Aviation Intelligence Reporter – July 2014
The IATA AGM: Some Pillars of Wisdom Built on Arabian Sands
The ACI AGM: Airports and Culture – Your Goethe-to Solution
The CANSO AGM: Gathering in Dublin’s Dark Pools
Ownership and Control: Front and Centre
Making the (Data) Link From Here to Where, Exactly?
The Strange Death of the UK´s Regional Airports
Duelling Registries – A Haiku From the Inner Edges of Europe
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click hereThe IATA AGM: Some Pillars of Wisdom Built on Arabian Sands
Lawrence of Arabia arrived in the Persian Gulf determined to build consensus between otherwise warring factions and redraw the map of the world. Tyler of IATA, on the other hand, brought his rag tag militia to Doha with no dream of redrawing the map of aviation. The Great Powers determined modern aviation in 1944 and Tyler of IATA was not about to shake that up. This was not about camels thundering into Aqaba unannounced. This was the IATA AGM.
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The ACI AGM: Airports and Culture – Your Goethe-to Solution
It is hard to imagine a location less like Doha than Frankfurt. Yes, it has funky buildings, but it also has an active street scene and people that are interested in the World Cup – for the football. The European section of the Airport Council International met in Frankfurt two weeks after the IATA event. Instead of Kylie, there was culture. Brenda Rae, a young soprano performed at the dinner and private, intense, tours of Frankfurt’s magnificent fine art museum, the Städel, preceded a welcome drink. The tours coincided exactly with the second half of Germany’s first group match – sending a strong message about what was really important.
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The CANSO AGM: Gathering in Dublin’s Dark Pools
The name Dublin comes from the Gaelic for ‘dark pools’. So it was unfortunate that as the delegates to the CANSO AGM flew to Dublin from around the world, their complimentary newspapers were full of stories about the SEC suing banks for the activities of their dark pools in manipulating markets.
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Ownership and Control: Front and Centre
In the middle of June, the Air France/KLM group of airlines and the Lufthansa airlines signed a joint letter to European Commission Vice Presidents Siim Kallas, Commissioner for Transport, and Joaquin Alumnia, Commissioner for Competition, objecting to the ‘excessive growth of third country carriers’. This excessive growth is on the back of support from their governments that see aviation as a strategic industry. Europe’s airlines need safeguards, they said, to ensure fair competition.
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Making the (Data) Link From Here to Where, Exactly?
The one reliable data point in the European datalink story is that the system does not work. After the airlines spent significant amounts of money installing equipment to comply with the Commission’s mandate for implementation by the end of 2013 – the same mandate the ANSPs and their governments almost entirely ignored – EASA has had to admit what everyone knew: the system is not working. In fact, to attempt to insist on using it is dangerous.
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The Strange Death of the UK´s Regional Airports
As mentioned above, the UK’s Airports Commission has released its latest discussion paper on the ever-thorny issue of how to create additional aviation capacity in the UK. This time the discussion included regional airports, especially those serving London and the south east. The paper invites recommendations how these airports can enhance their connectivity. The underlying message is that painful decisions need to be made.
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Duelling Registries – A Haiku From the Inner Edges of Europe
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