!!!  ELFAA Airspace Manifesto  !!!

(26 March 2008)

ELFAA WELCOMES Jet2.com AS A NEW AIRLINE MEMBER (22 April 2008). ELFAA is pleased to announce that Jet2.com will be joining ELFAA, becoming the 12th airline member of the Association  >>> view...

ELFAA WELCOMES EC OFFICIAL STATEMENT: ALL ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES SHOULD BE REVOKED UPON INCLUSION OF AVIATION IN EU ETS (16 April 2008). ELFAA welcomes the statement by Olivier Onidi, EC Head of Unit, Internal Market, Air Transport Agreements and Multilateral Relations, at a recent industry gathering in Malta, that upon the inclusion of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, all other environmental taxes on aviation should be dropped  >>> view...

ELFAA WELCOMES CLICKAIR AS A NEW MEMBER (14 April 2008).  ELFAA today annouces a new airline member, clickair, bringing the membership to a total of 11 airlines. >>> view...

ELFAA CALLS FOR A RADICAL RE-DESIGN OF AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - ELFAA’s Airspace Manifesto launched today in Brussels by Michael O’Leary, CEO Ryanair (26 March 2008).  ELFAA today launched its Airspace Manifesto, a high level vision statement for the future of the European Air Traffic Management (ATM) and its regulatory framework.  >>> view...

LATEST STATISTICS CONFIRM ENVIRONMENTAL CREDENTIALS OF LOW FARES AIRLINES (16 January 2008).  ELFAA released today updated statistics for its 10 member airlines. Highlights of the updated statistics for 2007 are: Passengers carried: 120.7 million. Year-on-year growth (passengers): 19%. Average load factor (percentage of seats filled): 82%. Number of aircraft: 495. Average fleet age: 4.6.  >>> view...

European Parliament misses an opportunity to introduce robust regulation of dominant airports (15 January 2008).  ELFAA criticised today’s decision of the European Parliament on the proposed airport charges directive. The Parliament missed an important opportunity to introduce robust and effective regulation of dominant airports. In particular, it expressly allowed airports to pre-finance future facilities from charges on existing users, and to choose between a single-till and a dual-till business model.  >>> view...

ELFAA offers a cautious welcome to EU Council of Environment Ministers decision on Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) (21 December 2007).  ELFAA has supported the proposed inclusion of aviation in EU ETS, subject to the design of the scheme being such as to incentivise and reward environmentally efficient performance and penalise bad environmental performance.  >>> view...