Air plain

This morning the Committee’s plenary session held a thematic debate on air transport in the presence of the Czech Deputy Transport Minister, Roman Kramarik. The Committee’s rapporteur, Jacek Krawczyk, is, as you’ll know from previous posts, a former commercial airline pilot and he clearly knows what he’s talking about. Two themes were stressed in the debate. First, air travel is one of the safest forms of transport and getting safer. Second, paradoxically, accidents will still happen. At the end of the debate our President called for a minute’s silence in memory of the victims of the Air Bus disaster. There, but for the grace…