Aviation Intelligence Reporter – October 2014
Norwegian Would Not
The Luxembourg Syndrome
Fab-heart. What the Scottish Referendum Might Have Meant…
Putin a Dampener on Business Aviation in CEE and Russia?
West meets East in Beijing
Outsourcing the End of Outsourcing?
Wizz Air’s Secret and Matthew Baldwin’s Career Moves in 17 Syllables
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click hereNorwegian Would Not
We have talked previously about the situation of Norwegian International Airlines, an Irish airline which, pursuant to the US-European Union Open Skies Agreement, has applied for permission to start services between the US and Europe. With naïve optimism, we assumed that common sense would prevail when NIA applied to the US Department of Transportation. We hoped that the hypercritical screams of outrage from competitors attempting to stop a competitor, and pilots that dislike anything that might make them work a little harder, would be seen for what they are.
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The Luxembourg Syndrome
Sad but true, aviation is in thrall to its regulators. It is a textbook example of the Stockholm Syndrome. In any other situation, we would be sending in the 101st Airborne, staging a daring raid to release the hostages, airlifting the industry to a military hospital on Hercules aircraft and turning the entire thing into a blockbuster. All those pathetic cries of ‘where is the love?’ would challenge a psychologist, played by a beautiful women not normally cast for her knowledge of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
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Fab-heart. What the Scottish Referendum Might Have Meant…
In Britain last month the Scottish referendum was run and determined, but, it has to be asked, what would the result have been if there had been the proper analysis of the aviation aspects of the succession question? There was simply not enough discussion about that part of the question, leaving voters woefully under informed.
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Putin a Dampener on Business Aviation in CEE and Russia?
Business aviation activity in Central and Eastern Europe tumbled 15% in August. Year-to-date the number of flights is 10% fewer than last year. It is almost certain this trend will worsen as the year continues. The conflict in Ukraine is obviously the core of the problem, but the wider repercussions, in terms of sanctions, exodus of foreign capital and barriers to trade are only just being felt by the wider economy. Business aviation activity is bound to suffer from these knock-on effects.
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West meets East in Beijing
The ATM world has been watching the dispute between the commercial conference provider UBM and the trade association tag-team of CANSO and ACTA for some years. The Madrid World ATM Convention was set up by CANSO in direct challenge to UBM’s ATC Global in Amsterdam. Like a game of Risk, each side claimed territory and allies.
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Outsourcing the End of Outsourcing?
You may not have noticed that Alaska Airlines agreed to pay half a million dollars by way of civil penalty to the FAA in September after an electrical fire ignited in a Boeing 737-400 cockpit in 2010 while it was parked at a gate in Anchorage. The FAA found the fire was caused by chafed wiring from an improperly positioned metal clamp that attaches an air hose to an overhead panel. So far so good. But here comes the tricky part.
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Wizz Air’s Secret and Matthew Baldwin’s Career Moves in 17 Syllables
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