Aviation Intelligence Reporter – June 2010
EBACE, harbinger of annual meetings
Getting what you pay for, and paying for what you get
Passenger Screening: form a queue to pay, but don’t tell anyone
Passenger Screening: form a queue to pay, but don’t tell anyone
Lawyer finds dumb client: Montreal Convention up-held again. Shock!
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Any visitor to EBACE, the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition, would be excused for thinking that the standard measure for cargo holds is golf club bags. Nothing is ever described in cubic metres, or tonnage. The real question is just exactly how many bags of golf clubs you can get on-board. Apparently, no real business aviation aircraft is well designed until one can prove empirically that you can load at least three times as many bags of golf clubs than you can load passengers. Imagine the horror of getting to some exotic location only to find your clubs not matching your outfit.
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Getting what you pay for, and paying for what you get
The ICAO charges guidelines for air navigation service provision are quite clear – ATM charges should be non-discriminatory, fair, reasonable and transparent. Very hard to argue with those principles. But it seems that the patron saint of ANSP pricing is Marx. Groucho Marx, not Karl. ‘Those are my principles,’ Groucho said, ‘and if you don’t like them, I have others’.
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Passenger Screening: form a queue to pay, but don’t tell anyone
At the end of April, under the volcano, two very important European Parliament votes were deferred. Now, they have come back with a vengeance. At first blush, they may look like two votes, on two subjects, but the more one looks at them, the clearer the connection between them becomes.
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Passenger Screening: form a queue to pay, but don’t tell anyone
When the volcano crisis erupted, everyone was afraid that aircraft would fall out of the sky. Then, as the crisis went on, some people started to worry that airlines would fall out of the sky. Clearly, that is much more worrying, so we changed our view on just how much volcanic ash was safe. …
Lawyer finds dumb client: Montreal Convention up-held again. Shock!
Every person deserves their day in court, and the role of an advocate is to make sure that their case is argued as eloquently as possible. But sometimes, sometimes, you have to hope that the good lawyer is one that tells his client that cruel as fortune is, there is no point wasting any money going to court.
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