Aviation Intelligence Reporter – November 2012
Airlines Agree Means to Price Their Own Tickets – Shock!
Single European Sky: Not So FAB, But Thanks for Asking
Can a Game-Keeper Change its Spots?
State (Aid) your Business
It May be Private Aviation – But the Public Pays the Price
After the Sandy Storm – Sunny days in Florida?
What to Expect When You Expect ICAO to Change
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click hereAirlines Agree Means to Price Their Own Tickets – Shock!
In our June Aviation Intelligence Reporter we discussed the efforts of a small group of airlines, along with IATA, to wrest back the ability for airlines to price their own tickets and to own the data about their passengers. Leaving aside for a minute the sorry saga of how the airlines came not to have that control in the first place, the news is good. Kudos are due to IATA’s team.
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Single European Sky: Not So FAB, But Thanks for Asking
Is there an opposite to onomatopoeia? Can a word so not resemble its sound as to be misleading? If so, FAB would be one such word – an anonomatopoeia perhaps. Because if FABs are one thing, it is not fab. That at least was the view of the European Parliament and of the special rapporteur to the Commission, Georg Jarzembowski.
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Can a Game-Keeper Change its Spots?
CANSO has a new Director General. A man who is, as the press release of the announcement said, no stranger to the ANSPs. Jeff Poole, formerly of IATA, is to be DG of CANSO. His appointment starts at ICAO’s ANC12 conference in late November. …
State (Aid) your Business
There are not many people left that think that airports do not compete. Thankfully that old fallacy is just about dead and buried. So if airports do compete, surely the competition rules are all we need? Not so fast, pilgrim…
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It May be Private Aviation – But the Public Pays the Price
Far be it from the Aviation Intelligence Reporter to criticise lobbyists for doing their job. They are required to put forward their clients’ positions whenever possible. But hats off to the US general aviation lobby group the National Air Transportation Association.
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After the Sandy Storm – Sunny days in Florida?
If nothing else, President Obama’s attack on business aviation showed poor timing, because it was made days before the annual National Business Aviation Association meeting in Florida. More than most of America’s ‘national’ grandstands, the NBAA is also the de facto international convention for the business aviation industry. The US- based fleet of general aviation aircraft numbers more than 18,000, dwarfing Europe’s 4,000 aircraft. It is 60% of the global fleet. So if it’s happening in business aviation, it should be happening in Florida this week.
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What to Expect When You Expect ICAO to Change
Last month we mentioned that ICAO had shown some welcome change in the area of aviation security. Further tests of that maturity await. The next hurdle will be the once a decade Air Navigation Conference in the second half of November. After that, there is only a conference on emissions and the General Assembly to navigate before rumours of change can be accepted as real.
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