Transport
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Infrastructure: Romanians take to the skies
29 October 2009PresseuropGandul -
Belgium: Antwerp bridge project toppled
19 October 2009PresseuropDe Standaard -
Air transport: Support our knackered pilots
6 October 2009PresseuropDe Morgen -
Shipping : Estonia turns its back on the sea
29 September 2009PresseuropPostimees -
Czech Republic: ČSA focuses on former Soviet Empire
22 September 2009PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
Airlines: Jobless pilots to work for free
8 September 2009PresseuropLidové noviny -
Air travel: Low-cost pie in the sky
2 September 2009De Standaard Brussels -
Air travel: Freedom without frills
28 August 20091 Cafebabel.com Paris -
Trade: Shipping industry drowning in financial woes
14 August 20091 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Air security: Black list, grey area
7 July 20092 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Civil Aviation: Brussels blacklists dustbin airlines
6 July 2009PresseuropABC -
Motorways: The juggernauts are coming
2 July 2009PresseuropDie Presse -
Airlines: SkyEurope going for bust
23 June 2009PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
Slovakia: SkyEurope flip flop
4 June 2009PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Diplomatic slip: Poland gone but not forgotten
29 May 2009PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Mobility: MEPs not just a cell out
26 May 2009PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
The collapse of SkyEurope is yet another proof of the fragility of low-cost airlines, which are often founded by enthusiastic but inexperienced entrepreneurs, and lack the sufficient size and capital to take on the competition, reports De Standaard. 
Budget travel is a reality for modern Europeans, a part of everyday life. Accounting for its environmental impact may affect the as yet fragile common European identity it lends to flying citizens. 
The global economic crisis is wreaking havoc on shipping: prices, along with demand, have collapsed and ports are filling up with fleets of empty freighters. The crisis has fueled cut-throat competition and not all companies will survive. Hamburg, with a quarter of the world's shipping activity, is particularly feeling the pinch. 
The blacklist of dangerous airlines compiled by the EU in 2005 should have cleared the skies of flying dustbins. However, the recent Yemenia Airways Airbus disaster reveals major shortcomings in the how airlines are monitored, Spiegel observes. - previous
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