European Regions Airline Association

Riga. The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) is holding its Air Safety Work Group meeting in Riga, Latvia, on Wednesday 30 June 2010. The event is hosted by airBaltic airline, a member of ERA and the winner of the ERA 2009/10 Airline of the Year Gold Award.

EU Regulation 261/2004 is threatening the economic viability of Europe's vital airline industry

Airlines should bear no financial burden for the care of passengers resulting from events that are outside their control and the law that obliges them to do so must be amended before routes become unsustainable and jobs are lost.

The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) today welcomed the UK government's announcement postponing any decision to change Britain's air passenger duty, which taxes each passenger once per journey, to an aircraft based tax, which risks penalising the many millions of British passengers who need to make a connection between flights.

The USA Department of Transport has published proposals to increase protection for its air passengers. These proposed rules do not include any of the disproportionate and unbalanced standards that have been imposed on Europe's airlines since 2005.

3 May 2010

Prior to tomorrow's extraordinary meeting of the EU Transport Council, the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) calls upon Europe's Member States to act swiftly to deliver compensation to airlines following the volcanic ash crisis, in a manner which is transparent, which ensures a level playing field for all airlines, and which compensates only those losses incurred as a result of the disruption.

Declaration of the Organisations in the Air Transport Sector on EU Air Accident Investigation Regulation - Future Passengers' Safety at Stake

20 April 2010

Three airline associations – ELFAA (European Low Fares Airline Association), ERA (European Regions Airlines Association) and IACA (International Air Carrier Association) today called on the European Commission and European Member States to give a firm commitment to support airlines affected by the crisis caused by the volcanic ash dispersion.

14 April 2010

"Work with us constructively or risk further deterioration in the EU's competitiveness," Europe's regional airlines tell Regulators.

06 April 2010

Intra-European airlines out-perform Europe's major airlines in most challenging year on record

The heads of the world's regional airline associations today issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to the industry-wide global sectoral approach to aviation and climate change.