Western Europe Outlook: LCCs expand, along with full service airline labour challenges

Europe's economy, particularly that of the Eurozone, has yet to find a comfortable cruising speed seven years after the global financial crisis. Nevertheless, air travel has continued to grow at historically healthy rates. For 2015, RPK growth for airlines based in Europe looks set to be somewhere approaching 6% for the year, similar to 2014, but a little less than the global average for 2015.