Aviation Intelligence Reporter – September 2015
Getting What You Pay For; Paying For What You Get
Is Lufthansa Breaking the Mould, or Just Trying to Make Dough?
For Sale: Shopping Centre with Attached Runway
My Drone or i-Drone?
How Do We Solve A Problem Like Gibraltar?
Aviation Advocacy Crossword 007 – Solution
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Shakespeare may have liked of each that in its season grew, but in aviation, only one thing grows in the summer season: congestion. As people take off on summer holidays demand for air travel rises and aircraft, airports and the airspace become congested.
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Is Lufthansa Breaking the Mould, or Just Trying to Make Dough?
The end of summer holidays is never a happy time. But this year online travel agents are unhappier than most. They return to their desks, tanned and relaxed, only to face Lufthansa´s new online travel agents’ transaction fee. If the OTAs´ consternation is taken at face value, Lufthansa is threatening their very livelihood. Holidays will be a thing of the past. The Ferrari will need to go back to the dealer.
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For Sale: Shopping Centre with Attached Runway
As anyone who has flown recently would attest, airports are increasingly more like places to shop than places to leave. Just as one of the meta-trends for airlines is the rapid changing of business models, so it is for airports. Arguably, there are now more airline business models to choose from than there are airport business models. Airports’ business models seem solely to focus on maximising non-aeronautical revenues.
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My Drone or i-Drone?
Aviation is airspace plus airframes, according to Professor Raja Sengupta of Berkeley University in California. So what are going to do with the new small UAVs? They are airframes, but currently, they are largely prohibited from accessing the airspace. Almost nowhere are they allowed beyond line of sight, and nowhere are they allowed into controlled airspace. That is not strictly true, hawk-shaped drones are used at a number of airports to scare away the birds. But that is a very narrow exception.
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How Do We Solve A Problem Like Gibraltar?
George and Ira Gershwin used the rock of Gibraltar as a symbol of immovable, unshakeable permanence, along with the Rockies, even if, being made of clay as it is, it was not as immovable as ‘our love’, which you may recall ‘is here to stay’. But that love, and the rock itself is nothing compared to the stubbornness of both Spain and the UK when it comes to how to deal with the British overseas territory in modern Europe.
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Aviation Advocacy Crossword 007 – Solution
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