{"id":831,"date":"2018-06-01T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=831"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:43:07","slug":"that-was-the-week-that-was-28-may-1-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Week That Was: 28 May \u2013 1 June"},"content":{"rendered":"Last week, you may recall, we discussed the concept of airlines creating the random holiday generator, a lucky dip scheme that sends you on a holiday to the destination of their choice.\u00a0 Not to be outdone, the Air France entry in the legacy lower-cost long-haul stakes, Joon, has its own product that in effect crowdsources holidays.\u00a0 On Monday <\/strong>it launched another innovative product. \u00a0We were promised innovation at Joon, and here it is.\u00a0 In this scheme, friends get together and create a kitty of funds to send one of the group on a holiday. \u00a0It is called PaperPlane<\/a>.\u00a0 Ask yourself, which friend do you have that you want to make sure leaves on a holiday without you?\u00a0 Given the situation at Air France, it is difficult not to see other reasons why it is looking into ways to crowdsource funds\u2026\r\n\r\nIt is not totally clear from the press release exactly how this works, but at least and at last, on the GDPR, which has created a certain amount of uncertainty, help is at hand. \u00a0On Tuesday<\/strong> a reader sent his wonderful shot of a slide from the good people at the European Data Protection Board, who have explained the process.\u00a0 It is simple really, nothing more than a one stop shop\u2026\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nIt is to be hoped that this clears things up for you.\r\n\r\nBy Wednesday<\/strong>, EBACE, Europe\u2019s business aviation exhibition was in full swing in Geneva.\u00a0 Suppliers, operators and manufacturers were falling over each other to announce changes and improvements.\u00a0 EBACE is always worth a visit, if only to see the permanent dichotomy of trying to prove that business aviation is a tool for business and a force for good, whilst setting up stands and selling by appealing to the luxury and glamour involved.\r\n\r\nBut the habit of calling something what it is not, or at least renaming something we already know, reached new heights on Thursday<\/strong> when a Finnish research group announced<\/a> that they were looking at a smart logistics corridor as a service.\u00a0 This will apparently be environmentally friendly and wonderful in so many ways.\u00a0 The \u2018this\u2019 in that sentence, the corridor as a service, is perhaps better known as \u2018a road\u2019.\u00a0 Which seems like a good moment to also talk about Arrivo<\/a>, a start-up which is trying to push its idea that much of the road space is currently wasted.\u00a0 Even in heavy traffic, only 15% of the road is actually occupied.\u00a0 Their proposal then is to place the cars in frames and move the road, not the cars through corridors on a mag-lev platform.\u00a0 Simple really\u2026\r\n\r\nBy Friday<\/strong>, airline executives from around the world were starting their journey to Sydney for IATA\u2019s AGM, or as the IATA press machine<\/a> put it \u2013 Sydney will be the centre of world aviation.\u00a0 That can only beg one question: where is the centre normally?","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, you may recall, we discussed the concept of airlines creating the random holiday generator, a lucky dip scheme that sends you on a holiday to the destination of their choice.\u00a0 Not to be outdone, the Air France entry in the legacy lower-cost long-haul stakes, Joon, has its own product that in effect crowdsources […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11,16,33,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-airports","category-climate-change","category-international-air-transport-association","category-low-cost-carriers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}