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[email protected] Web www.aea.be Dear reader of the AEA Yearbook, As you may see from the letterhead at Nevertheless, when we airlines are the top of the page, 2004 has been a coping, on an individual basis, with such special year for the AEA. Last upheavals in the marketplace, at an December, the world celebrated 100 industry level we badly need a stable and years since the Wright Brothers first took coherent regulatory platform on which to _________ to the air, which means that AEA has build our strategic planning. been around for half the lifetime of manned flight itself. This is where AEA comes in. In recent years, the graph of our market 2004 is also a year of major change in development has looked a bit like one of the political landscape, as regards our those pioneering flights, tossed up and main regulatory ‘partner’, the EU. On down by turbulence rather than the May 1st it experienced its biggest-ever smooth and steady climb that we have enlargement – and it is not hard to been used to. imagine the importance of air transport in integrating those new markets. As usual, part of this Yearbook describes what happened to our market in 2003.