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Airlines ‘in denial’

October 15, 2008

A senior official from the Commission’s air transport unit has told an aviation conference that airlines are in denial over their environmental responsibilities.

Peter Bombay told a meeting of low-fares airlines that the European aviation sector had to make a success of the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme and work with the Commission on reducing emissions from aviation. Bombay told the airlines to ‘take a more proactive, realistic and more focused approach to the debate’.

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