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Air passenger transport in EU reaches record high
By EUobserver
New figures for air passenger transport from Eurostat show a record high 1.043 billion passengers were travelling by air in the European Union in 2017, up by seven percent compared to 2016. Intra-EU transport represented almost half (47 percent) of total air passenger transport in the EU. The figures came while EU scientists and diplomats gathered in Katowice, Poland to reduce climate emissions.