Aviation Intelligence Reporter – February 2011
2011 – A user’s guide
Airports, Air Traffic Management, Business Aviation, Distribution Systems, Environment, Futurology, Safety, Security2050 – A user’s guide: To Infinity and Beyond
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What does 2011 hold for air transport? The glib answer is a lot. Just like normal. You can expect the unexpected too. But beyond the overuse of clichés, there are some things that we already know will be on the agenda.
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Airports
The Commission has advised that it intends working on a package of measures related to airports. Sure, some people are upset that the Commission made that announcement in its work plan for 2011 before the Commission’s consultation on slots had actually finished. But anyone who thought slots were going to be consulted on and ignored deserves nomination for Optimist of the Year.
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Air Traffic Management
Every year the ATM industry describes itself as at the crossroads. But somehow, one turning point after another never seems to live up to the advanced billing. So that makes 2011 interesting, because what will be interesting is what might not happen.
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Business Aviation
The Intelligence Reporter didn’t hold its breath last year on the painfully premature optimism in some quarters that business aviation was bouncing back from its 2007 fall from grace [see our EBACE feature in June 2010]. Well over 10% of the industry’s fleet stayed on the shelf last year, even as prices fell up to 40% below 2008 levels.
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Distribution Systems
Google has made a bid for ITA, a company that makes new generation reservation systems. It is fair to say that Google is beside itself with indifference about airline reservations or that it thinks that it can do a better job of running such a system. Google wants not bums on seats, it wants eyeballs on screens.
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Environment
2011 is the last year before the European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) comes into effect. But DG Environment is not resting on its laurels. No, as we reported late last year, it is out there finding equivalent measures in other States that it can trade with. If there are equivalent measures, the ETS would apply only on out-bound flights.
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Futurology
It looks like there will be a veritable epidemic of looking forward this year. CANSO will be asking us to plan the way to 2013 via a Waypoint. Waypoint 2013 is the successor in title to Imagine 2010, but so far, there has been more resistance than one might have expected to the ANSPs gathering together to be forceful about their own position. Or, perhaps more accurately, the ANSPs do not want their association putting forward views they might not agree with. They are making that point forcefully.
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Safety
During 2010 the number of fatal airline accidents reached 26, with the deaths of 817 passengers and crew. Runway excursions, including overruns, were by far the largest cause of accident.
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Security
We celebrate the 30th anniversary of the data protection legislation in Europe this year. The very day marking the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data fell, as if to make a point, in the same week that more than thirty people were killed in one of Moscow’s airports.
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2050 – A user’s guide: To Infinity and Beyond
The last thing IBM needs is a vision, Lou Gerstner famously said. Giovanni Bisignani, on the other hand, is determined to be remembered for his vision for the airline industry. A vision for 2050, no less.
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