Aviation Intelligence Reporter – July 2013
The IATA AGM: Anchoring at the Cape of Good Intentions
The ACI AGM: Tears Before Bedtime
The CANSO AGM: ANSPs Feeling the Heat
Finding a Buyer for Market Based Measures
Down and Out in Brussels and Paris
The New Age of Distribution: Pending Approval.
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click hereThe IATA AGM: Anchoring at the Cape of Good Intentions
Stop the presses! Regular readers of the Aviation Intelligence Reporter will know that one of the grand unified theories of aviation is that if Ryanair is asking, the answer is ‘No’. It seems that the UK CAA is not a regular reader. The British regulators have said ‘Yes’ to Ryanair, upholding Ryanair’s challenge to Gatwick Airport’s charging practices.
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The ACI AGM: Tears Before Bedtime
The crowd-pleaser of Europe’s annual business aviation conference, EBACE 2013, was John Travolta, who headed up Bombardier’s launch of its latest super midsize jet, the Challenger 350. Aeroplane launches tend to steal the limelight at industry conventions, and this one far out-shone the more prosaic and yet far more relevant concerns of policy and productivity promoted by the EBAA in its discussion forums.
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The CANSO AGM: ANSPs Feeling the Heat
‘Sometimes,’ Sigmund Freud said, ‘a cigar is just a cigar.’ Good advice to keep in mind when discussing emissions. Discuss them we did, at May’s ATAG-organised Environment con-flab. Freud’s words are relevant because, for all the brave facery, there were two ways to interpret most of what was said.
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Finding a Buyer for Market Based Measures
Canada’s Foreign Service has a huge reputation for its diplomacy skills. Many of the world’s great international treaties owe their existence to the Canadian penchant for mediation and negotiation. The Law of the Sea, the Landmines Convention and aviation’s own Cape Town Convention are just a few examples of treaties saved, or made considerably better, by the Canadian Corps Diplomatique. Maybe it is sharing a border with a superpower; maybe it is the bilingualism that includes French, the traditional language of diplomacy that gives the Canadians this edge.
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Down and Out in Brussels and Paris
When Saint Denis walked the seven kilometres across Paris with his severed head in his hands, the legend adds that the hardest part was the first step. The first and hardest part of the FAA-EASA safety agreement is now so far in the dim past – though only two years old – that the June meeting in Paris will be a matter of trundling easily along.
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The New Age of Distribution: Pending Approval.
The previous DG of IATA, Giovanni Bisignani, is not a tall man, but he can make big statements. He appears to have gathered them all in a new slim book, with the modest title Shaking the Skies. The subtitle says it all, ‘The untold story of change in aviation since 9/11 and the biggest organisational turnaround in history’.
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