REGIONAL AIRPORTS
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union's Committee of the Regions, (which represents regional governments such as Scotland and Catalonia, as well as local councils), has produced a more sophisticated definition of regional airports than merely measuring passenger numbers. Responding to a European Commission call for an opinion on the capacity of EU regional airports, the committee decided to better define them, focusing on connections to large airports and numbers of transit passengers, which shed light on these terminals' roles in air transport.
THE EUROPEAN Union's Committee of the Regions, (which represents regional governments such as Scotland and Catalonia, as well as local councils), has produced a more sophisticated definition of regional airports than merely measuring passenger numbers. Responding to a European Commission call for an opinion on the capacity of EU regional airports, the committee decided to better define them, focusing on connections to large airports and numbers of transit passengers, which shed light on these terminals' roles in air transport.
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