Abstract :
TWENTY YEARS on, the European single market in air travel is truly an EU success story, resulting in cheap short-haul flights across the whole continent. But now the European Commission has highlighted a grievous failure in aviation reform: the inability of many member states to drop their national air traffic control prerogatives for a regionalised system. The deadline was 4 December. If that had been implemented, the single market in aviation would have been set to work even better.
