Aviation Intelligence Reporter – October 2008

Written by Admin-AIR-NEw on . Posted in 2008, AIR


Sing along to another chorus of the Aviation Regulation Song: Re-, de-, do and do-whop
AIS to AIM: Can aero-nautical information lead the way to better regulation?
Airports start to make standards too
Blacklist to get blacker
Spectrum: airlines to pay for riding the waves?

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Sing along to another chorus of the Aviation Regulation Song: Re-, de-, do and do-whop

TOne of the beauties of ICAO is that sense of déjà vu as you arrive at the mighty, early Stalinist-style portals. Once inside you go even further back in time. After a day of meetings in ICAO you can almost yearn for the modernism of its 1930s facade. A week at ICAO can be the longest month of your life, unless you throw away any sense that there are things like telephones, e-mail and even aircraft outside, in the real world. One wouldn’t wonder if the drafting of the Nicene Creed was not dreadfully different to discussions surrounding whatever negotiations are currently underway inside ICAO.
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AIS to AIM: Can aero-nautical information lead the way to better regulation?

With a focus that would have put the Nicene Creed draftsmen to shame, notwithstanding the IATA sideshow and the end of civilisation as we know it unfolding on Wall Street, the ICAO conference ground on, regardless. Buried in the papers are a number of very good contributions.
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Airports start to make standards too

One of the interesting things to note at the recent ICAO conference on airport and air navigation charges was the emerging role of trade associations. CANSO, recently given observer status by ICAO, had a very good conference. The ACI was also prominent. More interesting again was that the ACI has decided that it is the appropriate body to make standards relevant to airports. There are two things of interest in that: first, that ACI now thinks that it has the weight, membership numbers and gravitas to make standards that will actually become standard; and secondly, that it is moving in to what was previously thought to be IATA’s role.
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Blacklist to get blacker

In part in reaction to the tragic SpanAir crash in Madrid early in September, the EU Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani announced this month that the Commission plans ‘to look closely at some European airlines’. Mr Tajani was making a pilgrimage to the European Parliament Transport Committee to report on updates in Community law on air safety, in the wake of the SpanAir accident. He promised that a minimum number of annual inspections would be made in each Member State and that checks on Europe’s airline would be tightened up.
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Spectrum: airlines to pay for riding the waves?

You have until the end of October to comment on the UK Ofcom plan, first reported in these pages a year ago, to charge NATS (and thus the airlines) for the use of spectrum used to provide air traffic control services in and above the UK. This will apply to all flights in UK airspace, not only to those to and from the UK. Ofcom is proposing calculating a proxy price for the spectrum, based on the price that others may be prepared to pay for it, working on the theory that one only values the things one has to pay for, and that commercial imperatives will provide an incentive for efficiency.
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