Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elisabeta Molnar Author-Name-First: Elisabeta Author-Name-Last: Molnar Author-Email: elis@remtours.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania Title: Optimization of European Air Transport - Generous Intentions, Difficult Implementations and Controversial Results Journal: CACTUS - The Tourism Journal for Research, Education, Culture and Soul Abstract: The paper's theme is research within the fields of socio-economic and human priority aimed primarily to stimulate partnerships in priority areas such as planning, balanced development, polycentric, based on transport systems. Important element that focuses on all research undertaken, consider policies and strategies offered by the EU in transport, and launching a new strategic concept (NCS), the European air routes optimization, allowing quick and easy movement into desired areas. In addition, it was found that many airports need a substantial upgrade. Scientific results and conclusions of this research are to draw some color pan European airline to optimize connections between Eastern and Western Europe. The industry is shifting gears in the recovery cycle. Growth is slowing towards normal historical levels in the 5-6% range. Relative weakness in developed markets is being offset by the momentum of economic expansion in developing markets. We see a strong end to 2010 that boosted the year’s profit forecast to $15.1 billion. Slowing traffic growth is in line with our projections for a reduced profit of $9.1 billion in 2011, that’s a 1.5% margin. Keywords: Air transport, Airlines alliance, Airport, Passengers, Performance Classification-JEL: L 93, M 10, R 41 Creation-Date: 2011 Year: 2011 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 File-URL: https://cactus-journal-of-tourism.ase.ro/Pdf/vol3/Molnar.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bum:cactus:cactus-2011-6