Traduction de «Vol en classe économique pour passagers en attente » (Français → Anglais) :

standby economy flight

As well as raising the amounts of financial compensation to take account of economic charges, it proposed extension of the regulation to non-scheduled flights, inclusion of new forms of ticketing and information on the rights of passengers denied boarding.

75. Believes that in times of increasing financial difficulties for numerous Europeans and ongoing austerity policies, Parliament should show an example of restraint by reducing its travel costs; asks the Bureau to create conditions for making savings of 5% in all kind of travel expenditure including delegations of committees and interparliamentary delegations in full respect of the Statute for Members and its implementing measures; believes that a reduction in business flights by Members of Parliament would help to achieve such savings; requests that 15% of the travel appropriations be placed in reserve pending a report by the Secretary General of Parliament to be delivered to the Bureau and the Committee on Budgets by 31 March 2012; c ...[+++]alls for such a report to examine the feasibility of measures to ensure the utmost efficiency of Members' travel with a view to making recommendations for potential budgetary savings by considering all proposals and resolutions which Parliament has already adopted on this question, by presenting proposals to reduce its number of business class flights, encouraging the purchase of economy / flexi-economy class airfares, ensuring a proper treatment of the Frequent Flyer Points and revising the rules of the Members' Registry opening hours, in particular on Fridays; expects that the appropriations for the travels are reduced in 2012 and in the following years till the end of the legislature; suggests that savings in institutional visits have to take into account the primacy of pluralism over proportionality when defining the delegations' composition;

Anyone who believes that Economy Class is adequate to his needs on short-haul flights should naturally fly Economy.

Pending the possible adoption of international rules, the Council and European Parliament limited in March 2014 the coverage of the EU ETS to flights within the European Economic Area for the period from 2013 to 2016.