Daniel Michaels and Marietta Cauchi, from the Wall Street Journal, interviewed Patrick Ky, SESAR Joint Undertaking Executive Director, on the SESAR programme and on the progress made by airport operations in Europe.

"Europe's airspace—saddled with congestion and inefficiency—has been showing signs of improvement nearer the ground.

At some of the world's busiest hubs, including Paris and Frankfurt, flights and taxiing airplanes are starting to use systems that cut waiting time, fuel consumption and pollution. The measures are as basic as dispatching planes from their gates in the order they will take off, and routing planes to the nearest runway rather than to one across an airfield..."