Aviation Intelligence Reporter – August 2014
Planning Flights Through Rapidly Deteriorating Westphalian Airspace
Gatwick: Towering Over ATM Competition
SITA Transit Gloria
New Commission: New Programme; New Material
Business Aviation: Who Will Come to the Rescue?
Keeping an Eye on the Surveillance of the Future
How Green Was My Transport and Tourism Committee?
A Bad Month
Aviation Advocacy Summer Cryptic Crossword 006
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click herePlanning Flights Through Rapidly Deteriorating Westphalian Airspace
Unfortunate but true, it often takes a disaster to make step changes in air transport. We have had a smorgasbord of disasters to choose from in July, one of the worst months in aviation history. The potential for step changes would justify installing a lift.
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Gatwick: Towering Over ATM Competition
Speaking at CANSO’s AGM in June, Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s CEO, asked a very simple question: ‘Why can I not go to DFS [the German ANSP] and say to them ‘Here is my flying. Control me?’’ A good question. One that gave many in the room more than a little frisson of concern. The world O’Leary describes would be a truly competitive ATM market. It would soon see a real focus on costs and customer service. It would likely see some creative destruction too, at least amongst the ANSPs. Hence the frisson.
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SITA Transit Gloria
The IATA AGM this year was not entirely an Abba-suit wearing, Stockholm-syndrome- ICAO-worship-fest, leavened with $2 million of Kylie to give it the locomotion it needed. Oh no, serious issues were also discussed, including the role of standards in aviation, distribution, flight tracking and aircraft noise. These were on the agenda, scripted to within an inch of their relevance and entirely predictable.
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New Commission: New Programme; New Material
It is that time again in the political cycle of life. The European elections having been held and a new President of the Commission appointed, it is time for all of the other Commissioners to be appointed and for new cabinets to be formed, senior Commission staff to be rotated, senior cabinet staff from the outgoing Commissioners to be accommodated and for new agenda, new programmes and new uses of the word ‘new’ to be launched. What fun.
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Business Aviation: Who Will Come to the Rescue?
There was much attention at the end of July on the UK´s economy, as its level of GDP finally exceeded its pre-crisis peak. It was the penultimate of the G7 recoveries to get back to the start line. Only Italy still lags. Output per head, average wages and productivity levels still wallow, compared to 2008, but GDP is on the up. It is a start, especially as the IMF has now upgraded this year´s growth projection to 3.2%. Historically, business aviation correlates with GDP, but it is yet to deliver the same sense of optimism this time around.
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Keeping an Eye on the Surveillance of the Future
Still more movement in the satellite area to report. Google, not content with balloons, is backing a company called WorldVu Satellites Ltd, based in the Channel Islands. WorldVu bought the spectrum rights of the now defunct Skybridge. Just in case you did not think that Google was serious, this will be a constellation of 360 satellites.
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How Green Was My Transport and Tourism Committee?
Sadly, the new European Parliament will be without Brian Simpson, an old-school Labour Party stalwart from the north of England. He chaired the Transport and Tourism Committee with distinction and a very clear understanding of the industry’s issues. He once famously turned to a legacy airline representative complaining about how badly they were being treated and said, ‘You are worse than the farmers.’ He will be missed.
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A Bad Month
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