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"Madam President, I would like to thank Mr Degutis for his excellent report and the work he has done over recent weeks.
Apart from flight delays, the most complaints that I receive against airlines concern the way that they lure people with what appear to be low fares and conveniently tell them the true cost only at the very end of the process. Low-fare airlines have perfected this art over recent years.
Now, not only will the customers see the true price, but also the security taxes levied by national governments will have to be highlighted separately. This transparency has to be a good thing, and I hope it will end what has been over recent years an exercise in deceit by some airlines which try to con the travelling public into believing they are buying a very cheap ticket when the opposite is true.
I must also make mention of the report’s tightening of the ‘wet lease’ rules for aircraft outside the EU and its commitment to ensuring that social dumping is not acceptable when airlines lease in aircraft – again, something that has happened in the past.
There are concerns that the number of ‘wet leased’ aircraft from outside the EU is at an unacceptable level, compromising not only our social laws but also our safety laws and undermining our own EU civil aviation industry, and our rapporteur has addressed this.
This is an excellent report for consumers, airline staff and European aviation. It is so good, in fact, that I am pretty sure airlines will already have started to look for any loopholes – again, another thing that has happened in the past and, again, another art that our airlines have perfected."@en1
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