{"id":1457,"date":"2023-02-19T20:37:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2023-02-19T20:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T18:37:29","slug":"that-was-the-week-that-was-13-17-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Week That Was 13-17 February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>In Airspace, Size Really Does Matter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody gets into air traffic control for the glamour.&nbsp; Normally, ANSPs are the Red Cross of aviation, getting on with the job without fanfare or expectation of credit.&nbsp; Airlines and airports have marketing departments projecting their image, telling the world just how very marvellous they are.&nbsp; ANSPs just do what they have to do, resolving conflicts and keeping things running.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most aviation events, things like trade association AGMs, conferences and so on, are lucky to have an ATM speaker at all.&nbsp; Seldom, unless it is to complain about charges and delays, is ATM on the agenda.&nbsp; That is why the ANSP community organises its own conferences.&nbsp; And then things get really interesting.&nbsp; This usually quiet-mannered, own-business-minding community takes the gloves off.&nbsp; They come out fighting \u2013 themselves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>History is littered with the corpses of ATM conferences, each one supplanted, after much blood and guts have been spent, by a bigger and better (if they have to say so themselves) event in another part of the world.&nbsp; The supplanted event tries to limp on, at least for a year.&nbsp; From Maastricht to Amsterdam, to Washington DC, to Madrid and now to Geneva, a world tour of bitter, bloody fighting over ATM conferences, each step motivated by the possibility of sharing the spoils.&nbsp; There is money in ATM conferences, it just never seems to make its way to the ANSPs.&nbsp; And when the usually quiet and meek ATM community gets to fighting, it is bitter.&nbsp; There is nothing more horrid than a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next ATM conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/airspaceworld.com\/\">Airspace World<\/a>, is being organised by CANSO in Geneva, early next month.&nbsp; So right on cue, we are seeing some serious blue on blue attacks.&nbsp; The most recent one, via that well known fight cage venue LinkedIn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/airspaceworld_airspace-world-set-to-exceed-world-atm-congress-activity-7030598878986936320-DNG5?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_ios\">is typical<\/a>.&nbsp; Airspace World is set to exceed World ATM Congress we are told.&nbsp; My dad is bigger than your dad.&nbsp; Airspace World, organised by CANSO is likely to be \u2018bigger\u2019 than World ATM Congress, previously organised by, er\u2026 CANSO along with ATCA, the US-based member organisation.&nbsp; ATCA is going it alone in Madrid later this year, organising <a href=\"https:\/\/airspaceintegrationcongress.org\/\">Airspace Integration<\/a> with a logo and location that is trying to tell you that it is business as usual\u2026&nbsp; No doubt as September draws closer we will again be told about sizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big unanswered question in all of this is who measures these things, so that size comparisons can be made?&nbsp; Bigger in what sense?&nbsp; Is there a standard ATM Conference under a bell jar in Paris that we can use as a point of reference?&nbsp; We can only hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Airspace, Size Really Does Matter Nobody gets into air traffic control for the glamour.&nbsp; Normally, ANSPs are the Red Cross of aviation, getting on with the job without fanfare or expectation of credit.&nbsp; Airlines and airports have marketing departments projecting their image, telling the world just how very marvellous they are.&nbsp; ANSPs just do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,78,81,80],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-air-traffic-control","tag-ansp","tag-atca","tag-canso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}