Aviation Intelligence Reporter – October 2011
Pity the Poor Eurocrats
Do you read me? – Over!
Storm clouds gathering over Luxemburg
European Emission Certificates – Apparently, you can bank on them
Business Aviation 2011: nearing the end of term report
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click herePity the Poor Eurocrats
It’s not often you can say, ‘Pity the poor Eurocrat’ with a straight face. The job is unaccountable; salaries are good, tax benefits better, job security best. But after the whining and complaining Commission officials heard at a workshop to facilitate a constructive exchange of views on the way forward to deploy the air traffic management (ATM) systems the SESAR JU has worked so hard to develop, held mid-September, it was very hard not to feel some pity.
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Do you read me? – Over!
Passengers in a modern aircraft are more and more likely to be sitting in the cabin twittering, checking their emails and texting away quite happily. Only that very original form of digital communication, using your hands to write a letter, pre-dates that other marvel of technology – voice transported by electricity. That is the telephone and the radio to the likes of us.
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Storm clouds gathering over Luxemburg
‘There is no reason,’ goes an aviation adage, ‘to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.’ The thunderstorm on the horizon is the increasing role the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has had thrust upon it in a wide-ranging series of commercial aviation cases. Like it or not, pilots and carriers are about to fly through heavy weather at court. They may soon feel like Pericles; the world like a lasting storm, whirring them from their friends. br/> …
European Emission Certificates – Apparently, you can bank on them
As noted above, all eyes will be on the ECJ on 6 October for the Advocate General’s opinion on the case brought by the carriers against the extension of the ETS to non-European aviation. If you watch the IATA press releases, you would think that there were no other aviation issues in play at the moment. Nothing else seems to matter.
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Business Aviation 2011: nearing the end of term report
Las Vegas will host the NBAA, Business Aviation’s flagship annual event in mid-October. Over 25,000 will attend. Attendance at EBACE, Europe’s equivalent show, was just over 12,000, and at ABACE, Asia’s show, around 3,000. So the North American industry is still the draw card, but as the world’s biggest business aviation market faces up to a further 12 months in the doldrums, there’s an increasing sense of desperation well suited to the host city’s last chance saloon culture.
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