European White Paper offers some hope for ailing aviation sector but still favours rail

At the end of Mar-2011 the European Commission published its White Paper on Transport, outlining plans to operate aviation in "an environmentally sustainable way" over the next 40 years. It is a weighty document and one that rubs shoulders with individual members’ own policy documents, for example the UK’s airport strategy White Paper, which is (over)-due at some time in 2012.