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EBACE – one more use of the word ‘opportunity’ will be more than enough

As perhaps befits a conference and exhibition devoted to business and small aircraft flying, there are a number of dog-fights going on at EBACE – obviously, the most important is which will be the most abused cliche.  But there are a couple of others too.  The environment and how to bring BusAv into the European ETS being one.  Slots is another. In the red corner down at the cliche slam-down is ‘opportunity, not threat’.  One more use of the O word will be plenty.  Opportunity to grow, to consolidate, to get ahead etc etc.  Opportunity, not threat: right, got it.  In the blue corner is ‘flying through turbulance’.  So very droll. Not surprisingly, the EBAA/NBAA folk started the case for the opportunity side.  Stirring, troop rousing stuff.  Daniel Calleja, Director of air transport within DG TREN, after his mandatory apology for the non-appearance of Commissioner Tajini (does this man actually exist?) got the turbulance analogy underway.  But, he did so in a most unwelcome way (unwelcome for the hosts).  He said, yes, this is turbulance, but the aviation industry knows what to do with turbulance – does it for a living. Calleja is a friend of BusAv, knows the industry well, and is smart.  And in the time honoured diplomatic formulation that real friends tell the truth he was blunt.  Polite, but to the point anyway.  The ETS is here to stay, EASA is here to stay, SES is here to stay, he said.  Straighten up and fly right.

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