Aviation Intelligence Reporter – March 2009

Written by Admin-AIR-NEw on . Posted in 2009, AIR


The Interconnectedness of Things
The Stimulus Package – OK sure, but what is in it for me?
Bye American (oh, and bye United and bye Delta, and byeContinental…)
You say stimulus package; they say State aid
Elvis Costello was right: What is so funny about peace, love and understanding?
Aviation, climate change and Copenhagen – a first look at therunners and riders
Olympic Airlines – A Marxian interpretation
During our flight this evening, we will be serving an allergen laden meal…

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The Interconnectedness of Things

Physicists forever strive to find the grand interconnected theory of just about everything, as a sort of Holy Grail. They have been smashing electrons together, investigating pieces of string and otherwise searching throughout the universe for years. Turns out they were looking in the wrong place.
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The Stimulus Package – OK sure, but what is in it for me?

If it is true that every cloud has a silver lining, it stands to reason that every silver lining must have a cloud. The global financial crisis is a storm of the very highest order, and it is generating clouds that are redefining black; but there was at least a hope that some good would come of it for aviation.
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Bye American (oh, and bye United and bye Delta, and byeContinental…)

As we saw with the ‘Buy American’ provision in President Obama’s stimulus bill, it is getting increasingly difficult to rule out protectionist provisions sneaking into all the frantic work governments around the world are doing. It seems that the general rule is that the more vocal a political leader is in praising global trade, the sooner a protectionist provision will hove into view.
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You say stimulus package; they say State aid

There is only a very fine line between governments giving their economy a bit of boost and what the Commission is likely to find to be State aid. A cheque to a national airline has been held, time and time again, to be State aid – just ask Olympic and Alitalia. But time is the operative word here – by the time the European Court of Justice has ruled against you, the election is over.
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Elvis Costello was right: What is so funny about peace, love and understanding?

Many years ago, the English singer Elvis Costello had a cult hit with a song called ‘What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?’ A good question, you might agree.
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Aviation, climate change and Copenhagen – a first look at therunners and riders

As we briefly mentioned in last month’s Aviation Intelligence Reporter, the European Commission has now released a communication setting out its position ahead of the Copenhagen conference to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto protocol. Air transport gets a special mention: the Commission makes clear that it will push hard to end the special exclusion that air transport currently enjoys.
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Olympic Airlines – A Marxian interpretation

Karl Marx once said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Did he have Olympic Airlines in mind when he wrote that? Hard to believe that he didn’t.
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