Aviation Intelligence Reporter – September 2012

Written by Admin-AIR-NEw on . Posted in 2012, AIR


Europe is Confounding Forecasters
Nobility, Savagery, Regulation
Regulatory Reform – Getting the States On-Board
ATM Deployment – The Languor of Summer or the Sum of our Languor?
The Aviation Olympics – Faster, Higher, Stranger
Aviation Advocacy Cryptic Crossword 004 – Solution

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Europe is Confounding Forecasters

By Phillip Butterworth-Hayes, PMI Media
Say what you like about Soviet-style communism, at least it put bums on seats. Russian airlines carried 64.1 million passengers in 2011, a 12.6% increase over 2010 – this year they are doing even better. Russian airlines carried 18.49 million passengers during the first four months of 2012, a 19.8% increase over that period last year. These are impressive figures – but less so when compared to the past. In 1991 Aeroflot carried 121 million passengers, or nearly twice as much as 2011.
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Nobility, Savagery, Regulation

‘Man is born free, and everywhere is in chains’ said Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The only solution is to get back to a state of nature, a primitive innocence. Rousseau was born in Geneva, and we celebrate the tercentenary of his birth this year. The airline industry, not a stranger to Geneva, has decided to celebrate in ways that even the most ardent Rousseau scholar would admire. We have declared war on regulation.
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Regulatory Reform – Getting the States On-Board

If the real enemy is the regulatory urge lurking in the heart of every bureaucrat, then what can we do about it? It will help to get States on side, for a start. That is proving to be a big job. Just take the recent ICAO report of its air transport regulation panel. It is clear that the once cosy relationship between airlines and their regulators is gone. …

ATM Deployment – The Languor of Summer or the Sum of our Languor?

As the renaissance swept across Europe, gentlemen from northern Europe took themselves on the Grand Tour to the seat of learning and nobility which was Rome, via Venice. The aim was for something of the classic to rub off, and to snap up as many Canaletto paintings as possible.
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The Aviation Olympics – Faster, Higher, Stranger

Pure mathematics, Einstein said, is the poetry of ideas. To be fair to him, he said that before the invention of digital, 24 hour, all-sports-all-the-time, split-second timing, live coverage of the Olympics. As Einstein knew, things are relative.
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Aviation Advocacy Cryptic Crossword 004 – Solution

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