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19/08/2005 | 17:10
Kieran Daly, editor of Air Transport Intelligence, an online news service, has dismissed calls for a blacklist of airlines as impractical.
He suggests that if airlines are dangerous then they should be banned and that a blacklist would be difficult to draw up and not help travellers.
Mr Daly told the BBC's 'Wake up to Money' programme that blacklisting certain airlines could lead to tit-for-tat retaliation between countries banning each other's aircraft operators.
"If you were to seriously do this on an organised basis, you would have to create a whole new government department to monitor airline safety all around the world," he said.
The EU transport commissioner, Jacques Barrot, is currently asking for the safety records on European airlines to be made widely available to the public via the internet.
More information could aid travellers but could also end up adding to the confusion surrounding airline safety.
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