{"id":89,"date":"2012-01-25T17:44:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:51:32","slug":"the-promised-articles-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"On your marks"},"content":{"rendered":"September 15:\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s been a dismal 24 months for London\u2019s already overcrowded business aviation operators. But there\u2019s sunshine on the horizon in the form of the 2012 Olympic Games. The Games were promoted as a regeneration project to benefit ordinary Londoners, but we\u2019re all old enough to know that the best seats in the house will go to international dignitaries, business big wigs and a circus act of celebrities \u2013 with the means and the taste for touching down in the UK in style. There has been much concern in the bizav community over the likely restrictions to their operating airspace (from July 13 to September 12 2012, there will be an inner prohibited airspace zone and an outer restricted zone, about 60 nautical miles across, centred on the Olympic Park). But the UK Government has at least this week granted approval for a number of general aviation airports \u2013 including Northolt, Cambridge and Southend \u2013 to be open around the clock. The race for slots at these locations is set to begin imminently. Given that rock-stars don\u2019t keep tidy diaries, operators might need to take some gambles on bookings. The real gainers could be the FBOs, who will charge premium pricing and non-refundable deposits.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 15: It\u2019s been a dismal 24 months for London\u2019s already overcrowded business aviation operators. But there\u2019s sunshine on the horizon in the form of the 2012 Olympic Games. The Games were promoted as a regeneration project to benefit ordinary Londoners, but we\u2019re all old enough to know that the best seats in the house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}