{"id":122038,"date":"2017-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/by-2030-the-aviation-sector-will-grow-by-40-at-the-european-level\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:30:26","slug":"by-2030-the-aviation-sector-will-grow-by-40-at-the-european-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/by-2030-the-aviation-sector-will-grow-by-40-at-the-european-level\/","title":{"rendered":"By 2030, the aviation sector will grow by 40% at the European level"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The aviation sector will grow by 40% at the European level by 2030, and existing airports will not be able to cope, with a risk of capacity shortage for at least 2 million flights, stated Mihaela Stefanovici, legal expert at Regional Air Services, during the PRIA Aviation conference.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to her, while major airports in Europe face a lack of capacity, small airports struggle with financial resources in the absence of public funding.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>77% of European airports are state-owned, yet they handled only 53% of the traffic.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAt the European level, it is recognized that there is competition between airports. State airports were designed as sources of regional development and benefited from funding. Thus, discrimination in granting funding to airports based on ownership structure was prohibited. In Romania, this provision was viewed with great reluctance, and in the last 10 years, public funding has gone toward state airports,\u201d Stefanovici added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economica.net\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Economica<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What is the projected growth for the European aviation sector?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sector is expected to grow by 40% by 2030, potentially leading to a capacity shortage for at least 2 million flights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What challenges do small European airports face?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Small airports often struggle with limited financial resources due to a lack of public funding, unlike major hubs facing capacity issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is airport funding distributed in Romania?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Romania, public funding has predominantly favored state-owned airports over the last decade, despite EU rules against ownership-based discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aviation sector will grow by 40% at the European level by 2030, and existing airports will not be able to cope, with a risk of capacity shortage for at least 2 million flights, stated Mihaela Stefanovici, legal expert at Regional Air Services, during the PRIA Aviation conference. According to her, while major airports in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2856],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-122038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conectivity"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/transport-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122038"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=122038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}