Heathrow is installing them, France and The Netherlands have agreed to buy them, and Italy has pledged to have them installed within three months, but the upper levels of the European Union (EU) bureaucracy is having second thoughts about full-body scanners. The word from the top is, “Not so fast.” The EU has no European-wide policy at this point.
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OneWorld Alliance faces strong European Union headwinds. Keystone Resort announces free season pass for anyone who gets married there. Las Vegas casinos see no new additions for at least a decade.
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The recent DOT tentative approval of the Continental linkup with United, Lufthansa and the other airlines in the Star Alliance is facing bureaucratic opposition. The Department of Justice and the European Union, in bureaucratic speak, are saying, “Go slow.”
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Earlier we reported that the European Union and Canada have reached a deal that will open up the aviation market to each other. Now the European Union Transport Ministers and Canada are set to sign the agreement. This means that Canadian and European airlines have the freedom to fly between any Canadian airport and any European airport.
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While America’s passenger railroads listen to passengers and add “quiet cars,” US airlines are considering permitting inflight Internet phone use. Ned explores the problems of inflight phone communication.
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Effective January 2012, all airlines using European airports will eventually need to purchase carbon permits to comply with European Union law. This includes airlines from the United States.
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The European Union and Canada have reached a deal that will open up the aviation market to each other, according to EU officials. This frees up ownership rules and direct flights.
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Full body scanners, which enable security personnel to see through clothes, have been rejected by the European Union at the member airports for now. Germany says it will not participate with “this nonsense.”
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The European Union announced today, for better or worse, guidelines that will permit use of mobile phones on flights.
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U.S. security officials are at odds with some of their European counterparts over a disputed U.S. visa-waiver program that would allow Washington to negotiate with individual countries on some matters while dealing with the 27-nation bloc as a whole on others.
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