Aviation Intelligence Reporter – August 2013
The ANSP-Airline Relationship: Handmade Cheese But No Maturity
Asiana 214: What we Can Learn
RP2: Getting on the Pony
Centralised Services: Quo Vadis Consolidation?
Biz-Av New Entrants: Good Money After Bad?
Do Not Shake This Book
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click hereThe ANSP-Airline Relationship: Handmade Cheese But No Maturity
It is a remarkable fact that even today, with all the equipment and technology available, each and every flight is lovingly handmade, as if it were artisanal cheese. Not only are flights planned in meticulous detail, but they are then escorted by hand across the sky. It is expensive, it is time consuming, and it ignores the benefits technology can bring.
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Asiana 214: What we Can Learn
No aircraft crash is good, but one of the good things that might come out of such an incident, and one of the amazing strengths of the air transport industry, is its willingness to look hard at each and every one and to learn from the experience. So it is proving with the recent Asiana aircraft that landed short in San Francisco.
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RP2: Getting on the Pony
The great physicist Lord Kelvin – he of absolute zero – once said, ‘Wireless is all very well, but I’d rather send a message by a boy on a pony.’ When it comes to ATM reform, pony speed would be considered fast, based on the evidence of the Performance Review Body stakeholder consultation for Reference Period 2 in early July.
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Centralised Services: Quo Vadis Consolidation?
‘There is a tide in affairs of men, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune,’ Brutus tells his men before the battle with Mark Antony at Philippi. ‘Omitted, all the voyages of their life are bound in shallows and miseries.’ We may now be seeing such a tide. The fortunes at stake might be nearly as huge as the future of the Republic, at least for those in the Republic of ATM.
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Biz-Av New Entrants: Good Money After Bad?
At the mid-point of 2013, the report card on European business aviation activity does not read well. Business aviation flights across the European market have fallen back three to four per cent on 2012. There have been few signs of recovery from the late 2011 second dip of a recession which began in 2007. Upward trends in the use of heavy and long range jets are the exceptions which prove the rule.
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Do Not Shake This Book
Shaking the Skies LID Publishing, London. 235 pages. £19.99 (but expect to pay much less…)
Let the heavens ring out – Shaking the Skies, Giovanni Bisignani’s account of his time at IATA is a wonder, a freak of nature, a marvel. This book deserves a Nobel Prize. For physics though, not literature. Never before in the history of publishing have so many contradictions been contained in what is described as non-fiction. Sometimes, it is the chapters that neatly contradict themselves. Sometimes it is merely a single page. In those rare, Nobel Prize winning moments, single paragraphs can have fundamental flaws. How this book does not cause major damage to the world’s cosmic balance is something of which many PhDs will surely be written. Chaos theory will need revision.
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