{"id":16,"date":"2009-05-13T16:32:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2009-07-20T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T09:00:34","slug":"ebace-one-more-use-of-the-word-opportunity-will-be-more-than-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"EBACE &#8211; one more use of the word &#8216;opportunity&#8217; will be more than enough"},"content":{"rendered":"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 &#8211; obviously, the most important is which will be the most abused cliche.\u00a0 But there are a couple of others too.\u00a0 The environment and how to bring BusAv into the European ETS being one.\u00a0 Slots is another.\r\n\r\nIn the red corner down at the cliche slam-down is &#8216;opportunity, not threat&#8217;.\u00a0 One more use of the O word will be plenty.\u00a0 Opportunity to grow, to consolidate, to get ahead etc etc.\u00a0 Opportunity, not threat: right, got it.\u00a0 In the blue corner is &#8216;flying through turbulance&#8217;.\u00a0 So very droll.\r\n\r\nNot surprisingly, the EBAA\/NBAA folk started the case for the opportunity side.\u00a0 Stirring, troop rousing stuff.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 But, he did so in a most unwelcome way (unwelcome for the hosts).\u00a0 He said, yes, this is turbulance, but the aviation industry knows what to do with turbulance &#8211; does it for a living.\r\n\r\nCalleja is a friend of BusAv, knows the industry well, and is smart.\u00a0 And in the time honoured diplomatic formulation that real friends tell the truth he was blunt.\u00a0 Polite, but to the point anyway.\u00a0 The ETS is here to stay, EASA is here to stay, SES is here to stay, he said.\u00a0 Straighten up and fly right.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; obviously, the most important is which will be the most abused cliche.\u00a0 But there are a couple of others too.\u00a0 The environment and how to bring BusAv into the European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","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=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}