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Develop and implement international standards for safety and security
Passengers are bewildered by the array of burdensome, intrusive and inconsistent security measures at airports. Airlines are faced with radically differing costs for security controls among airports. AEA seeks mutual recognition at international level of security standards, and a firm objective should be a One-Stop Security regime – in other words, once a control has taken place, the passengers and cargo should be considered “safe” when transiting to the final destination.
Similarly, safety provisions should be driven by agencies with the clearly defined objective to develop performance based rules which take into account European safety data and objectives and build on the global ICAO standards. The European Aviation Safety Agency should not re-invent the wheel but build its future rules on the heritage of the Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) to ensure that the high levels of safety that European airlines have established over many decades are maintained.
AEA calls upon institutions to ensure that EASA builds on the JAA heritage and EU-OPS, and only develops further rules which have clear safety justification based on European safety data and priorities while ensuring the competiveness of EU airlines in the global marketplace.