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Aviation Intelligence Reporter – March 2012


The European ETS. How did we let this get to this?
Aviation Spectrum – lots of things are making waves
Impasse in India
Wagons neatly circled at SITA
EuroCanada: A new avenue to reform?


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The European ETS. How did we let this get to this?

Outer space is not in ICAO’s mandate, but one can only hope the Council of ICAO has seen the movie Apollo 13. It recreates the aborted moon mission and the work that went into bringing the space capsule safely home. The mission command team gather to direct the tiny capsule once around the globe, giving it vital momentum and speed, necessary for it to return to the earth’s atmosphere safely. There was no margin for error. ‘This is going to be a disaster,’ says one naysayer to the mission commander. ‘No.’ says the commander, ‘This is going to be NASA’s shining hour’.

Aviation Spectrum – lots of things are making waves

Here is a sentence you will not often see: it has been an interesting month in the aeronautical spectrum arena. There have been at least three different developments that need comment, all of them significant to the air transport industry. They are seemingly unrelated but have at least one thing in common: all have been equally ignored by the air transport industry.

Impasse in India

As the mature business aviation markets in the US and Europe have stagnated, much hope has been invested in demand from the growing BRIC economies. Evidently this is materialising; before 2008 the vast majority of new bus-av aircraft deliveries went to North America and Western Europe. Now the majority go to new markets.

Wagons neatly circled at SITA

Towards the end of last year, a group of former SITA employees sent its directors a letter alleging why they thought SITA’s complex structure and current management had brought the industry’s telecoms cooperative to a very serious cash crisis. The directors acted appropriately. They treated the anonymous claims with public contempt whilst quietly reviewing the issues raised.

EuroCanada: A new avenue to reform?

Ever since the European Union established an Open Aviation Area (OAA) in 2003, removing national and bilateral restrictions on airline ownership and control within Europe, it has been promoting expansion of the OAA beyond Europe. A true OAA with the USA remains intractable, the USA being unlikely to lift its own national ownership and control provisions. But an OAA encompassing Europe and Canada could be a game changer, not just for the North Atlantic but the world.

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