Aviation Intelligence Reporter – November 2014
Finally, Competitive ANSPs: Sadly, only in Court…
Things Fall Apart for Europe’s Legacy National Champions
Follow the Money? For NDC, More Vector Diagram Than Cash Flow
Optional Unbundling?
Why isn’t there a market in ATM? – by Frank Brenner, DG Eurocontrol
Business Aviation: Is That Dawn on the Horizon?
The Nobel Prize for Jean Tirole: The Economics of Regulation
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click hereFinally, Competitive ANSPs: Sadly, only in Court…
At CANSO’s AGM this year, in Dublin, Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair, asked a simple question. ‘Why can’t I go to Germany’s DFS and say “This is all my flying, control me?”’ A good question. One that would see ANSPS compete for Ryanair’s business. Imagine that, ANSPs competing for business.
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Things Fall Apart for Europe’s Legacy National Champions
If Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart had been set in France, it would be a different story. Okonkwo would be, Danone-like, a national champion, to be protected and preserved. No new cultures would be allowed to upset his world view and his way of doing things. However, notwithstanding the sort of protection only legacy national champions can call upon, as for Okonkwo, things might just be falling apart for Europe’s legacy carriers. The centre cannot hold.
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Follow the Money? For NDC, More Vector Diagram Than Cash Flow
IATA continues to push its New Distribution Capacity (NDC) initiative very hard. Barely a week goes by without IATA’s DG, Tony Tyler, making a speech about how it will change the industry, stop the curtains from fading and solve world hunger. Increasingly, notwithstanding his yeoman work, NDC looks destined to go straight to video.
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Optional Unbundling?
Not that we needed further evidence, but yet again October saw just how unbalanced Europe’s market for ATM related services are. Eurocontrol’s Maastricht Upper Airspace Centre contracted controller training services from the French academy, ENAC, part of DSNA, France’s ANSP. The first anyone knew of it was when it was announced. There was no tender, no public procurement process.
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Why isn’t there a market in ATM? – by Frank Brenner, DG Eurocontrol
By Frank Brenner – Director General of Eurocontrol
Aviation has changed a lot over the last forty years and so, rather than asking ‘Why should we introduce competition in ATM?’ it is now more reasonable to ask ‘Why hasn’t it already happened?’ After all, most of the rest of European aviation has moved on. Forty years ago, with a few exceptions, the choice for the passenger was between the flag carrier of the country they were leaving, and the flag carrier of their destination country. The idea of an Irish airline operating flights between Spain and Italy or a Spanish airline flying regularly from Brussels to Rome was still a dream.
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Business Aviation: Is That Dawn on the Horizon?
Captain America appears to have come to the rescue. The just-completed meeting of the global business aviation industry at the NBAA´s annual convention in Florida was in ebullient mood. Not excessive, battered and bruised as the industry is from six years on-off recession and a succession of annual conventions where the recovery has been prematurely called. But high-spirited all the same; the down cycle has run its course.
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The Nobel Prize for Jean Tirole: The Economics of Regulation
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