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"en.20121023.45.2-486-562"2
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"Despite the current economic crisis, demand for air travel increased in the EU by 9.3 % in 2011 with a 4 % rise forecast for 2012, only slightly under the International Air Transport Association’s 5 % long-term average forecast. If the Asia-Pacific economies are included, the global rise in passenger demand currently exceeds 6 % annually, with cargo demand increasing by 5 %. However, the impact of the crisis cannot be ignored, as underlined by the Association of European Airlines, whose Secretary General Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus in a recent interview forecast operating losses of EUR 2 billion for the whole sector. This combination of rising demand and falling operating profits makes implementation of the new Single European Sky (SES) legislation imperative, since corrections and restructuring are unavoidable (for example, to take account of the tendency for supply to move progressively towards European Low Fares Airline Association carriers). It seems incredible that the airlines should still be operating mainly on a pre-Union scheme based on the national economies. I therefore voted in favour of the report."@en1
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