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AA quoted in Gulf News
Emirates made the right move, will help save costs
Calling the move by Emirates an “inevitable” one, Andrew Charlton, managing director of Geneva-based Aviation Advocacy, said it would help Emirates cut costs. “And more importantly, it will let them correctly cut their suit to match their cloth. Or trim their network to match their passengers. In other words, it was the right move in the circumstances,” he told Gulf News by email.
Link to Gulf NewsAA Quoted in The Wall Stree Journal
U.S., U.K. Cite Terror Threat in Laptop, Tablet Ban on Flights
The Wall Stree JournalAA Quoted in Reason Foundation
Air Traffic Control Newsletter #141
An example of what might be possible comes from the European Parliament. As Aviation Intelligence Reporter revealed in January, Polish MEP Pavel Telicka discovered a little-known provision in the framework legislation for the Single European Sky: permission for a single upper airspace flight information region for all of the E.U. AIR‘s editor, Andrew Charlton, described the potential as follows:
“The single pan-European upper airspace FIR . . . would extend across all of Europe. The analogy that everyone uses is a superhighway. . . . No longer would flights that go over, but not into, France be subject to the increasingly frequent industrial action [strikes] the various French controllers’ unions call. . . . [S]uch a proposal would facilitate making en-route services more competitive. The EU FIR can be controlled from anywhere, for all of Europe. Maybe, in the interests of ensuring back-up and competition in the provision of these services, you could split Europe into three or four [upper area] FIRs, and have a back-up provider on standby. ANSPs could bid for providing these services for fixed periods of time.”
Link to Reason FoundationAA Quoted in Financial Times
Financial Times US ban deals blow to Middle East airlines but UK stance offers hope
Link to Financial TimesAA interviewed for Swiss TV
Low-cost airline to offer transatlantic flights for less than 70 CHF
Link to to RTSAA quoted in Gulf News
Etihad Airways chief to step down amidst European investment troubles
Link to Gulf NewsAA quoted in Wall Stree Journal
Middle East Airlines Start to Feel Pressure From Weakening Global Economy
https://doc.co/9RczBLGiles, here a strange link to nowhere
AA in The Economist
Aviation in Africa – Departure delayed
Africa is ripe for air travel. A pity its governments are holding it back
Link to The Economist