{"id":811,"date":"2018-04-13T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:43:24","slug":"that-was-the-week-that-was-09-13-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Week That Was: 09 \u2013 13 April"},"content":{"rendered":"To Zimbabwe, where on Monday<\/strong>, we learnt, again, how hard it is to prove who owns an aircraft<\/a> without the Cape Town Convention.\u00a0 There is a 777 in Harare at the moment with not one, not two, but five, yes five, different claims to ownership kicking around.\u00a0 Now that is a lawyer\u2019s picnic if it ever gets to court.\r\n\r\nThere may be five claims to ownership, but no-one doubts that the cash to purchase it came from the Zimbabwe Reserve Bank, or every Zimbabwean, as they might otherwise be known.\u00a0 ZimAirways, owned by the state, apparently supposed to be taking over the now virtually non-existent AirZim, might be the owner, or ZimAirways might be owned by diasporic Zimbabweans, not the state.\u00a0 Another version is that ZimAirways is now a locally held private company.\u00a0 Those locals appear to include the son-in-law of Robert Mugabe.\u00a0 The fourth possibility is that a company known as Zimbabwe Aviation Leasing owns it, via Mauritius.\u00a0 Finally, maybe the CFO of ZimAirways is the owner.\u00a0 He refuses to talk.\u00a0 The Cape Town registry might not be able to solve the local politics, but it will be definitive on who owns the aircraft and certainty is always a good thing.\r\n\r\nSo good is certainty that by Tuesday<\/strong> ACI Global was able to prove what we have been told for a long time now \u2013 the world is moving eastwards.\u00a0 The ACI\u2019s most recent review of airport traffic<\/a> showed quite clearly that the centre of gravity is moving towards Asia.\u00a0 Helping in that movement is that the low cost carriers in Europe, for the longest time the engine room of growth, change and disruption are now somewhere along the poacher \u2013 gamekeeper spectrum, but not at the poacher end.\u00a0 Talking at the ACI Economics conference, representatives of both Norwegian and Ryanair were increasingly comfortable with the IATA slot regulation, now that they have slots, thanks very much.\r\n\r\nBut the noise incumbency makes was being drowned out by the beating of the drums of a trade war.\u00a0 So with huge trepidation, the airport world looked to the office of the US Trade Representative as he released a \u2018List of Countries Denying Fair Market Opportunities for Government-Funded Airport Construction Projects<\/a>\u2019 on Wednesday<\/strong>.\u00a0 At the time of the drafting of the US Constitution, German was considered as America\u2019s national language.\u00a0 The every-noun-gets-a-capital obviously dates from then.\u00a0 So, on opening this list, sorry List, which Countries are in the frame?\u00a0 None.\u00a0 None.\u00a0 Now that was a let-down.\u00a0 Those that work on such projects report that they have to beg US firms to participate.\r\n\r\nThursday <\/strong>saw IATA make a bold dash into the zany acronyms arena.\u00a0 They have a new competition for start-up airlines \u2018to recognise pioneering ideas in the area of passenger experience from start-up companies\u2019.\u00a0 This is of course the GAPS award.\u00a0 As in \u2018mind the gap\u2019.\u00a0 It is short for Global Airports and Passenger Symposium.\u00a0 The single most innovative idea from the start-up airlines was \u2018low fares\u2019.\u00a0 It is a fascinating development.\u00a0 Is IATA attempting to colonise the start-up airlines, or yet again, are we on the poacher:gamekeeper interface?\r\n\r\nThe one interface that is not moving is Brexit.\u00a0 Willie Walsh has been Panglossianly telling everyone to keep calm and carry on, because magically, everything will turn out just fine, in this, the best of all possible worlds etc, but on Friday <\/strong>a Friday the 13th<\/sup>, the Commission assumed the role of the vulgar Bulgars, releasing a note<\/a> explaining that after Brexit, the UK will not have access to Europe\u2019s safety regulator, or regulations.\u00a0 The UK will have to find and rely on its own \u2018competent authorities\u2019.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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