Posts Tagged ‘Security’

Aviation Intelligence Reporter – May 2010


Big Bang Reform?
Why we have trade associations
Security Screening: Form an orderly queue to pay
Spectrum – Waves and means


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Big Bang Reform?

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth in strange eruptions, as Shakespeare said, and we saw many such strange eruptions during the volcanic ash crisis. Most of them seemed to come from IATA’s combative DG.

Why we have trade associations

If nothing else, Eyjafjallajokull has given us pause to consider the philosophical question of why have a trade association. What is it that a trade association can do that individual members cannot?

Security Screening: Form an orderly queue to pay

Every (ash) cloud has a silver lining, and for airlines, the silver lining might have been to stop the European Parliament deciding the vexed issue of security charges. The airlines live to fight another day on this one.

Spectrum – Waves and means

Spectrum requirements for aviation are like the radio waves themselves: ubiquitous and not dreadfully well understood. Management tends to assume that spectrum is too dry and too technical for their finely tuned brains to worry about. This is something for folk with pens of various colours in their top pocket.