Aviation Intelligence Reporter – June 2012
Aviation Regulation – Making the spelling add up
Unbundling the Airport Package
Fuel up – Costs down?
Distribution Costs – Sharing the pain
Regional Airports – You want something done, you do it yourself
ATM – All roads lead to Rome
EBACE 2012: Flying the Return to Growth?
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click hereAviation Regulation – Making the spelling add up
Everyone has a theory about regulation. Ronald Reagan, no big fan of big government, sardonically defined government thus: ‘If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidise it’. The CEOs of Europe’s legacy carriers, under the aegis of the Association of European Airlines, got in on the act at their annual meeting in late May. They met with the Vice President of the Commission for Transport, Mr Siim Kallas. How Mr Kallas must welcome the gratuitous advice he gets from these meetings.
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Unbundling the Airport Package
The Commission’s airport package is working its way through the legislative process. The bits about noise and ground-handling upset some, to some extent, but not enough to derail the process. The current Presidency of the Union, the Danes, thinks these drafts can make their way to the Council for agreement before the summer.
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Fuel up – Costs down?
You may remember that last month the CEO of Delta Airlines, Richard Anderson, complained the airline industry never gets any government support or subsidies. Turns out it was not a complaint; it was a call to arms. As he made that statement in Washington DC he must have known his company was about to make one of the most interesting moves the industry has seen for some time, whilst pocketing a US$30M subsidy into the bargain.
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Distribution Costs – Sharing the pain
In early, July IATA is convening a meeting of all interested parties with the aim of wresting back control of the distribution process, and costs. In the tradition of new, non-anti-trust immunised IATA, the meeting is open to all airlines and those suppliers that are ‘Industry Partners’. It promises to be a barn-burner.
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Regional Airports – You want something done, you do it yourself
The European Parliament ‘own initiative’ procedure allows an MEP to get an item of particular concern onto the parliamentary agenda. It is a good means to chide the Commission into starting a review. It has been curiously under-used as a lobbying tool, but its value is starting to be recognised.
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ATM – All roads lead to Rome
The ATM world is now looking ahead to the next CANSO AGM, in Rome. Given the upheavals this year, it promises to be interesting. In addition to the internal issues CANSO faces – it is currently recruiting a DG – a number of industry issues are likely to fill the halls with discussion. Three are of particular interest.
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EBACE 2012: Flying the Return to Growth?
The return to growth for the European business aviation sector looks like it needs one of Bombardier’s ultra-long range aircraft to make the distance. The best that could be said at EBACE 2012 was that the recovery which was two years off in 2010 is still at least two years off.
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