Aviation Intelligence Reporter – November 2018
The Aviation Summit: Social Hijack
Social Dialogue and Social Competition
The Revision of Reg 868: Third Time Lucky for the Trialogue
Tourists Want to Have Cake and Eat Cake
Aviation and the Environment: Zigging When It Should Be Zagging
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The Aviation Summit: Social Hijack
There is a moment in world history when you can place Dr Freud, Hitler, Klimt, Stalin, Tito and Trotsky all sipping coffee, reading the newspaper and playing chess at the same stylish coffee shop, in late Hapsburg Vienna circa 1913. They could have talked about the ends of eras, impending doom, revolution, brave new worlds, workers’ rights, the use of gild in painting and what it really means in the subconscious. So to Vienna, for the most recent in the occasional series of summits on aviation; sorry, Aviation Summits. ‘Up to the Next Level’ it proclaimed. It was hosted by the Austrian presidency of the European Union. The great and the good were all invited. The Summit talked about ends of eras, impending doom, revolution, brave new worlds and workers’ rights. Sadly, the use of gild in painting was not on the agenda, but putting a shiny front on what was happening was. What all this means in our subconscious is for others to determine.
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Social Dialogue and Social Competition
It has long been taken as read that that your enemy’s enemy is your friend. But why is that always the case? Surely sometimes, your enemy’s enemy can still be your enemy too. Nevertheless, in these days of peace, love, brown rice and heightened social dialogue, it is still somewhat odd to see a joint declaration from the European Airline Coordination Platform and the pilots’ union, the ECA, and the European Transport Workers’ Association, ETF, calling for a social agenda for European aviation. It was released during the morning of the second day of the Aviation Summit in Vienna.
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CostsThe Revision of Reg 868: Third Time Lucky for the Trialogue
Just as a stopped clock is right twice a day, it is inevitable that every now and then a Brexiteer will say something that is true. At the UK Labour Party Conference in October, one leave voting supporter said she had done so because the European Institutions were ‘a shambles’. She could have had the current trialogue process for the replacement of Regulation 868/2004 in mind. Indeed, ‘shambles’ is a very polite word for what is happening. The entire process is flawed. Another polite word.
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Tourists Want to Have Cake and Eat Cake
Cross-cultural experiences are big business, according to the latest research from the European Tourism Commission on long haul visitors to Europe. The new study found that cheaper flights and a rise in web-based applications has encouraged more Japanese, Indian, Chinese, and American travellers to tour Europe. And not just bits of Europe. More than half of these tourists visit at least two countries before heading home: no surprise given the distances involved both in getting to Europe and then once here, how close and how well connected the countries are. And now, with modern technology, travellers are increasingly planning their vacations themselves, fuelled by applications like American TripIt, Chinese Qiongyou, and Indian TripHobo.
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Aviation and the Environment: Zigging When It Should Be Zagging
October is a big month for the aviation industry’s environmental people. It is their turn for A Summit. Every year the industry gathers in Geneva, at the invitation of ATAG – IATA’s diffusion line – to tell itself what a great job it is doing in the environment area. That great job includes things like avoiding any real change in reducing emissions, installing a system through ICAO verging on meaningless and then in what can only be called a masterstroke, actually rendering it meaningless by allowing off-sets to be spent on petroleum-based fuels. This is genius. It works on the grounds that oil is a natural product and thus could be low emission, one day. If enough money is spent on research. When environmentalists talk about the circular economy, this is not what they have in mind.
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Tags: Business Aviation, Climate Change, European Aviation, European Tourism, European Union