EU looking at Internet 'blacklist' of airlines following Venezuela crash
The European Commission is considering publishing an Internet blacklist of airlines and aircraft subject to bans or restrictions in EU member states, EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot said Wednesday. He spoke of the measure to France's BFM radio the day after a chartered Colombian jetliner carrying 152 French passengers crashed in Venezuela, killing all aboard in the worst loss of French lives in commercial aviation history. The European Union blacklist idea is similar to a mechanism already operational in the United States, where would-be passengers can consult a website publishing the names of airlines with relatively poor safety records. "We hope that with the information that will be communicated to the commission we will be able to publish a sort of blacklist," Barrot said, adding that the proposal could become reality by the end of the year if it is passed by the European Parliament.
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