Aviation Intelligence Reporter – August 2015
A Competitive European Aviation Industry Begins at Home
Making Europe’s Airlines More Competitive? Each to His Own…
Tracking Flight Tracking
When There is Only One Outsourced Provider, That is Still a Monopoly
Taking Control of Drones
Of Sanctions and Oligarchs
Aviation Advocacy Cryptic Crossword No 007
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click hereA Competitive European Aviation Industry Begins at Home
The distance between Europe and America can be significant. The Atlantic not only creates a three thousand mile physical obstacle but the European insistence on measuring that gap in kilometres, a preference for manual rather than automatic cars and a fondness for smelly cheeses also creates cultural divides.
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Making Europe’s Airlines More Competitive? Each to His Own…
The issues identified above, arising from the consultation to make the European industry competitive, address making the entire aviation industry more efficient – an honourable goal – but will do nothing to make any one player in Europe more competitive. Unless we do that, we will continue in current malaise, just with lower costs.
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Tracking Flight Tracking
We are now approaching the final preparation for the next World Radio Conference, to be held in Geneva later this year. So where are we with the work being done frantically in the flight tracking area? Indeed, why are we even at the WRC15?
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When There is Only One Outsourced Provider, That is Still a Monopoly
The Directors General of not one, not two, not even three, but four Directorates General of the European Commission were summoned to a meeting in the offices of the President of the Commission, Jean Claude Junker, in the last week of July. An act of aggression, you might think, to ask DGs of the European Commission to forego their sacred summer holiday plans. What could possibly be that important? Saving the Performance Review Body.
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Taking Control of Drones
Walk into any Apple store in the United States and you can buy a drone. Indeed, you have a choice of two. French-made drones, much to the chagrin of the nascent US drone industry; one with a camera already mounted, for your straight-out-of-the-box immediate use. The Chinese company DJI expects to sell more than a million drones this year. This is the industry segment that ICAO is expecting to regulate and some in the industry are now calling to be banned in response to some idiotic behaviour. Right.
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Of Sanctions and Oligarchs
Twelve months on from the downing of MH17 and no surprise that the West´s sanctions regime on Russia has been extended. The broad intent was to sap Russia´s power projection by undermining the economy. Abetted by a sharp fall in oil prices, that seems to be working out nicely, with Russia´s GDP firmly in recession this year. A more specific goal was to target President Putin´s cronies, particularly the billionaire businessmen who control much of Russia´s industrial might. All are among Russia´s regular business jet users, and as such the trend in the country´s flight activity since last year might offer an insight into the impact of such targeted sanctions.
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Aviation Advocacy Cryptic Crossword No 007
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