Certain financial and economic aspects of air transport operations
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly Debate on 27th April 1967 (6th Sitting) (see Doc. 2217, report of the Economic Committee). Text adopted by the Assembly on 27th April 1967 (6th Sitting).
The Assembly,
1. Thanks the European Civil Aviation Conference for its Reply (
Doc. 2146) to the Assembly's Report on "Certain Financial and Economic Aspects of Air Transport Operations" (
Doc. 1734) ;
2. Greatly appreciates the painstaking and detailed studies made by ECAC in preparing that reply ;
3. Welcomes this new proof of the close and continuing relations between ECAC and the Council of Europe ;
4. Believes that, despite the many uncertainties as to the problems that could be posed by the introduction around 1970 of aircraft with a load-carrying capacity of up to 500 passengers, it is overwhelmingly desirable in the interests of greater European co-operation in the air transport field that some continuing study, examination and discussion should be commenced now as to whether it would be advisable either for economic, for safety or for noise reasons to limit maximum aircraft size and, in the affirmative case, whether it would be advisable to draw up a Convention to this end. Should on the contrary the outcome of this examination show that such limitation of size is not desirable, the study should then be directed to resolving how such problems - in particular those of an operational character relating to capacity offered and to route structures as well as those relating to facilities e.g. to the adequacy of existing airport facilities for handling, processing and conveying to the town terminal as many as 500 passengers at a time - could best be resolved in a European framework ;
5. Expresses its belief that ECAC is the ideal forum within which such action should be undertaken, and requests ECAC after studying the accompanying report to inform the Consultative Assembly in due course of what steps it proposes to take in this respect.
