Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc and the chair of the European Parliament’s transport committee, Karima Delli, called on member states and stakeholders in a joint statement on Fridays 13 July to work together to tackle delays in European civil aviation.
The statement’s publication date is deliberate because as the two signatories state, based on a Eurocontrol study, ‘around 50,000 passengers will face delays - every day - of up to two hours in airports across Europe, leading to...