In the past year there have been calls from some member states and from their nationalised carriers for measures that 'will slow down or go back on the liberalisation measures, on the grounds that they were, in some way, responsible for an alleged Crisis in the Aviation Industry.

I have sought the debate to discuss the current Crisis in the Aviation Industry.

One or two controversial issues have cropped up at the same time as the Crisis in the Aviation Industry.

My Lords, if 50 per cent of the air reaching passenger cabins were unfiltered and contaminated, as the noble Baroness suggests, I have a feeling that there would be a major Crisis in the Aviation Industry and that very few planes would take off.