Editing Transport in Europe (section)

==Air transport==
[[File:CDG-aerialview.jpg|thumb|[[Charles de Gaulle Airport]] in [[Paris]], [[France]]]]

Despite an extensive road and rail network, 43% of international travel within the EU was by air in 2013.<ref name="intra-EU flows">{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Tourism_statistics_-_intra-EU_tourism_flows|title=Tourism statistics - intra-EU tourism flows |publisher=Eurostat|date=June 2015|access-date=18 March 2016}}</ref> [[Air travel]] is particularly important for peripheral nations such as [[Spain]] and [[Greece]] and island nations such as [[Malta]] and [[Cyprus]], where a large majority of border crossings are by air.<ref name="intra-EU flows"/> A large tourism industry also attracts many visitors to Europe, most of whom arrive into one of Europe's many large international airports – [[List of the busiest airports in Europe|major hubs]] include [[Heathrow Airport|London Heathrow]], [[Istanbul Airport|Istanbul]], [[Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport|Paris-Charles De Gaulle]], [[Frankfurt Airport|Frankfurt]] and [[Amsterdam Airport Schiphol|Amsterdam Schiphol]]. The advent of [[low cost carriers]] in recent years{{when|date=November 2017}} has led to a large increase in air travel within Europe. Air transportation is now often the cheapest way of travelling between cities. This increase in air travel has led to problems of airspace overcrowding and environmental concerns. The [[Single European Sky]] is one initiative aimed at solving these problems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurocontrol.int/ses/public/standard_page/sk_ses.html|title=The Single European Sky|date=13 January 2009|publisher=[[European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation]]|access-date=18 February 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729121951/http://www.eurocontrol.int/ses/public/standard_page/sk_ses.html|archive-date=29 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Within the European Union, the complete [[freedoms of the air]] and the world's most extensive [[cabotage]] agreements allow [[budget airline]]s to operate freely across the EU.<ref name="havel">{{cite book|last1=Havel|first1=Brian F.|title=The Principles and Practice of International Aviation Law|date=31 March 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107020528|pages=50–53|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C8H2AgAAQBAJ&q=chile%20cabotage&pg=PA50|access-date=26 December 2014}}</ref> Cheap air travel is spurred on by the trend for regional airports levying low fees to market themselves as serving large cities quite far away. [[Ryanair]] is especially noted for this, since it primarily flies out of regional airports up to 150 kilometres away from the cities they are said to serve. A primary example of this is the [[Weeze]]-[[Skavsta]] flight, where Weeze mainly serves the [[Nijmegen]]/[[Kleve]] area, while Skavsta serves [[Nyköping]]/[[Oxelösund]]. Ryanair however, markets this flight as [[Düsseldorf]]-[[Stockholm]], which are both 80–90 kilometres away from these airports, resulting in up to four hours of ground transportation just to get to and from the airport.