Aviation Intelligence Reporter – March 2017
IATA, the A4E and AstroTurf: Speaking for Their Members
Jobs and Growth: Trump Style
Jobs and Growth: Fact Style
Eurocontrol Seeks Large State Suitor for Medium Term Relationship
Business Aviation – Using Space to Find Space
Deconstructing the Deconstruction of the Administrative State
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click hereIATA, the A4E and AstroTurf: Speaking for Their Members
The A4E is now one year old. It celebrated in the only way a self-respecting member of the aviation community knows – it held a Summit. It was billed as a ‘strategic summit’ but by the time it had finished it was moving into areas of philosophy not normally plumbed by the aviation industry: can you have a summit with no content?
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Jobs and Growth: Trump Style
President Trump promised jobs. Already we are watching two employment groups expand bigly. The first is satirists. The second is physiotherapists. They must be making a killing from clients referred to them after having met the President.
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Jobs and Growth: Fact Style
Putting aside the fact that he sourced many of his opinions from the knowledge of his personal pilot, President Trump is, in many ways, a poster child of the airline industry. He brags about owning his own transportation, including the T-Bird, his Boeing 757 private jet. For a time during the presidential campaign, Trump operated Tag Air, his own private charter service.
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Eurocontrol Seeks Large State Suitor for Medium Term Relationship
One of the most complex jobs in European aviation, the DG-ship of Eurocontrol, is up for grabs. The current DG, Frank Brenner, has announced that he is not seeking a second term. One of the main reasons why the job is so complex is that the next person you meet will not know what Eurocontrol is or where it fits in. If they do not work in aviation they will be even more confused. There are good answers to those questions but you have to hope you are not at a dinner party that canvasses them.
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Business Aviation – Using Space to Find Space
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) released the 2016 year-end aircraft shipment and billings numbers in mid-February. It does not make pretty reading. Global aeroplane shipments for 2016 slipped 3.9% from 2015. Aeroplane billings dropped 14%. And these numbers were flattered by a rise in Turboprop deliveries. New business jet deliveries, at 661 units, were at their lowest since 2014. The larger fall in billings highlights that much of the slowdown has come in the large cabin sector.
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Deconstructing the Deconstruction of the Administrative State
Some political analysts thought that Donald Trump’s run for the US presidency was a cunning ruse on the part of the Republican Party, intended to thin-out the pack of candidates who might have presented a threat to Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House. They thought Trump would drop out at some point during the primary or throw the general election after achieving some Machiavellian goal. How wrong they were.
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