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Aviation unites to challenge EASA fees

The entire aviation world has mounted a concerted challenge to EASA over its scale of fees and charges, which are characterised as inexplicably high and are acting as a major drag on the aviation industry in Europe. IAOPA has joined organisations representing every facet of regulated aviation on the EASA Advisory Body in writing to the Chairman of the EASA Board of Management expressing concern at the damaging effect of EASA’s fees. The letter singles out for special attention the wholly disproportionate charges levied on general aviation and demands that they be reduced through a programme of cost-cutting at EASA. 

The text of the letter, addressed to Mike Smethers, Chairman of the EASA Board of Management, has been agreed by organisations as diverse as Airbus, the International Air Transport Association, the Association of European Airlines, Rolls Royce and the European Business Aviation Association as well as IAOPA. It indicates that EASA’s overheads are running out of control at a time when economies of scale should be bringing them down and points out that EASA’s labour charge – €246.38 per hour – is wholly out of scale with labour costs in the industry and twice as high as those of other aviation regulators. It also calls on Europe to accept more bilateral agreements which mean EASA would not spend money re-certificating equipment which has already been acceptably certificated by third countries.

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