Aviation Intelligence Reporter December 2013 – January 2014
No Traction in the Centre? Look to the Edges
How Much Porridge is Enough? Goldilocks Knows
European ANSPs are revolting
Eastern Europe Tries to Think Business Aviation Outside its Box
DGs, SGs, CEOs and Peter Pan All Agree to Cooperate – But Not Together
Will the USA Ever Get a Real ANSP?
Ryanair: Early Ripe, Early Rotten?
The Aviation Intelligence Award 2013
The European Version
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click hereNo Traction in the Centre? Look to the Edges
‘The centre cannot hold;’ WB Yeats feared, in The Second Coming. ‘Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.’ It reads like the opening line of most legacy carriers’ annual reports. Ironically, Yeats sees salvation arriving from across ‘a waste of desert sand…’ That is less likely to be in the legacy carriers’ annual reports. Sure, Qantas and Air France/KLM have adopted a ‘if-you-can’t-beat-‘em-join-‘em’ approach but most other legacy carriers fall back to complaining and breast-beating about the airlines from the Gulf. You can see from the new aircraft order figures just how well that is going.
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How Much Porridge is Enough? Goldilocks Knows
You would think more than €325billion is enough porridge for everyone, not just Goldilocks. That’s how much the Commission will dispense in regional aid over the next six years to less developed EU regions including Bulgaria, Romania, the French overseas territories, and – wait for it – southwest England. However, if you ask airports and airlines their view, that is a piffling amount, not too big, much too small, most certainly not right. Who knew porridge was so moreish?
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European ANSPs are revolting
The concept of a single European airspace seems so simple. We have a single European aviation market for European airlines and passengers. It is so ingrained it is impossible to imagine life without it. We have common European rules on airport charges and ground handling. There are differences of opinion on thresholds for when they might apply and to what extent, but not on their existence. So why is creating a single European airspace proving so very difficult?
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Eastern Europe Tries to Think Business Aviation Outside its Box
If you are interested in a broad, nuanced view of aviation in all of Europe, you will have appreciated the annual Central Europe Private Aviation (CEPA) conference in Prague in late November. It had over 200 aviation specialists and industry stakeholders in wide-ranging operational, commercial and regulatory discussions. It was a showcase for the dynamic aspirations of the ‘economies in transition’ both in, and beyond, the east of the EU.
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DGs, SGs, CEOs and Peter Pan All Agree to Cooperate – But Not Together
The first ever Association of European Airlines (AEA) Leadership Summit in late November saw an array of trade association leaders sitting together. Given that this historic meeting was held above ground, the term ‘Summit’ is not inappropriate. There was a DG and CEO, Tony Tyler, of IATA, a DG, Olivier Jankovec of ACI Europe, a Chairman, Paul Riemens of CANSO and a CEO, Athar Khan, just confirmed, from the AEA. The role was formerly that of an SG, or secretary general.
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Will the USA Ever Get a Real ANSP?
By Bob Poole, Director of Transportation Policy, Reason Foundation, USA
The US ATC system has had three notable characteristics in addition to being the world’s largest. It has long been considered the best in the world. It is the only system of any size funded by taxes rather than transaction fees. And it is one of few remaining Western ATC systems that has not been commercialised.
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Ryanair: Early Ripe, Early Rotten?
Ryanair has announced its intention to start bases at Rome Fiumicino and Brussels International airports. That followed two announcements to the market foreshadowing profit downgrades. These are more than straws in the wind; this is a haystack blowing past. The Ryanair model is changing. It is time to contemplate what that might mean for European aviation.
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The Aviation Intelligence Award 2013
It is that time of the year again, when the brightest and the best have already had their award ceremony and the gongs are gone. Now, it is time to recognise the less-than- glorious moments in aviation. Last year, you may recall, our inaugural award, in the Stupidest Acronym category was won by CANSO’s EC3 – a mix of numbers as well as letters, which were not in order, but which incorporated an acronym as one of the letters making up the new acronym. Truly a bar-raising effort.
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The European Version
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