Aviation Intelligence Reporter – October 2009


The regulated call for more regulation – it can only mean one thing
Welcome to the new unit – Infrastructure
Promise to reduce your personal carbon emissions to zero, by 2100
Business aviation: a commodity with a glamorous history too?
SES – it spells EASA
Reforming Eurocontrol – big job that


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The regulated call for more regulation – it can only mean one thing

Tucked away in the most recent IATA financial forecast is one of the most egregious examples of special pleading. That is since perhaps the previous IATA financial forecast. Apparently all that is stopping the European airlines from flying back to ruddy good health is none other than that bastion of liberalisation and world-leading destroyer of over-regulation, the European Parliament.

Welcome to the new unit – Infrastructure

It is probably the cows grazing in the halls of the European Commission that make you think that August is a month when nothing, but nothing, is happening in Europe. But either the cows can work blackberries or somewhere from the south of France, and those other idylls of rest and recuperation preferred by our rule makers, the need for being seen to be doing something just occasionally overcomes the need for another peeled grape.

Promise to reduce your personal carbon emissions to zero, by 2100

Does anyone doubt that aviation is losing the battle in the environment stakes? The old three prong strategy – deny, reject, complain – just seems to be losing its mojo.

Business aviation: a commodity with a glamorous history too?

It was always thought that the very light jet (VLJ) concept was going to shake up the air transport industry. It was not clear how, exactly, it would do so. Original estimates of clogged air navigation routes, flights-to-your-doorstep like a 1950s vision of the year 2010 and The End of Air Transport As We Know it were always going to be wide of the mark.

SES – it spells EASA

The SES II package is a big win for the European Air Safety Agency EASA. It has been given responsibility for much of the practical day-to-day issues concerning air traffic management in the new package, adopted in September. It has also been given regulatory oversight of airports in the last year.

Reforming Eurocontrol – big job that

Eurocontrol has always been a complex element of the European aviation scene. It does not fit in at all. From the perspective of the Commission it is has a number of problems: it is a treaty organisation that is yet to have its treaty ratified; it is wider in reach than the European Union’s members, including places such as Turkey and Ukraine as members; and it is both a regulator and a service provider. Yet time after time, the Council and the Member States refer actions to Eurocontrol, rather than any of the Commission’s official agencies and bodies.