Aviation Intelligence Reporter – September 2017
The UNWTO: Trouble in Paradise
You Brexit, You Pay For It
Airport Tower ATM Liberalisation: Cleared for Take Off
Carbon Offsets: 20th Century Solution; 21st Century Problem
Biz-Av: No New Buyers; Plenty of Existing Ones
Delta’s New Video Asks for Balance: Here is a Balanced View
Aviation Advocacy Cryptic Crossword 009 – Solution
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The UNWTO: Trouble in Paradise
Venice, a city of 55,000 people, receives more than 20,000,000 visitors each year. Barcelona’s burghers slash the tyres of tour buses and write what can only be called very unwelcoming graffiti on tourist destinations in their own city. Certain groups of tourists – yes, the British – are not welcome on some holiday islands. Airbnb is known to force up rental rates for those that try to live normal lives in cities that have become nothing more than landmarks for the tourist/visitor/traveller seeking to find new experiences and new destinations.
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You Brexit, You Pay For It
It is hard not to channel your inner Churchill in the face of Brexit. The negotiations appear to be at a point Churchill might have described as ‘not the beginning of the end, but perhaps, the end of the beginning’. He would no doubt be pleased to note that Britain has adopted a Dunkirk-ian ‘fight them on the beaches’ mentality too, promising nothing but ‘blood, sweat and tears’. But even Churchill might concede the entire nation risks the outcome so succinctly put in his reported description of life in the navy: rum, buggery and the lash. Never before has so little been produced by so many for the benefit of so few. Aghast, industries look on, from both sides of the Channel.
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Airport Tower ATM Liberalisation: Cleared for Take Off
The ATM Policy Institute, a think-tank established this year to consider the liberalisation of ATM, is about to publish a new white paper on the liberalisation of terminal air navigation services – the ATM services that keep aircraft apart at airports and, depending on the traffic and airspace complexity, on approach to the airport. Traditionally, TANS are provided by ANSPs with long term, often statutory, monopolies.
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Carbon Offsets: 20th Century Solution; 21st Century Problem
There has been much debate in aviation circles about carbon offsets and carbon trading, to help in the battle against existential climate change. The debate intensified with ICAO’s recent CORSIA (Carbon Offsetting and Reduction System for International Aviation). The whole world of ‘Carbon Offsets’ is a like the sex life of amoeba. First, it is deeply important for amoeba but it is so small most people do not see it. Secondly, it is at an early point in the evolutionary cycle; humanity has moved on. Thirdly, the challenges in the evolved world cannot be dealt with by single cell reproduction.
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Biz-Av: No New Buyers; Plenty of Existing Ones
The General Aviation Manufacturers’ Association (GAMA) numbers, out at the end of August, confirmed that the industry is going sideways in terms of selling new aircraft; this year is on track to deliver 630 new business jets, the lowest in over a decade. When you consider the industry managed to sell 863 jets in 2006, you get some perspective on the awesome post-crisis hangover which business aviation is still working its way through. In short, a lost decade is looking more like a lost decade and a half.
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Delta’s New Video Asks for Balance: Here is a Balanced View
You may have been unfortunate enough to have seen a new staff video from Delta Airlines, complaining about what it calls ‘unfair’ competition with nasty overseas carriers. The rest of us would call it ‘competition’. All they are asking for is balance. Balance is always a good thing to have, so in honour of Delta’s request, and in the pursuit of balance, we offer a balanced view.
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Aviation Advocacy Cryptic Crossword 009 – Solution
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