{"id":786,"date":"2018-03-09T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=786"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:43:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:43:37","slug":"that-was-the-week-that-was-march-5-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Week That Was: 5 – 9 March"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>It was a week that was for contemplating international relations, with a side dish of Brexit.\u00a0 On Monday<\/strong>, the Financial Times reported<\/a> that US have offered the UK a worse open skies deal than that currently in place for the EU.\u00a0 Quelle surprise.<\/em>\u00a0 The negotiations \u2013 the UK is not supposed to negotiate with third countries until after Brexit is finalized, so strictly, speaking, negotiations about what negotiations might be about \u2013 have gone into extra time.\u00a0 Negotiators (negotiate-about-negotiators?) stayed on.\u00a0 Diaries were rescheduled.\u00a0 So, the FT was likely accurate.\u00a0 That is not good news.\u00a0 The inconceivable is that there will be no scheduled services between the UK and the US, at least for a time.\u00a0 Inconceivable like Brexit?\u00a0 Like Trump\u2019s election? \u00a0There probably will be services, but at what price for the UK?\r\n\r\nMeanwhile in Madrid, the CANSO membership was asked to consider their future.\u00a0 Trade war alert \u2013 a sizable minority, certainly a non-ignorable minority, do not want any new style ANSPs to be admitted as members.\u00a0 UTM providers, companies that provide services at towers are not traditional ANSPs, they argued.\u00a0 They can be Associates.\u00a0 Ah ha \u2013 they like their money, just not their business models.\u00a0 Or is it that they actually have business models they don\u2019t like?\r\n\r\nOn Tuesday<\/strong>, Willie Walsh responded<\/a> to the FT article: \u2018There will be a comprehensive open skies agreement. Anybody who doesn\u2019t believe that is living in cloud cuckoo land. It is absolute madness.\u2019\u00a0 The FT, he said, was \u2018the Fake Times\u2019.\u00a0 Walsh also said that he thinks that airports should merely be \u2018sheds\u2019 into which his first-class passengers will no doubt enjoy being herded.\u00a0 It was an A4E jamboree and predictably, the national sport of the A4E \u2013 airport bashing \u2013 was engaged in at full throttle.\r\n\r\nDriving this frenzy on was the unrelenting drum beat of President Trump\u2019s trade war.\u00a0 So Qatar\u2019s embassy in Brussels tweeting that it had just signed an Air Services Agreement with Belgium was not welcome news. \u00a0Qatar and the EU are currently negotiating an open skies pact.\u00a0 It would be bad form for a bout of divide and conquer to take place.\u00a0 Turns out, the ASA between was initialled before the EU mandate was granted and only formally signed March 6.\r\n\r\nOn Wednesday<\/strong>, the EU rejected<\/a> the UK\u2019s plans for a post-Brexit EU trade relationship.\u00a0 European Council President Donald Tusk circulated a new set of draft guidelines<\/a> on Brexit reinforcing the EU position that the UK will be out of the single market.\u00a0 In a statement<\/a> following the release, however, tantalisingly, Tusk remarked that he is \u2018determined to avoid that particularly absurd consequence of Brexit that is the disruption of flights between the UK and the EU.\u2019\u00a0 Laudable, but neither Tusk nor the draft guidelines offer any insights into how this will be achieved.\u00a0 And what about the Commission line of no negotiations on sectoral agreements?\r\n\r\nNo less baffling is Theresa May saying that the UK is willing to stay in EASA.\u00a0 But what about the ECJ Red Line?\u00a0 Anything contradictory the EU can do, the UK can do better.\r\n\r\nOn Thursday<\/strong> Walsh\u2019s fears of airports as not-sheds went into cyber space.\u00a0 Frankfurt airport was awarded<\/a> the prize of being the best e-commerce platform in the airport and travel sector.\u00a0 The future of airports crystallises.\u00a0 No need at all for bricks and mortar.\u00a0 Just a runway and a shed.\u00a0 Sorted.\r\n\r\nFriday,<\/strong> the airports, mad as hell, signalled they are not taking it anymore.\u00a0 Sick of the gratuitous bashing the A4E dishes out, they published their own \u2018verified facts<\/a>\u2019.\u00a0 It is hard to see \u2018Verified Facts\u2019 having the same ring as \u2018Fake News\u2019 but we live in hope.\u00a0 It would certainly slow down the flow of words thrown about if there was a need for verification \u2013 or is that to live in cloud cuckoo land?\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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