AA 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 EconomistAA in Aerospace Testing International
Keeping standards: Twin engine certification
Link to Aerospace Testing InternationalAA in The Economist
Airlines lose a compensation battle with passengers
Andrew Charlton: “Perhaps one day an airline will consider distinguishing itself with a more enlightened customer service”
Link to The EconomistAA in Air Traffic Control Newsletter
Air Traffic Control Newsletter #120
“Flight tracking is at a sweet spot between new ATM technologies, passenger demand for continuous internet connectivity, and the introduction of new aircraft with significantly more capability. To be tied down now to any standard, even less a product, would be madness. We must let the potential energy of competition work its magic. True it is that we want all of this to happen within agreed bands of spectrum, if that is necessary to avoid duplication, but maybe we do not yet need to know which band. Maybe more than one spectrum band will not be a technical drawback. We should wait and see.”
-Andrew Charlton, “Tracking the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, Aviation Intelligence Reporter, Dec. 2014/Jan. 2015
