The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) has launched a rival long-term air transport policy document to the European Commission's white paper as it intensifies its campaign for better regulation. The ERA has proposed the creation of a pan-European transportation safety board (TSB) to mirror the US NTSB, writes Justin Wastnage.
Launching A Vision for European Air Transport at the ERA's general assembly in Vienna last week, ERA director general Mike Ambrose said: "We cannot dispense with regulators, so instead we will give them advice to focus their efforts on the consumer." The association has led lobbying in Brussels recently against new air transport regulations. The new document covers the EC's European Transport Policy for 2010 white paper's topic areas of competition, environment, infrastructure and safety.
Meanwhile, Association of European Airlines president Vagn Sorensen says it will issue an action plan "almost the same as the ERA one" to "launch political debate about air transport".
Source: Flight International
