Den nuværende situation er resultatet af, at forskellige medlemsstater i Unionen bilateralt har indgået såkaldte open skies-aftaler med USA, hvilket i realiteten er det samme som en intern opsplitning af det europæiske marked, og af, at det har været umuligt at omstrukturere de europæiske selskaber for at få en størrelse, der gør det muligt for dem at opnå en rimelig konkurrenceevne på internationalt plan.
The current situation is the result of the bilateral signing by various Member States of the European Union and the USA of the so-called "open skies agreements" which, in fact, are resulting in an internal fragmentation of the European market and making it impossible for European companies to restructure in such a way as to give them sufficient capacity to compete at an international level.