Aviation Intelligence Reporter – March 2014
Norwegian Would?
Google and Aviation: Just Hot Air?
Airports and State Aid: Now is the Time to Come to the Aid of the Airports
Airport Capacity: More Than Just Putting Money in the Slots
Centralising State Decision Making: It Scores RP1+
Holiday Makers’ Rights
Business Aviation Needs to Scale Up
Less is More: An Occasional Look at Aviation Speeches
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click hereNorwegian Would?
If the application by Norwegian Air International to the Irish civil aviation authority, the IAA, for an Air Operator’s Certificate, and its subsequent attempt to establish long-haul services were set to music, which tune would you use? What about a square dance? The Chicken Dance perhaps? Better still, the Headless Chicken Dance.
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Google and Aviation: Just Hot Air?
Last month, we looked at whether Google could be a force for the disintermediation of the airline industry. Or, more accurately, a force for the next round of the disintermediation of the airline industry. Then, this month, Google announced that it was taking over the management of Moffet Federal Airfield from NASA.
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Airports and State Aid: Now is the Time to Come to the Aid of the Airports
DG COMP has released the results of its review of the State Aid provisions concerning airports. We are at the mighty labours versus gnat interface. But note, the mighty labours were not just from DG COMP. Every interested trade association, and that was all of them, opened all the stops. The airports were determined to retain what they had; the airlines keen to stop the market distortions. All possible self-interests were paraded. The associations risked melt down. So, what came out of that mighty effort?
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Airport Capacity: More Than Just Putting Money in the Slots
It is not just London where runways are hard to build. Eurocontrol’s most recent study on airport capacity in Europe suggests that nearly 12% of total demand for flights will not be able to be met by 2035 due to lack of airport, and particularly runway, capacity. That is a big deal. And it is fixable. Name another industry that deliberately turns its back on more than 10% of its market? That will not even fight for 10% of the market? Anyone?
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Centralising State Decision Making: It Scores RP1+
What is going on in the world of ATM regulation? One of the key planks of the entire reform of ATM has been that the state and the ANSP be separate. Once, you could be sure that the states would come to meetings of regulators with the ANSP in the delegation, if not leading the delegation. Now, it is supposed to be different.
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Holiday Makers’ Rights
It has been a bad few weeks for the airlines at the European Parliament. We are seeing the usual end-of-term rush to get legislation passed before the next round of elections in May. With an election looming, you can be sure of one thing: anything with a hint of popular appeal does well. In the David v Goliath stakes of airlines versus individual passengers this is a non-contest.
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Business Aviation Needs to Scale Up
We were a tad pessimistic last month in siding with most analysts in predicting a fifth straight year of falling business jet deliveries. In fact, the General Aviation Manufacturers´ Association just announced an increase for 2013. But before we get over-excited, the increase was but six aircraft, less than 1% growth on 2012. Total deliveries are still around 50% off the 1,313 business jets delivered globally in 2008.
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Less is More: An Occasional Look at Aviation Speeches
There is no end to speeches given in the aviation industry. ‘Sometimes, there also seems to be no end to the speeches themselves. ‘Speak the speech,’ Hamlet encourages the players, ‘trippingly on the tongue.’ That advice can be taken too far. All speeches can be reduced to a few lines or thoughts. These days, we are inclined to think of them in terms of the 140 character limit of tweets. But centuries before tweets, the Japanese were already doing that very thing in the form of haiku.
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