Open Skies at last. NOT!

So let me get this straight, the European Union Transport ministers have approved a new aviation agreement with US authorities, great for transatlantic air fares perhaps.

But hidden in the small print – US airlines can now for the first time fly between European cities competing directly with European airlines. The European airlines can now do the same, well not exactly; it seems we have to wait till 2010 for that privilege, how Open Skies is that?

I wonder how Jacques Barrot, the European Transport Commissioner think that this is a good’ agreement? Oh! and by the way, I thought that we were worrying about the effect of airplane emission contributing to global warming! Perhaps Jacques Barrot, knows what side his bread is already buttered on!