Aviation Intelligence Reporter – May 2015
Consequential Unintended Consequences
Passing on Airport Savings, or Passing on Passing on Savings?
Creating Space for a Space Race
Asymmetric Employment? No, Asymmetric Thinking
Perceptions of Business Aviation: Back into the Fray
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click hereConsequential Unintended Consequences
The concerted campaign against the Gulf carriers by the US legacy carriers, aided and abetted by their European allies, has produced some remarkable unintended consequences already. In just two months the legacy carriers have successfully highlighted their lack of competitive product, their xenophobia and their subjective definition of ‘fair’ – as in ‘unfair competition’. It is best when using that phrase to do your best spoilt 10 year old child impersonation.
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Passing on Airport Savings, or Passing on Passing on Savings?
It is certain that European aviation is reshaping. BA and Iberia think of themselves as low cost carriers now. In the meantime easyJet has published a report by the economic consultants Frontier Economics that attempts to measure the positive impact of some suggested improvements to airport regulation in Europe. Once upon a time, it would have been impossible to imagine a low cost carrier paying a high cost consultant to produce a study like this. They were too busy operating to low cost airports.
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Creating Space for a Space Race
The Soviet Union did not attend the Chicago Conference. Its emissaries travelled as far as Canada, en-route to Chicago, before being called back, purportedly in protest of certain fascist governments having been invited. Some unauthorised delegates attended as observers, but nevertheless, the Soviet Union did not become a party to the Chicago Convention, nor a member of ICAO, until 1970.
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Asymmetric Employment? No, Asymmetric Thinking
Late last year and earlier this year, there was much chatter about what was called ‘asymmetric employment’ in the aviation industry. This odd phrase described the growing practice of airlines no longer employing their staff as full time employees. Rather, self-employed contractors have a relationship with the airline.
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Perceptions of Business Aviation: Back into the Fray
It´s EBACE time again, so time for the world´s second largest business jet market to reassemble and promote its wares. More generally the industry will hope to gain some momentum on the back of North America´s robust recovery. In the background, the show´s organisers will be banging the drum, manfully persevering in their efforts to persuade us of the importance and value of business aviation to the wider economy.
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