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Aviation Intelligence Reporter December 2024 – January 2025
- A Crying Wolf Tax
- Interlining on the InterRailwayLines?
Passenger Rights? Everybody is in Listening Mode - Pilots Redo Asymmetric Survey About Asymmetric Employment Supply and Demand in Demand Management
- Putting the AI into Travel and Tourism
- Party Like It’s 1944
Friends
As befits the festive season, which I think starts tomorrow – advent calendars to the ready – this bumper Christmas issue includes something for the kiddies. Yes, a lift out games section for the all the family. If all the family are aviation geeks, anyway. Play the games to your heart’s content.
In the meantime, we also consider some other issues that are perhaps less frivolous. We would like to suggest a new revenue stream for governments – they should tax the crying of wolf. That might sharpen some minds, and tongues. We also look at the proposal put forward at the confirmation hearings by the new Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, for a single European train booking and ticketing system, at least for pan-European travel. That would be wonderful. Have you ever tried to book a train ticket across a European border? It’s a web of online deception and/or arcane procedures. You almost always have to go to the station so that someone who knows how to navigate the system can do it for you. But, and this is a big but, it will be harder than it might at first appear. The airlines know a lot about it, because it is called interlining.
Passenger rights are also on the agenda again. We look at what that might mean. There are vested interests interested in the status quo, so watch this space. But if that is a bit of a downer, take heart, because our old friends the pilots are having another stab at their famous asymmetric contract survey. The last time around was years of entertainment, so let’s see what comes out this one.
Demand management is the newest boogieman for the industry and everyone is gearing up to resist it, as hard as they can. Too late!! In the spirit of Christmas, and Christmas pantos in particular, we all need to shout ‘Look behind you!’ We are already getting demand management by stealth. At the same time, AI is coming along to save/scare/replace us all. We took a quick look at that too. Finally, we were asked to consider what life might be like after the US election. Peak liberalisation maybe behind us, but we should still party. And who better to help us than the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince?
I would like to thank all of you for your encouragement and support this year. It has been very welcome. I wish you and your families a very happy Christmas and new year break, and I look forward to talking with you all in 2025.
As ever, we welcome your feedback,
Regards
Andrew
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