Aviation Intelligence Reporter – August 2016
Seeing Straight Through Calls for Transparency
Truthiness in Reporting: Drone Sightings or Drone Slighting?
Truthiness in Reporting: Concerning Airline Concerns
The PRB Goes Rogue
IATA’s New Man’s Main Challenge… or is that Défi?
Biz-Av: Still Seeking Equilibrium
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click hereSeeing Straight Through Calls for Transparency
The air is thick with calls for ‘transparency’ in the dispute between the trans-Atlantic legacy carriers and the new entrant trans-Arabian Gulf carriers. Calls for transparency are interesting. No-one calls for transparency unless they are sure the view to be revealed is revealing. But far too often, the callers seem to forget that if it is truly transparent, it is not a two-way mirror you are looking through, it is a piece of glass. If you call for transparency, be sure you have nothing to hide.
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Truthiness in Reporting: Drone Sightings or Drone Slighting?
Parse its name correctly and you realise that the European Cockpit Association is the Ronseal paint of aviation. It is exactly what it says it is on the tin. It is European, it is an association… Putting that another way, the ECA’s name seems to be the closest it ever gets to total transparent honesty.
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Truthiness in Reporting: Concerning Airline Concerns
We have remarked before that the aviation industry has a complex relationship with the truth. The freedoms of the air are actually restrictions. The one thing we do not share in a code share is the code. We hold ‘summits’ underground. We use roadmaps with no relationship to navigating using roads.
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The PRB Goes Rogue
Looking for a beach read this summer? Forget the latest Dan Brown or business guru, turn instead to the Performance Review Body’s White Paper on the next round of performance objectives (RP3) for the European Commission’s Single European Sky package. It promises to challenge the readers, while taking them on an exciting journey involving FABs, missed targets and the political economy. What more can you want?
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IATA’s New Man’s Main Challenge… or is that Défi?
Alexandre de Juniac, the former CEO of Air France, is about to take the helm of that most rare of species, a trade association so rich and powerful that it is occasionally tempted to behave independently of its members’ will. Sacrebleu! How dare they?
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Biz-Av: Still Seeking Equilibrium
The Farnborough International Airshow this year had a muted biz-av presence. The relative importance of the private jet industry within the wider world of aerospace has waned the last few years, its production line stagnating in contrast to the fairly resilient market for airliners. As an equipment provider to both sectors, Rockwell Collins commented that whilst their product sales used to be split 50-50 between business jet and commercial jetliners, their expectation is for the airline share to climb towards 70% in the next couple of years.
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