Aviation Intelligence Reporter – November 2010

Written by Admin-AIR-NEw on . Posted in 2010, AIR


Aviation and the Environment: Everyone agrees – but it is no agreement
Nightmare on Freight Street
Not so FABulous
Is NextGen merely a question of evolution?
How many Single Skies?

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Aviation and the Environment: Everyone agrees – but it is no agreement

For all the worthy things the ICAO General Assembly did at its once-every-three-year meeting, including agreements on security and safety, everything was overshadowed by the aviation industry environment debate. Or to put that another way, we did not focus on the things we can influence, but did what we could to focus on that which we cannot.
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Nightmare on Freight Street

For several years there has been a dirty little secret out there, lurking in the cargo department of airlines. Every now and again a news article pops out with news of eye-watering fines that have been levelled against various airlines involved in a huge collusion on freight rates. But, hey, it is cargo, so embarrassing as it might be, well, it is cargo.
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Not so FABulous

The move to a single European sky was never going to be easy. So the path has been marked with a series of stepping stones. The first was the Single European Sky (SES) Mark I attempt, which called on each European member state to take the lead. That was always destined to disappoint, but useful to the extent that it proved that ‘top down’ was not going to work. …

Is NextGen merely a question of evolution?

The airlines were not only getting aced in the Single Sky Committee in Brussels; at the same time in Washington DC, the Air Traffic Control Association, ATCA, was meeting. Filling in for the Secretary of Transport at short notice, Jim May, the President and CEO of the American airlines’ trade association the Air Traffic Association (ATA), gave his views on the on-going upgrade of the US’ air traffic management system, called NextGen.
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How many Single Skies?

You may not know it, but Belgium currently holds the six month rotating presidency of the European Union. The fact that there is no Belgium government has actually meant that senior officials who know what they are talking about chair meetings. Nevertheless, when it was announced that Belgium would host an invitation-only Aviation Summit in Bruges in late October, the impolite question was: Why?
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