Aviation Intelligence Reporter – May 2018
How to State Your Aid
How Karl Marx Would State Your Supra-National Regional Grouping Aid
Keep Calm and Carry On Brexiting
Thinking About Smart Tourism
Biz-Av: A Decade-Long Hangover
Auditor’s Single European Sky Report To Single European Graveyard
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How to State Your Aid
Apparently, April is State Aid month. There was a veritable glut of State Aid decisions last month. Next year we must make it a thing, with a logo, a furry mascot, a slogan and an official launch. In a ballroom. A ball is the bare minimum level of celebration called for. Everyone working in aviation in Brussels could then take their partner, get on the dance floor and trip the light fantastic doing the Snout to Trough Tango. It would be one of the balls of the season: black tie or national costume. Carriages at 02:00.
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How Karl Marx Would State Your Supra-National Regional Grouping Aid
The Commission’s decision to pay almost €10 million to superannuated former Air France employees was justified on the basis that Europe’s airlines lost international market share. There is a similar fund for companies to dip into in the US, the chronically underfunded Trade Adjustment Assistance program. Similarly to the situation in Europe, the US Congress allocates funds for the retraining of workers that have been displaced by any new trade deal. However, given the mood of the current Administration towards trade deals, that underfunding may not be a big deal.
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Creating an Environment for Considering Slots
Is it that slots are now back on the agenda or that now, slots never leave the agenda? Either way, demand for a more considered and mature consideration of slots is growing. The unconsidered consideration recites the Worldwide Slot Guidelines and walks away. There is no dispute that the guidelines have done yeoman service for a long time. So did rotary dial phones. Yes, it is true that the move from analogue to digital was technology-driven, and many of the arguments for reviewing and reshaping the slot rules are economic. But there are also technological drivers.
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Keep Calm and Carry On Brexiting
The Brexit negotiation is the gift that keeps on giving for political sketch writers and comedians. Even for some of them, the joke is losing its lustre. There is a limit to how many times one can laugh at such a sight. Nonetheless, as Britain reaches this particular fork in the crossroads, it was the turn of the aviation industry to look at the issues. You may recall that one of the UK Prime Minister’s ‘Red Lines’ for negotiating the terms of Brexit was that the UK would no longer be subject the European Court of Justice. So it is somewhat ironic that the court is now starting to receive the first Brexit-related cases. A Spanish court asked the ECJ whether EU trademark protection would still apply after the UK’s departure if the trademark was issued in Britain. An Irish court was asked if Ireland could extradite a convicted criminal to serve a sentence in Britain that would continue beyond the UK’s departure date.
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Thinking About Smart Tourism
If you ask anyone in the industry today, tourism and the environment are a match made in heaven. At the World Travel and Tourism Council’s global summit in Buenos Aires last month, Argentina announced that nature tourism is a key focus of the country. Bulgaria’s tourism minister discussed how consulting residents (shocker!) helps to balance growth with sustainability. Even Saudi Arabia hopes to hop on the bandwagon, promising thousands of pristine mountains and islands ripe for exploration.
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Biz-Av: A Decade-Long Hangover
The early 2000s were boom years for business aviation. By 2007, like many other sectors of the economy, the bubble was well and truly inflated, with new users flocking to the market and sales in excess of 1,000 new business jets a year. That may not sound like a huge volume, but extrapolated to a 10-year forecast, as provided by Honeywell at the time, and that equates to over $250 billion in brand new metal. Back then, the airframe manufacturers had bulging order books and very nice paper profits.
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