An independent study to evaluate the potential damage to intra-European airlines and the regions and businesses they serve has been commissioned by the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) and the European Regions Airline Association (ERA).
The two organizations say the study is needed as the European Commission (EC) moves ahead with its plans to amend the current slot allocation regulation. An EC report written in June by U.K.-based consultancy Steer Davies Gleave (SDG) found that changing the rules that allocate slots at Europe’s busiest airports could yield more than $7.1 billion in economic benefit by 2025.
But EBAA and ERA assert that the study was based on the purely theoretical objective of maximizing passenger throughput at coordinated airports by forcing out smaller aircraft and replacing them with larger ones.
The organizations are still searching for a company to do the independent study, says Gamba, with the results released by January.
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