Aviation Intelligence Reporter – May 2007

Written by Admin-AIR-NEw on 1st May 2007. Posted in 2007, AIR

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Introduction

The US-EC ‘open skies’ agreement has been signed in Washington, and remarkably, whilst this might seem to mean that regional issues would become increasingly relevant, leaving broad international consensus behind, suddenly, all eyes are turning to ICAO. It seems that there is a need for international consensus between regional blocks, just as there was a need for consensus between States. ICAO has its next tri-annual General Assembly in September and all sorts of items are on the agenda – including environmental issues, air traffic control and possibly spectrum allocation. At the same time, there is corridor talk of a small group of interested parties, including IATA and CANSO forming a ‘ginger group’ to agitate for widespread reform of ICAO or even a replacement to the Chicago Convention.
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