Aviation Intelligence Reporter – May 2017
Raising Questions About MEP Questions About Airline Subsidies
Canadian Airports and Crown Rents: IATA Does the Snout to Trough Tango
Reviewing the Performance of the Performance Reviewers
Striking a Trumpian Tone on ATC Strikes
Business Aviation: Who Really Wants a Rethink?
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Raising Questions About MEP Questions About Airline Subsidies
Over last few months there has been something of a concentrated campaign on aviation subsidies in Europe. The attacks have not been from DG Competition, which you might think has the job of rooting out and eliminating State Aid. Instead, we have seen significant whistle-blowing, just in case the officials of DG Comp have been deep in the Amazonian rain forest or in a hilltop monastery or something and thus out of touch with the news for the last couple of years. Members of the European Parliament have taken it upon themselves to monitor this topic and have asked the Commission a series of questions relating to subsidies in the aviation industry.
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Canadian Airports and Crown Rents: IATA Does the Snout to Trough Tango
Even by the Mount Olympian summit standards of IATA, the position it has taken on the potential reform of the Canadian airports is one for the ages. Canada was amongst the first countries to look at ways to privatise its airports. The solution they came up with was to create new crown companies at each airport and then lease to these new airport companies, on commercial rental terms, the land on which the airports sit. It is a commercial rent, requiring the airport to behave commercially.
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Reviewing the Performance of the Performance Reviewers
Say what you like about the performance of Europe’s ANSPs, you have to admit that it does not happen unobserved. There is a famous joke wondering why we only have one competition authority, but what is the punch-line to European ATM having two performance review bodies, microscopically monitoring ANSP performance on metrics like efficiency and the reduction of duplication?
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Striking a Trumpian Tone on ATC Strikes
You might think that US President Donald Trump and the good officers of Europe’s air traffic control unions have nothing in common. But it seems there are as many similarities as there are distinctions. The lads from the European Air Traffic Controllers European Unions’ Coordination and the European Transport Workers’ Federation have most certainly been reading the Trumpian playbook, anyway.
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Business Aviation: Who Really Wants a Rethink?
The Royal Aeronautical Society dipped its toe into the murky waters of business aviation last month, organising an evening of panels entitled ´Rethinking business aviation´. The idea was to give policy-making attendees a wake-up call on the economic importance of the industry. The industry has to put up with clumsy regulation and is misperceived as an unimportant niche for the super wealthy. Time for a rethink, indeed.
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