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EC proposes re-opening non-essential travel to the EU
5 May 2021: The European Commission has put forward a proposal on reopening non-essential travel from outside of the EU. Once the proposal is adopted by the Council - hopefully in the coming days - it will be for Member States to implement the measures set out in the non-binding recommendation.
ERA welcomes this proposal since it is in line with what we were aiming at:
Commission and stakeholders discuss the recovery of European aviation
5 May 2021: The European Commission and aviation industry reconvened six months after the publication of the Aviation Round Table report on the recovery of European aviation and exchanged on the policy priorities for the next 12 months. ERA Director General Montserrat Barriga presented on behalf of the aviation industry associations.
Alternative event 2021
Alternative event 24-25 November 2021, London
Alsie Express to be first domestic route in Denmark to use new, more sustainable jet fuel
As of 6 May, flights between the Danish cities Sonderborg and Copenhagen will be using more sustainable jet fuel. Alsie Express is thereby the first operator of a domestic route to use fuel made from organic matter such as the food industry’s waste cooking oil, which reduces the carbon footprint of its jet fuel consumption.
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Registration for the ERA General Assembly will open in May 2022.
ICCT paper on tankering and SAFs
19 May 2021: The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has published a working paper on the 'Potential tankering under an EU sustainable aviation fuels mandate'. It analyses the potential for tankering to undermine the environmental objectives of an EU SAF mandate, which is currently being prepared by the European Commission under the ReFuel EU initiative.
Fit for 55 package updates
19 May 2021: Fit for 55 package and ReFuel EU further delayed. The European Commission has published an updated timeline for the publication of the Fit for 55 and ReFuel EU proposals, which are now expected to be published on 14 July 2021 (see attached download). The planning is indicative.
SESAR Deployment Manager 2021 annual monitoring exercise
2 November 2021: The SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM) is mandated by the European Commission to report on the progress initially with the implementation of the Pilot Common Project and later the progress on Common Project One.
Surveillance Radar Overloads
On 10 May, EUROCONTROL published a data snapshot of transponder interrogations taken from 26 April 2021, which highlighted risks to the overall ATC picture presented to controllers.
The latest data snapshot looks at the overload on the use of surveillance radar, demonstrating the need for optimisation of the surveillance infrastructure in order to support improvements in safety, emission, and overall cost of the system.
This one page report can be accessed here.