{"id":74,"date":"2010-04-28T10:08:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T08:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2010-04-28T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T08:08:43","slug":"every-ash-cloud-has-a-silver-lining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Every (ash) cloud has a silver lining"},"content":{"rendered":"A week like no other has left everyone in the entire aviation industry reeling.\u00a0 Whilst many controllers, flight attendants and pilots had very little to do, airport staff and management were working overtime.\r\n\r\nIt is probably still too early to be able to come to any definitive conclusions, but some issues are becoming clear.\r\n\r\nFirst, much ink was spilt, and many fingers pointed, trying to find an appropriate scapegoat.\u00a0 World champion contender blame-shifters at IATA blamed anyone but their airline members.\u00a0 The fault was clearly that of the governments around the world.\u00a0 This was a little disappointing; one might have hoped they had at least one attempt at pinning some of the blame on some sort of divine power.\u00a0 Thor perhaps, or Vulcan himself.\r\n\r\nSecondly, once it was clear that coordinated action was called for, the current system was found wanting.\u00a0 The question that needs to be answered is what might be the right model.\u00a0 That is hard.\u00a0 Another question might be whether we have the collective courage to answer that properly.\r\n\r\nBecause the real answer might be Europe.\u00a0 Or perhaps more accurately, a revised Eurocontrol, reporting to DG MOVE.\u00a0 Not a committee of national administrators, not a committee of ANSPs, DG MOVE.\u00a0 After watching national CAAs and ANSPs fail to find a means of coordinating, DG MOVE stepped in, with a video call hook-up.\u00a0 The semiotics of that are delightful.\r\n\r\nAnd one of the big questions that is starting to dawn is why is that not the case now?\u00a0 It is impossible to explain to a lay-person why there are ANSPs for national airspace, when clearly this is not a national issue.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week like no other has left everyone in the entire aviation industry reeling.\u00a0 Whilst many controllers, flight attendants and pilots had very little to do, airport staff and management were working overtime. It is probably still too early to be able to come to any definitive conclusions, but some issues are becoming clear. First, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aviation-regulation","tag-volcanic-ash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}