Aviation Intelligence Reporter – April 2017
Driverless Cars, Driverless Aeroplanes and the Need for Speed
The World of ATM at World ATM Congress
A4Protectionism; IATA for Grand Statements
The Additive Manufacture of Aviation Regulation
British Biz-Av; British Brexit
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Driverless Cars, Driverless Aeroplanes and the Need for Speed
The physicists of CERN, Europe’s centre for research into nuclear science, spent years, and billions of Euros, building the world’s largest hadron collider to prove the existence of the Higg’s boson. In a hadron collider, atoms are sent at high speed in opposite directions around a ring to smash into each other. Of interest is what spins out of the collision. It is pure science. Wasted. All they needed to do to observe what happens when concepts collide was to wait for this year’s Geneva Motor Show.
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The World of ATM at World ATM Congress
Every year, the great and the good of the ATM world gather in Madrid for the annual World ATM Congress, a mere week and a rival city away from the world’s mobile telephone industry shindig in Barcelona. This year, in Barcelona, there was even a session on drones, suggesting the cross-over nature of the new technology. In Madrid, it was more crossed lines than cross-over, but drones most certainly were on the agenda.
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A4Protectionism; IATA for Grand Statements
You might think airline trade associations somewhat staid and dry. But you would be wrong. Since our musing last month on the growth of trade associations with the ridiculous, derivative, poorly spelt name of A4SomewhereOrAnother we welcome a new association. From the region of the world that gave you the Pavlova, the Hill’s hoist and the stump-jump plough comes the A4ANZ. No, not a show of airline support for a large antipodean bank. Rather, a new grouping of the airlines of Australia and New Zealand.
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The Additive Manufacture of Aviation Regulation
The Oslo Accord, which for the first time brought together the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and agreed a framework for peace in the Middle East, took nine months to negotiate, across a series of four rounds. Which puts into context the EU-US Open Skies Agreement, agreed ten years ago this month, after a mere seven years and 19 rounds.
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British Biz-Av; British Brexit
The clock has started on the UK’s exit from the European Union. Bremainers have not only been unable to stop the bandwagon, they’ve also been helpless to prevent a hardening Brexit. As a WTO-style trading relationship looks like an increasingly likely outcome in 2020, any business with an international outlook ought to be getting rattled. And few sectors are as internationally exposed as the business aviation sector.
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