creation of a competitive, uniform EU air traffic control system remains a distant dream.
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- October 2007
EU air traffic control: Regulatory framework urgently needs to be improved
The fragmentation of air traffic control in Europe costs 3.5 billion euros annually and harms the environment, resulting in a wasteful use of EU airspace. A true Single European Sky could reduce carbon emissions by up to 12 percent. An EU expert group has now presented important recommendations – we’ll give you an overview.
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- July 2007
CO2: Air transport conserving fuel and reducing emissions
Lufthansa is exhausting all options to conserve fuel, both for environmental and economic reasons. Steadily falling CO2 emissions are the result. And the airline is not alone in its efforts: Giovanni Bisignani, Director General of the airline association IATA, hopes to achieve a green airline industry with zero emissions by 2050.
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- June 2007
Climate protection: A global challenge
EU partial solutions are useless in effectively advancing climate protection. For example, the issue of emissions trading must be addressed globally. Only in this way can non-EU partners be included in the solution. Lufthansa is meanwhile investing billions in fuel-efficient aircraft – and the list of tasks for policy makers has been set out.
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- December 2006
Climate protection: Single European Sky more effective than Emissions Trading
European aviation could avoid 8-12 percent of its CO2 emissions in the near future. How? By finally giving the Single European Sky an effective structure. Instead, European politicians are continuing their preparations to include civil aviation in an isolated Emissions Trading System. Why expand bureaucracy yet again when the Single European Sky would lead to significant cuts in emissions in the short-term?
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- July 2006
Climate protection in civil aviation: Market economy instead of regulation
By continuously investing in state-of-the-art aircraft, Lufthansa has cut its kerosene consumption per passenger by 30 percent since 1990 – now, additional regulations and burdens on airlines threaten the very efficiency that is so decisive for climate protection.
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- June 2005
Common Framework for Fair Competition
EU airlines call for further-reaching liberalization, borderless airspace and lower costs
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Airlines earn the lowest profits in the air transportation industry
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Insurance premiums for airlines are substantially higher in Germany than in the U.S.
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- June 2005
Innovation Instead of Activism
Rolling back subsidies and implementing the Single European Sky will reduce emissions most efficiently
Lufthansa supports the EU research project CARIBIC.
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