Aviation Intelligence Reporter – January 2017 / December 2016
Drones: Changing the Culture of Culture Changes
Getting the Numbers Out of the Loop
Trump Force One: Good News for Business Aviation?
What’s in a Name? An Unnamed Airline Would Compete As Fairly
Funding Iron-Clad Airport Competition
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
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Drones: Changing the Culture of Culture Changes
In case you had not noticed, drones are now A Thing. Airlines are looking at what they can do with drones; airports are looking at what they can do about drones; ANSPs are wondering what they will have to do with drones. IATA and the pilots are hoping that the entire thing will blow over. They, bless, are hiding behind ICAO and continuing to insist on using the quaint nomenclature of RPAS. Good luck with that strategy.
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Getting the Numbers Out of the Loop
The A4E has finally published its much foreshadowed and long-awaited analysis of the economic impact of strike action by Europe’s air traffic controllers. The report, by PwC, puts the cost to the European economy of industrial action by controllers for the period 2010-15 at €10.4 billion.
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Trump Force One: Good News for Business Aviation?
The liberally minded world is now busy working its way through the seven stages of grief following Donald Trump’s shock election. Some have bypassed the unpleasant intermediate stages and reached directly for hope. Hope that is, that Trump the President is a very different animal to Trump the candidate.
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What’s in a Name? An Unnamed Airline Would Compete As Fairly
To the ominously quiet Gulf subsidies front. Well, quiet if you ignore the occasional low-level acts of passive-aggressive publication from both sides. The most recent fireball, insouciantly lobbed over the net, is the latest issue of Emirate’s publication, Open Sky. Even the name a not-so-subtle dig at the legacy carriers, it is distributed by Emirate’s lobbying team.
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Funding Iron-Clad Airport Competition
Privatisations are much like trams – you can wait ages then they all show up at once. We appear to be at the start of a new wave of airport privatisation. Speaking at ACI Europe’s recent symposium on airport charges, European Transport Commissioner Violetta Bulc noted the desperate need for greater investment in European airports. Easier said than done, Commissioner. Lack of budget and the EC’s own State Aid rules limit the scope for this investment to come from public funds. Most airports in Europe remain in public hands. Some degree of privatisation is therefore likely to be the answer.
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
With apologies to Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that new age prone,
Old age should burn and rave at the supremacy of manned flight;
Rage, rage against the coming of the drone.
Though wise men at their end know they are alone,
Because their words and their temper had no overwhelming might,
Do not go gentle into that new age prone.
Good men, harvesting what they have sown
Their frail deeds at their own shadows, and plastic bags, took fright;
Rage, rage against the coming of the drone.
Wild men who caught and sang fear like a crone,
And learn, too late, they grieved against ops beyond visual line of sight,
Do not go gentle into that new age prone.
Grave men, who see by the light of their phone,
Blind eyes blaze like meteors, fancy hats in place, but with no foresight,
Rage, rage against the coming of the drone.
And you, my fathers, there in the eye of the cyclone,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that age prone.
Rage, rage against the coming of the drone.
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