Aviation Intelligence Reporter – July 2012
Trade Association AGM Season – What We Know Now
Trade Association AGM Season – Metaphor Machine Meltdown
Trade Association AGM Season – Global Governance Crisis
Passenger Rights, Passenger Wrongs – Try This Quick Quiz
Let’s Talk about the Value of Consultation
Fractionally Better?
Being Silent with One Voice
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click hereTrade Association AGM Season – What We Know Now
It is almost physically impossible to attend all the annual aviation industry get-togethers. For a start, there are so many of them. Then IATA, CANSO and ACI-Europe schedule their AGMs within about 10 days at various locations around the world. The stamina required to sit through that many oh-so-worthy, self-styled ‘Summits’ is Herculean.>
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Trade Association AGM Season – Metaphor Machine Meltdown
IATA was known for having had an irony-ectomy during the reign of the previous Director General. But It turns out the irony gene was not dead, just resting. IATA is now back in the race for the most ironic of all AGM performances. Respect.
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Trade Association AGM Season – Global Governance Crisis
Issues of significantly more importance than the need to overhaul the metaphor machine were also under the spotlight in both Beijing and Rome. Trade associations are not normal companies. Their governance cannot be business as usual. Members of a trade association are exactly that – members. The sense of proprietary rights between members and their trade associations is closer to that of family than that of shareholder. …
Passenger Rights, Passenger Wrongs – Try This Quick Quiz
What does the European Parliament love to hate most?
(a) The aviation sector?
(b) The chemical industry?
(c) The banking sector?
(d) The Commission?
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Let’s Talk about the Value of Consultation
Fuel is about one third of the airlines’ costs. Air traffic control costs about five percent. So it is not surprising that the ANSPs are asking the airlines, and the Commission’s Performance Review Body, to focus on what they are doing to deliver value, rather than to merely reduce costs.
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Fractionally Better?
NetJets, or rather, Berkshire Hathaway, lifted the spirits of a largely disconsolate private jet industry in June, with the news of its record $9.6bln order for 425 new aircraft to sustain its global fractional ownership business.
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Being Silent with One Voice
The Air Transport Action Group, IATA’s diffusion brand, and more recently the industry’s preferred vehicle to fail to convince the world that aviation should be excused from the European ETS, is unique. It is the only group in the world that thought the Rio +20 Earth Summit was likely to reach any decisions, or make any progress. Everyone else on earth knew that nothing would come from the follow-up meeting to the original Rio Earth Summit. That lack of expectation was fully met. It was the meeting’s only achievement.
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