Aviation Intelligence Reporter – October 2010
What if they start a war and no-one else shows up?
Game and Set to the new kids on the block
Single European Sky? The problem is on the ground…
Was Walsh right on Export Credit?
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click hereWhat if they start a war and no-one else shows up?
The airline industry is dogged, if nothing else. Or at least IATA and its not very altered alter-ego ATAG is anyway. There they were again, gathered in the basement of Geneva’s most expensive hotel in mid-September to have a ‘summit’, bashing away at their 40 year horizon solution for the environment. Bashing away so hard, they did not seem to notice that the rest of the industry is gently peeling off from the IATA hard line.
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Game and Set to the new kids on the block
Sad to say, Ireland has not produced any great tennis players. But it does seem that every time they send one of their plucky lads out onto the court they are seeded to play Roger Federer in the first round. The most recent plucky lad was Willie Walsh – playing away from home but in front of a very parochial crowd at the European Aviation Club lunch in the middle of September.
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Single European Sky? The problem is on the ground…
As if smothered under volcanic ash, both the SESAR organization and the Commission have been remarkably quiet recently about progress towards a Single European Sky. The Commission is waiting for the formal publication of the Booz & Co report, discussed in the Aviation Intelligence Reporter last month. SESAR will tell you it is quietly getting on the job.
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Was Walsh right on Export Credit?
It is easy to understand why aircraft manufacturers like export credit. It reduces the price that purchasers pay without reducing the amount the manufacturer receives. It is also clear airlines which get that credit like the credit that it represents. But is it unfair? Should the house of cards be brought down? …