Aviation Intelligence Reporter – September 2011

Written by Admin-AIR-NEw on . Posted in 2011, AIR


Too many leaders, not enough leadership
LightSquared: Darkness cubed
Airline Consolidation: Coming together or falling apart?
Get Charter: the Internet and private jet travel for the masses
Airport Market Power – Traditionally, it is a battle of the Titans
The Aviation Advocacy Summer Crossword 003 – Solution

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LightSquared: Darkness cubed

Politics is the art of the possible; government is the art of making politics work. So you have to feel a little bit of pity for the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at the moment. They are stuck between two major US initiatives – NextGen and the national broadband strategy.
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Airline Consolidation: Coming together or falling apart?

Interviewed in the summer edition of the ACI-Europe journal, Lufthansa CEO Christoph Franz made a remarkable comment. ‘With the merger of BA and Iberia, European consolidation is now finished’, he said. Finished. That’s that – we are to have this many airlines in Europe for the foreseeable future.
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Get Charter: the Internet and private jet travel for the masses

Gettaxi launched in London last month. It’s a service that uses smartphones to link cab supply and customer demand. Customers can identify the closest cars, profile the driver and even pay without saying a word. It threatens to disrupt the traditional and expensive dispatch services to which taxi drivers and passengers have been chained for years. A similarly elegant game-changer in business aviation might liberate the private jet sector from its luxury-niche stereotype. br/> …

Airport Market Power – Traditionally, it is a battle of the Titans

The Australian Productivity Commission has just released a draft report on the economic regulation of airport charges. A public consultation is now underway. The draft report will annoy airlines around the world: http://www.pc.gov.au/projects/inquiry/airport-regulation/draft.
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The Aviation Advocacy Summer Crossword 003 – Solution

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