Aviation Intelligence Reporter – February 2014
Commercial Aviation: 100 Years Young
If There Wasn’t a Eurocontrol, Would We Invent One?
Big Data Meets Big Airline
Setting the Standards in Standard Setting
Business Certainty: Business Aviation Uncertainty
American Voice Calls, Noise Pollution and Other Emissions on Hold
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click hereCommercial Aviation: 100 Years Young
This year is awash with centennial memorials. Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s shooting fired the starting gun on modern total warfare, but something just as monumental got underway on new year’s day of 1914 – commercial aviation. Since then, commercial aviation has had its very own version of total warfare. Like a well emplaced machine gun, the industry has been wiping out shareholder value and investors as wave after wave of them come over the top armed only with optimism and PowerPoint presentations about how this time is different.
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If There Wasn’t a Eurocontrol, Would We Invent One?
Any self-respecting political organisation that demands change, come-what-may, has a provisional wing. The Provos fulfil a vital role. When the time comes to negotiate they can be dangerous, unreasonable and unpredictable. This preserves the negotiating pressure, whilst remaining comfortably and deniably distant from the reasonable arm of the party.
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Big Data Meets Big Airline
In a month not without news, from Syria to Grand Slam tennis, the single most interesting piece of news was almost little more than a throw-away remark by the still-on-a-charm-offensive Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline. In an interview with the Irish Independent newspaper he let slip that Ryanair was working with Google. It was a deliberate slip, one to scare the competition.
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Setting the Standards in Standard Setting
‘Standard’ is one of those words that has changed its meaning. It used to mean the best, the leader, the thing the Roman Centurions fought for; they admitted defeat only if it was surrendered. Now, it means the base-line, the basic from which all else can improve. That does not mean it is not important, far from it. The airline industry depends on standards, and compliance with them.
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Business Certainty: Business Aviation Uncertainty
The global airline industry had a good year in 2013, its best since 2010. Moderate global economic growth saw passenger numbers increase. For the commercial airlines´ airframe manufacturers 2013 was a boom year. Both Airbus and Boeing sold more than 1000 aircraft.
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American Voice Calls, Noise Pollution and Other Emissions on Hold
The rest of the world has been happily using mobile phones on aircraft for some years. In addition to several customers that offer Wi-Fi access only, SITA’s subsidiary, OnAir, has 14 customers that also offer GSM facilities. They are spread around the globe, from Singapore to Russia and from the Gulf to Brazil. The big gap in the map is the United States. Certain that the curtains would fade and the cows go off their milking, the US has steadfastly refused to allow mobile telephones on-board.
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