Aviation Intelligence Reporter – April 2013
A Moving ICAO Conference? Heresy!
Passenger Rights: Crossing the T…
ATC Global vs World ATM Congress: Going Down to the Wire
Business Aviation’s Paper Ticket Moment?
ATM Competition: A Sprint, Not a Marathon
Space Communications: Now You SEE It, Now You Don’t
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click hereA Moving ICAO Conference? Heresy!
Supposedly, the raison-d’être of an ICAO conference is to set a broad policy course for the next decade or so. That is always a long shot. But even in the fuzzy world of multilateral diplomacy, it is nice, sometimes, to have clear instructions for a new heading. Some ICAO Conferences – those you write with a capital C – are a rare, once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, provided you live that long and are lucky into the bargain.
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Passenger Rights: Crossing the T…
In naval parlance, ‘Crossing the T’ is a manoeuvre to bring a line of warships across the bow of an opposing column. Guns on all the ships can fire simultaneous broadsides while only the hapless lead ship of the enemy can fire straight back. Even in peacetime, navies don’t cross the T of another fleet. The act is noticeably unfriendly. So take note that when the Commission unveiled the long-delayed revision of airline passenger rights known as Regulation 261 in March, it was the European Parliament that promptly opened hostilities and Crossed the T.
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ATC Global vs World ATM Congress: Going Down to the Wire
In last month’s Aviation Intelligence Reporter we reported that the great battle of the duelling ATM conferences was at half time. CANSO had played its Madrid opening, and we awaited the long-standing commercial organiser of ATC Global, UBM’s turn to run with the wind to the scoring end of the ground in Amsterdam. Turns out we were wrong. That was not the half time siren we heard, it was the quarter time siren.
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Business Aviation’s Paper Ticket Moment?
Tony Tyler, the DG of IATA, threw down the gauntlet to the ANSPs to find their paper ticket moment in Madrid. The commercial airlines’ 100% conversion to electronic ticketing was hard, but has saved billions. Commercial aviation´s business jet sibling, recession-prone for the last 4 years, could do with a comparable fillip.
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ATM Competition: A Sprint, Not a Marathon
by Jacques Mason, independent aviation consultant
Surely it was pure serendipity that saw the latest edition of the Harvard Business Review run an article on ‘How Competition Strengthens Start-Ups’ so soon after the feared C word raised its nervous head at the World ATM Summit in Madrid. ‘Competition’ and ‘ATM’ are words not normally heard in the same sentence. How could anyone, even the editors of as august a journal as the HBR, know that the ANSP industry would be discussing so apparently incendiary a topic.
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Space Communications: Now You SEE It, Now You Don’t
If you were lucky enough to have a window seat flying the polar route on the night of 16 March, you saw an amazing display of Northern Lights. Red, green, and yellow veils of the Aurora Borealis danced across the skies for hours as solar particles passed through the magnetosphere and collided with atoms in the thermosphere.
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