{"id":816,"date":"2018-04-27T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=816"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:43:16","slug":"that-was-the-week-that-was-23-27-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Week That Was: 23 \u2013 27 April"},"content":{"rendered":"In last month\u2019s Aviation Intelligence Reporter<\/em> we spent some time discussing if we are now at peak trade association.\u00a0 Increasingly, we are seeing single issue groupings address particular concerns.\u00a0 Often these staffed by lobbyists and public affairs staff of companies with clients in many sectors.\u00a0 So the question is what can the bricks and mortar, real live membership organisations do for us?\u00a0 IATA is determined to show that they add value by touring the world preaching the value of standards.\u00a0 This week, they were in Doha, and on Monday<\/strong>, at their annual ground handling conference their VP for Airports, Passengers, Cargo and Security, Nick Careen, focused on three things<\/a>: global standards, increased collaboration and new technology.\u00a0 That is fine, except they are self-contradictory.\u00a0 There is no need for collaboration if everyone is applying standards, and new technologies will call for new standards, so the old ones are otiose.\u00a0 If there wasn\u2019t an IATA, someone would invent one.\u00a0 IATA is the keeper of interlining, one of the greatest pieces of industrial engineering the world has ever seen, but it needs to think through its messaging.\r\n\r\nBy Tuesday<\/strong> the excitement of the ground handling conference was fading, but ICAO was at the World Travel and Tourism Council summit in Buenos Aires, extolling the virtues<\/a> of safe and secure travel to the development of aviation.\u00a0 If IATA\u2019s message on Monday was self-contradictory, Dr Fang Lui\u2019s was self-evident.\u00a0 A good test of the robustness of a particular statement is to test it in reverse.\u00a0 Imagine ICAO\u2019s message the other way around.\u00a0 Unsafe and insecure travel is not likely to encourage travel. The unspoken element of the messaging is, of course, about who should pay for safety and security.\r\n\r\nThat is always a good topic for discussion and on Wednesday<\/strong> the ACI released a new airside security handbook.\u00a0 It promotes the use of common sense \u2013 a scarce resource \u2013 but also, implicitly accepts that the industry has a role to play.\u00a0 Normally, the industry position is to hold out the begging bowl, whilst wailing like the widows of Cannae.\u00a0 To actually accept responsibility is to take a step towards accepting that the industry is free standing and not dependant on government funding.\u00a0 It is to start to behave like an adult industry not an infant one.\r\n\r\nThursday<\/strong> saw Dr Lui\u2019s world tour continue, with a stop in Berlin to talk with Chancellor Merkel.\u00a0 There she delivered news<\/a> that will come as a blow to IATA \u2013 it turns out that ICAO is the aviation industry\u2019s standard setter.\u00a0 The clash between the role of the State and industry is becoming clearer.\u00a0 Where do we want the line to be drawn?\u00a0 How responsible do we want to be?\u00a0 Completely, when there is good news, not so much in other circumstances.\u00a0 Still Dr Lui did stretch out a hand of friendship to industry \u2013 she moved her messaging from the self-evident to the self-contradictory, perhaps as homage.\u00a0 She is looking forward to an expanded growth scenario aviation future that is both greener and more hyper-sonic.\r\n\r\nAfter a week like that you might think a drink is in order, and United would be delighted to help you with their announcement<\/a> on Friday <\/strong>of new catering on various flights.\u00a0 Remarkably, this apparently includes United becoming \u2018the first airline to offer Stella Artois on domestic and international flights this summer\u2019.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 Has anyone spoken to Brussels Airlines about that?\u00a0 OK, not on their domestic services, granted, but international flights have had Stella available for some years.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In last month\u2019s Aviation Intelligence Reporter we spent some time discussing if we are now at peak trade association.\u00a0 Increasingly, we are seeing single issue groupings address particular concerns.\u00a0 Often these staffed by lobbyists and public affairs staff of companies with clients in many sectors.\u00a0 So the question is what can the bricks and mortar, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11,33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-airports","category-international-air-transport-association","category-international-civil-aviation-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}