Aviation Intelligence Reporter – April 2009

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


Ownership and Control: Rep Oberstar sets the scene
Infrastructure: What about opening that to competition?
ANSPs: At the crossroads – where to from here?
Slots: Time to use or lose the ‘Use it or Lose it’ rule
Environment: GIACC soldiers on

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Ownership and Control: Rep Oberstar sets the scene

You might have thought that one of the easiest issues to address was that of liberalising investment rules to allow airlines to access capital markets like any other company. Few things would seem easier, and more logical. IATA has been pushing modest, step-wise proposals for some time, under the unfortunate name of the Agenda for Freedom. There is much to commend about the approach that IATA is putting forward.
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Infrastructure: What about opening that to competition?

So if we cannot be sure that the airlines will be able to access capital like real companies any time soon, what about the rest of the industry? Is there any way that we can bring competition into other parts of the industry? Surely, it is competition that sorts the broken from the operative models, ensuring the survival of the fittest.
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ANSPs: At the crossroads – where to from here?

This is not a service issue; it is a service model issue. At the recent ATC Global conference in Amsterdam, Boeing ATM’s Neil Planzer put the cat amongst the ideological pigeons by noting that at best, the corporatised ANSPs could do tactical things. And, he noted, they had lost the right to run to the State for bail out funds the day they elected to become corporatised monopolies.
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Slots: Time to use or lose the ‘Use it or Lose it’ rule

Remember the full service long haul airlines? Whatever happened to them? They used to be everywhere: taking control, dictating terms, running the industry. Now, they just seem to be running scared. Haven’t times changed for those once proud titans of the skies?
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Environment: GIACC soldiers on

The great and the good again meet at the very start of April in a basement – OK, yes, at a summit, to discuss the industry’s approach to the environment debate. The good old ‘ICAO, only ICAO and nothing but ICAO’ line is looking thinner by the day, but no doubt that will remain the party line.
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