{"id":18,"date":"2009-06-08T11:53:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T09:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2009-07-20T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T08:59:52","slug":"iata-goes-back-to-the-kl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"IATA goes back to the KL"},"content":{"rendered":"When all else fails, KL will pop up for an IATA meeting &#8211; this week it is the AGM.\u00a0 And a flood of press releases has been raining down on us.\u00a0 The first, least happy of course being the doubling of the losses.\u00a0 These are hard times for airlines.\r\n\r\nMost entertaining was the new deadline for airlines to go carbon neutral &#8211; you may remember that the old challenge was 2050.\u00a0 A good date that, well into someone else&#8217;s watch.\u00a0 Now, the deadline has\u00a0\u00a0 been brought forward to 2020.\u00a0 Why did they choose that date I wonder.\u00a0 Wait a minute, could it be that someone somewhere inside the bowels of IATA realised that the rest of the world had been talking about that as our target date for action under the new CopenhagenProtocol (lovingly known as Kyoto2 &#8211; not sure who would be the more surprised to discover they were being compared with the other as cities) for about, oh, let me see, oh, 3 years.\r\n\r\nNever knowingly late our friends at IATA.\r\n\r\nIt is part of a bigger picture, one that sees IATA move 180 degrees on the environment &#8211; whilst never losing sight of the famous 4 pillars of course.\u00a0 Thank heavens they did not call them principles.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When all else fails, KL will pop up for an IATA meeting &#8211; this week it is the AGM.\u00a0 And a flood of press releases has been raining down on us.\u00a0 The first, least happy of course being the doubling of the losses.\u00a0 These are hard times for airlines. Most entertaining was the new deadline [&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-18","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\/18","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=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}