Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-03-Speech-2-039"
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"Mr President, Mrs de Palacio, ladies and gentlemen, here once again we have been hearing all kinds of reasons why we might not be able to switch to a single European solution with regard to the use of airspace. The reasons given have often been what would appear to be concerns about safety but in fact this is all about selfishness and the fact that we want to preserve the
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It is hard to imagine a more sensible and more logical project than the rational and coordinated use of European airspace, especially as its use and the number of passengers are set to increase from here on. Why should an aircraft travelling from Helsinki to Athens or from Warsaw to Dublin zigzag over Europe with the pilot having to do the same things many times over? This should be seen as just one exercise.
The result of the current practice is delays. Finnish Members of Parliament no longer fly from Helsinki to Strasbourg via Paris because the flights are always late or cancelled, or luggage goes missing. Now we fly to Frankfurt or Zurich direct and then travel by car for three hours. That is better than using European air traffic services.
This is also a very expensive system. In the United States of America, as we well know, they can operate double the number of flights for the same amount of money. Who pays the bill in society when we act inefficiently? It is always the poor. The rich can afford to look around for some alternative.
It is also vulnerable. The tragic accident that happened in Switzerland was certainly not due to the fact that the equipment there was poor or that there were not enough people on duty. We have to put this question: why must Switzerland, a small country, have its own airspace? If a
based on international borders is the right one, we ought to establish centres in Andorra, San Marino and the Vatican. Actually, the Vatican is already is a sort of heavenly air traffic control centre – a spiritual one. There they remind us that the heavens belong to us all, as something we all share."@en1
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