{"id":842,"date":"2018-06-22T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:43:03","slug":"that-was-the-week-that-was-18-22-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Week That Was: 18 \u2013 22 June"},"content":{"rendered":"The world aviation industry AGM show, a three week, three venue extravaganza, finally rolled into Brussels this week, on the last leg of a tour that had been from Sydney for the IATA AGM, via Bangkok, for the CANSO event to the ACI World (and indeed ACI-Europe) meeting.\u00a0 It is a testing three weeks.\u00a0 Once, the DGs of the three organisations mutually pledged to each attend all of the AGMs, but somehow, they had other things to do on the day.\u00a0 Few and far between are those that attend all three.\r\n\r\nSo on Monday<\/strong> evening, when the ACI event kicked off with a reception at Brussels\u2019 Mus\u00e9e des Beaux Arts, some were thinking of Icarus.\u00a0 There is a masterpiece by Bruegel of him plunging into the sea the museum.\u00a0 Well may one ask what the aviation industry\u2019s fascination with Icarus is?\u00a0 IATA has a conference room named after him.\u00a0 So does SITA.\u00a0 Airbus had a subsidiary company called Icarus.\u00a0 Relevantly, the interesting news on Monday was that in Norway, Avinor, the State-owned airport and ANSP operator demonstrated electric-powered flight<\/a>.\u00a0 Short-haul only at this stage, they concede.\u00a0 Icarus would surely approve.\r\n\r\nTuesday<\/strong> was highjacked by Eamonn Brennan of Eurocontrol.\u00a0 He was speaking at the ACI AGM and dropped onto the table its new report about the \u2018challenges\u2019 to growth for Europe.\u00a0 It does not make pleasant reading.\u00a0 Not enough airports, not enough new ways of thinking about ATM.\u00a0 Growth is predicted to rise relentlessly.\u00a0 There is nothing about the way we do things now that give us hope for the future.\u00a0 Traffic has increased by 3.4% but en-route delays have risen from 0.46 minutes per flight to 1.05 minutes per flight.\u00a0 Of course nobody has a 1 minute delay.\u00a0 That is the average.\u00a0 It actually means that some people have three hour delays.\u00a0 As we mentioned last week, the estimated amount of delay for 2018 has already been exceeded.\u00a0 Sure, as the A4E will tell you, 28% of this delay is down to \u2018disruptive events\u2019 which means strikes and 27% to weather. \u00a0However, 55% is caused by staffing\/capacity issues, notably in Germany, France and the Low Countries.\u00a0 According to Eurocontrol, by 2040, 1.5 million flights \u2013 160 million passengers \u2013 will be unable to fly.\u00a0 Europe\u2019s traditional solution to this crunch has been to hope for a crisis and thus an economic downturn.\u00a0 Failing to plan means planning to fail etc\u2026\r\n\r\nAfter that bombshell, the ACI announcement on airport ownership, and privatisation in particular was put in the background.\u00a0 The study was a repost to the IATA work<\/a>, announced at their AGM, on alternative ways to fund the necessary infrastructure Brennan was talking about (hint, not by the privatised airlines).\r\n\r\nThe A4E chimed in on Wednesday <\/strong>with its standard issue blast about ATM strikes and the numbers of passengers disrupted.\u00a0 A summer of discontent looms.\u00a0 CANSO stood by remarkably mute during all of these dire predictions.\r\n\r\nThe ACI privatisation study may have been upstaged on the day, but it did set off the predictable barrage of responses, including, by Thursday<\/strong> another shot in the slot control debate.\u00a0 This time, IATA announced<\/a> that its slot guidelines had delivered \u2018unprecedented\u2019 choice and competition.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a fascinating use of the word \u2018unprecedented\u2019.\u00a0 To the extent it means that no other system of choice or competition had been tried, it is of course true, but to be polite, disingenuous in the extreme.\r\n\r\nFriday<\/strong> is reserved for the pilots of Air France and KLM, who have written an open letter<\/a> to the board setting out their demands for any new CEO.\u00a0 The post mark of this missive is clearly the central post office of Cloud Cuckoo Land\u2026","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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