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Single sky plan gets boost from transport MEPs

By Khaled Diab

The European Parliament’s transport committee has backed ‘single sky’ proposals to create a unified European air traffic control system, despite protests from unions that the initiative compromises safety for profit.

 

July 2002

 

Dutch Liberal MEP Marieke Sanders-Ten Holte, the issue’s rapporteur, said yesterday’s vote was “an important step forward”.

 

She added: “I remain confident that the project will deliver dividends in terms of efficiency, but even more importantly, in terms of safety improvements.”

 

Single sky aims to merge existing national and regional airspace blocks into larger areas supervised by fewer control centres.


The Parliament will vote on the Sanders-Ten Holte report at its plenary session in Strasbourg in September.

 

 

 

 

This article appeared in the 11-17 July 2002 edition of the European Voice. © Copyright 2002 The Economist Newspaper Limited. All rights reserved.

 

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