Olivier Jankovec critiques the Letta Report for neglecting essential aviation challenges, emphasizing the necessity for a balanced strategy to EU air transport transformation for sustainability and resilience.
BRUSSELS – The high-level report on the way forward for the EU Single Market ready by former Italian Head of Authorities, Enrico Letta and offered final month, goals at offering strategic route for the way forward for the EU, forward of the brand new 5-year political cycle resulting from start with the forthcoming elections of the European Parliament and the designation of a brand new European Fee.
On 3 Could, Olivier Jankovec, Director Normal of ACI Europe, shared his perspective on the report. Titled “The Letta Report & Aviation: A Missed Alternative” Jankovec’s commentary (accessible right here) backs the report’s ambition and lots of of its suggestions to deepen the EU’s Single Market – however deplores the truth that the report solely speaks about “streamlining air transport” and leaves the important thing challenges confronted by the sector largely unaddressed.
Recalling the truth that by offering unrivalled connectivity inside Europe and past, aviation successfully allows the free motion enshrined within the EU Treaties and thus makes a necessary contribution to financial and social cohesion, Jankovec expressed important considerations that the Letta report had addressed aviation’s decarbonisation problem completely by the prism of reforming Air Site visitors Administration and connecting all of Europe’s capitals by Excessive Pace Prepare.
Jankovec wrote: “There may be nothing [in the report] on the important thing situation of manufacturing and delivering reasonably priced Sustainable Aviation Fuels throughout airport community; Nothing on methods to assist the event and deployment of zero-emission plane (…); Nothing on the necessity to guarantee aviation and airports are factored in vitality transition insurance policies (…); and nothing both on methods to finance aviation’s inexperienced transition. The silence of the Letta report on all these points is obscure as addressing them shall be important to take care of the socio-economic advantages of aviation and particularly cohesion. If something, they reveal that what the Single Market actually wants is remodeling EU air transport, not merely streamlining it”.
Jankovec’s op-ed additionally factors to the necessity for the Single Market to deal with aviation’s resilience and capability challenges and provides a sensible and data-driven perspective on the alternatives to shift mobility demand from air to rail. His feedback underscore the necessity for each, a extra complete and a extra balanced strategy to aviation throughout the Single Market: one which prioritises sustainability, resilience, competitiveness and cohesion – connectivity from a transport mode-neutral perspective.
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