Europe transport chief: Think bigger on EU-US Open Skies
Europe and the US should broaden their Open Skies transatlantic aviation agreement so that airlines can operate more like other businesses, unshackled by ownership and control rules, the head of the EC’s transport directorate said. Henrik Hololei, the EC’s DG for mobility and Transport said the US-EU Open Skies agreement, signed in 2007, had irreversibly changed the transatlantic market for good and was an achievement that needed to be cherished and respected. “We should deepen our cooperation,” he said, adding that one of his “dreams” was to see a day when the full vision of that agreement was realised in a truly open market between the world’s two most advanced and developed aviation markets. “Let’s start thinking big,” he said. “If we do nothing we will go backwards.” <br/>
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Europe transport chief: Think bigger on EU-US Open Skies
Europe and the US should broaden their Open Skies transatlantic aviation agreement so that airlines can operate more like other businesses, unshackled by ownership and control rules, the head of the EC’s transport directorate said. Henrik Hololei, the EC’s DG for mobility and Transport said the US-EU Open Skies agreement, signed in 2007, had irreversibly changed the transatlantic market for good and was an achievement that needed to be cherished and respected. “We should deepen our cooperation,” he said, adding that one of his “dreams” was to see a day when the full vision of that agreement was realised in a truly open market between the world’s two most advanced and developed aviation markets. “Let’s start thinking big,” he said. “If we do nothing we will go backwards.” <br/>
