{"id":850,"date":"2018-08-03T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:42:47","slug":"that-was-the-holiday-that-was-30-july-3-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"That Was The Holiday That Was"},"content":{"rendered":"We all deserve a summer break.\u00a0 TWTWTW is no exception.\u00a0 But aviation never stops.\u00a0 Indeed the northern summer is its busiest period.\u00a0 How long that remains the case is not to diss the fliers of the northern hemisphere \u2013 seemingly committed to breaking records for flights and passengers numbers \u2013 but to note how fast other regions grow.\u00a0 On current evidence: pretty fast.\u00a0 Still, those plucky Europeans are doing their best, with the busiest day ever for flights happening in July this year.\u00a0 Eurocontrol has covered this in its \u2018Challenges of Growth\u2019 report.\u00a0 Recommended reading.\u00a0<!--more-->\r\n\r\nA holiday is a great chance to catch up with all those industry magazines that arrive during the working week, working month and working quarter.\u00a0 Good intentions to read each and every one of them in detail can be swamped by the ceaseless grind of the day-to-day.\u00a0 So TWTWTW took its holiday to look at what the most recent crop of magazines produced.\u00a0 A fascinating read.\r\n\r\nWhat is compelling the attention of the editors of these industry journals \u2013 that sounds so much nicer than industry rags, doesn\u2019t it? \u2013 can be reduced to one word: Brexit.\u00a0 Brexit dominates magazines from <em>Air Traffic Management <\/em>to <em>Jane\u2019s Airport Review<\/em> by way of <em>Airport International<\/em> and the Royal Aeronautical Society\u2019s <em>Aerospace.<\/em>\u00a0 First into the \u2018wish I had said that\u2019 file were the very clever words of Aerospace\u2019s Howard Wheldon, who noted \u2018the devilish detail\u2019 of Brexit.\u00a0 That devilish detail is inspected in detail in this quarter\u2019s round of magazines.\u00a0 Generally, the view is that nobody knows, but that questions outnumber answers.\r\n\r\nThe most important question is the UK\u2019s relationship with EASA.\u00a0 Patrick Ky, the head of EASA, talking in Aerospace, quickly turns the entire discussion into one about performance based regulation and the need for better, smarter, better resourced, regulators.\u00a0 The sub-text \u2013 not always all that deeply buried \u2013 is that Europe is better as one, not 28, or 27, or whatever number your particular definition of Europe generates.\u00a0 The UK CAA agrees.\u00a0 The hard-core Brexiteers may not.\r\n\r\nThis is the issue of sovereignty.\u00a0 Brexit is built around it. \u00a0But for aviation, it is a busted flush.\u00a0 The <em>Air Traffic Management<\/em> magazine, which was once called Air Traffic Magazine, a clever play on words, or letters anyway, obviously lost on its readers, has a new tag to go along with its new, much less subtle name. It is now the magazine that covers \u2018strategy, technology and management for the world\u2019s most global industry\u2019.\u00a0 That would be the global industry that cannot deliver a single European sky then?\u00a0 Global industry?\u00a0 This is beyond parody.\u00a0 It is arguably the world\u2019s most national industry, where every nation does it.\u00a0 But so is education, and sanitation, and health care\u2026 The list goes on.\u00a0 And frankly, each of them is more important.\r\n\r\nTo prove the point, the editorial, from the normally sound Aimee Turner, calls out the national divisions stopping the creation of a single European upper airspace FIR.\u00a0 That would be the global industry at work.\r\n\r\nOne more thing is keeping the magazines aflame: remote towers.\u00a0 They are reaching something resembling their obvious potential to digitise what was the last analogue piece of ATM.\u00a0 Obvious to everyone but SESAR, apparently.\u00a0 SESAR\u2019s head, Florian Guillermet, on a PR blitz, pops up in almost all the magazines.\u00a0 Sadly, for SESAR, the benefits of remote towers were \u2018unanticipated\u2019.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 The question is when do all the various straws in the wind about UTM and digitisation land for Europe\u2019s ATM technology supremos? \u00a0For that we may need next quarter\u2019s editions.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all deserve a summer break.\u00a0 TWTWTW is no exception.\u00a0 But aviation never stops.\u00a0 Indeed the northern summer is its busiest period.\u00a0 How long that remains the case is not to diss the fliers of the northern hemisphere \u2013 seemingly committed to breaking records for flights and passengers numbers \u2013 but to note how fast [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-airports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}