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The Scottish Referendum, Aviation and Opportunity

The Scottish referendum has been run and determined, but so far, it seems to me that there has not been enough analysis of the impact of the decision on aviation. This is remarkable – normally there is no end of punditry that we have to wade through – normally, everything has to have an impact on aviation. That is the price we pay for thinking the world revolves around us I guess. So, what is the impact? Frist, given that the very first thing that new governments seem to want is a new flag and a national carrier, we lost out on the chance to have a new airline. Not British Caledonian, just Caledonian perhaps. Given that what we want is less airlines, not more, that is a good thing, but a good thing that will upset all the consultants and brand designers and advisors and experts that will miss out on healthy retainers. The Scottish airports will lose out as well. An independent Scotland would clearly need flash airports. Could the revival of the revival of Prestwick have been far behind? On the up side, and making one possibly heroic assumption, maybe at long last we would have had one, only one, genuinely functional Air Traffic Management Functional Airspace Block, or FAB. If NATS continued to provide ATM for all parts of the British Isles (except, of course, the Irish part of the British Isles) we would have what the Commission has been asking for – cross border sectorisation and a real live FAB with single management and single operations. The heroic assumption of course, is that the Scottish government did not decide that its airspace should be managed entirely by its very own ANSP. You would not want to bet against that happening of course…

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