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Aviation Intelligence Reporter – June 2009

Written by Admin-AIR-NEw on . Posted in 2009, AIR


Business Aviation – Cliché, custom and the way forward
Slots – not even the coordinators are coordinated
What the European election means for aviation
Round three in negotiating round two of the EU-US Open Skies deal
Updating the Rome Convention causes damage on the ground

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Business Aviation – Cliché, custom and the way forward

As perhaps befits a conference and exhibition devoted to business and small aircraft flying, there were a number of dog-fights going on at EBACE – the European Business Aviation Conference, held in Geneva in May. Obviously, the most important was to see which would be the most abused cliché. Yes, it was ‘opportunity, not threat’ versus ‘flying through turbulence’. So very droll.
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Slots – not even the coordinators are coordinated

Slots are shaping up as the big aviation story of the new European parliament. There are three strands that need to be watched to make sense of this.
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What the European election means for aviation

In early June Europe will go to the poll in one of the world’s great tributes to the timehonoured saying that all politics is local politics. Despite increasing its power, the European Parliament, and its MEPs continue to disappear in a sea of apathy in the electorate.
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Round three in negotiating round two of the EU-US Open Skies deal

In the middle of June the Commission will host the US negotiating team to talk, again, about the next round of the EU-US Open Skies deal. At some levels not much has changed, and you might ask why is this negotiation happening? At other levels, much is changing. It will be fascinating.
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Updating the Rome Convention causes damage on the ground

ICAO headquarters can be a strange place. Last month ICAO delegates spent two weeks in a Fracophone city, in a Stalinist building, following Byzantium procedures, discussing updating Rome. No, not finally finishing the coliseum or anything like that – updating the Rome Convention on damage to third parties on the ground, caused by aircraft.
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