Aviation Intelligence Reporter – March 2011
Airline Competition – The gloves come off
The big top circus show of TEN-T funding
FABs – You can never have too much of a fabulous thing
White Paper Blues
Looking into the future, but not thinking ahead
Calleja moves from DG MOVE
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click hereAirline Competition – The gloves come off
For a very long time airline competition was not like competition in other industries. The particular regulatory environment, the distinction between domestic aviation and international aviation and the reality that no airline could fly to all the possible destinations the passenger might require made us very good at carving out a special place. You could call aviation competition many things: regulated, over-regulated, quaint; but „red in tooth and claw‟ was not one of the phrases that immediately sprang to mind for how airlines competed.
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The big top circus show of TEN-T funding
Every now and then, the European Commission calls for submissions for people keen to help spend the Commission‟s money. The only catch is that your proposals need to support the trans-European transport network, or TEN-T.
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FABs – You can never have too much of a fabulous thing
„When words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain‟, according to John of Gaunt in Richard II. Sadly, this does not seem to be the case when cash is short. Certainly in the area of greatest spend at the moment, and, the greatest chance of bang for buck as a result of that spending, we are still seeing an assumption that all one has to do is lie under the spigot with open mouth for yet more funding.Rather than ensuring that our scarce money is not spent in vain, we are seeing all the players making sure that it is not spend on others. That is much more important.
White Paper Blues
As we reported last month, DG MOVE is working on a White Paper on future transport requirements. Drafts have been circulating for some time, each draft trying to outdo the previous draft by increasing the use of the expression „sustainable growth‟. It is fair to say that the growth in the use of sustainable growth seems sustainable. OK, not that particular sentence, but you get the picture.
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Looking into the future, but not thinking ahead
Vision 2050, the IATA 2050 futurology event finished in the only way IATA knows in Singapore – with a press release proclaiming victory and moving on. This is the move traditionally known as the Kissinger. At least this time they acknowledged that it was a one-off.
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Calleja moves from DG MOVE
As we have previously noted, Daniel Calleja, the director for aviation inside DG MOVE has been promoted and is moving on. Daniel is to become Deputy DG in DGEnterprise working again for his old boss, Italian Antonio Tajani. Calleja did yeoman service for Tajani, apologising for his non-attendance at various meetings and conferences and then delivering the Tajani speech Calleja had written in the first place.
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