Aviation Intelligence Reporter – October 2007
The regulation of international air transport – vale Chicago?
Emission trading – soon the hot air expended will need its own off-set program
AIS to AIM – Commercialising ATC Data
OECD Agreement on limiting export credits for aircraft – what it could mean for the industry
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click hereThe regulation of international air transport – vale Chicago?
This week, the vice-chairman of Emirates Airlines said what a lot of people have been thinking –
that it was time there was a considered review of the regulation of international air transport. It is
one of the most deeply held and incorrect notions in aviation that the road to aviation regulation
starts and stops with the Chicago Convention, and ICAO; but now, from a number of quarters
comes calls for a review of what is necessary for the industry in the 21st century. Those calls are
arguably a decade later than they should have been, but they are now loud and clear.
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Emission trading – soon the hot air expended will need its own off-set program
And still the debating and lobbying goes on in Brussels. The most important developments this
month include the Working Group of the European Council (the third arm of the European Union
governance – representing the Member States) rejected a Portuguese Presidency of the EU
proposal for a trialogue that would have effectively put onto the fast track any decisions on
inclusion of aviation in Europe’s Emissions Trading System (ETS).
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AIS to AIM – Commercialising ATC Data
Be careful what you ask for, as the saying goes. The airlines have been hammering away at the
air navigation service providers (ANSPs) for several years, asking them to take a more
commercial view of life. So they are, and the law of unintended consequences comes knocking.
A number of ANSPs are looking at the possibility of commercialising the provision of data. That
data has been provided for many years free of charge to chart makers and to others involved in
flight planning, weather planning and so forth. Those chart makers then provide their service to
the airlines and others. If they have to pay for the raw data they use, there is inevitably going to
be an increase in the cost to the airlines that use the services.
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OECD Agreement on limiting export credits for aircraft – what it could mean for the industry
Tucked away in a news item in the middle of the summer holiday season, the OECD announced
that Brazil had joined with OECD club members, including Australia, Canada, Japan, the United
States and the EU, to agree to limit the export credit support available for aircraft. This will have
an intriguing paradoxical effect on the industry following the coming into force of the 2001 Cape
Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Aviation Protocol
18 months ago and the gradual adoption of this Treaty by many countries.
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