Change! Innovation! Vision 2050! The most important multistakeholder high level roundtable congress in Brussels in December 2010. This is the aerospace event of the year where decision maker of the most leading European industry, politics and research meet. The key objective of the Conference is to present and discuss the strategic issues facing European Aerospace… Continue reading ASD/CEAS Conference, 1-2 December 2010, Brussels, Belgium
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European Parliament vote endorses new rules for investigation and prevention of aviation accidents
Like so many things in united but still fragmented Europe, the investigation of aviation accidents has long been an area where differing State legislations rules the day and often prevented vital information from being shared to improve future safety or, conversely, the abuse of information by judiciary authorities to allocate blame rather than to learn… Continue reading European Parliament vote endorses new rules for investigation and prevention of aviation accidents
European Parliament adopts resolution on sustainable future for transport
The European Parliament adopted in July a resolution that sets out the priorities for a sustainable European transport policy in the next ten years. The resolution puts high emphasis on a safer, cleaner and more efficient European transport system but also underlines its economic impact and need for more research. Consequently, the report gives reference… Continue reading European Parliament adopts resolution on sustainable future for transport
Ramp inspections at European Union airports – SAFA
News from EUROCONTROL’s aviation safety knowledge base SKYbrary. The European Community Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft (SAFA) program began in 1996 as a voluntary ECAC program. Its legal basis was subsequently established by Directive 2004/36/CE of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 – the so-called “SAFA Directive”. Under this legislation,… Continue reading Ramp inspections at European Union airports – SAFA
Smooth cruise – The WizzAir experience
Editor’s note: This article dates from 2007. We are now an economic crisis later but the essence of the story is still the same. What is more, WizzAir, operating 30 aircraft, is still with us and hopefully will remain for a long time to come. WizzAir, the largest low fare – low cost airline in Central… Continue reading Smooth cruise – The WizzAir experience
The tower with a soul… 18.
Approaching the present day… What a strange folk we are, we Hungarians! We complain when we have to work with an obsolete system and when it is replaced with something new, we complain that we are forced to learn new tricks when we had actually grown used to the old ones. This was the situation… Continue reading The tower with a soul… 18.
SWIM-SUIT final User Forum – 24-25 June 2010, Rome, Italy
System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is one of the mainstays of both SESAR and NextGen. SWIM is the set of institutional arrangements, rules, roles and responsibilities, applications and networks that enable information sharing and the common situational awareness, among others things, that are essential for developing the future net-centric air traffic management system. SWIM-SUIT, an… Continue reading SWIM-SUIT final User Forum – 24-25 June 2010, Rome, Italy
Seat pitch – a matter for the European Parliament?
My travel plans were only slightly affected by Iceland’s wayward volcano but I understand some members of the European Parliament and the European Commission were less fortunate. This is good. Hopefully they now have a better appreciation of the value and performance of an industry they are so keen to regulate but which otherwise they… Continue reading Seat pitch – a matter for the European Parliament?
Latest edition of SITA's "Air Traffic Management Highlights" now available
The latest edition of SITA’s newsletter, Air Traffic Management Highlights, dedicated to the ATM community is now available. In this publication, you will learn more about two major initiatives undertaken by our industry in 2009: • The Data Link Services Implementation Rule adoption by the European Commission and • SITA’s selection by EUROCONTROL to deliver… Continue reading Latest edition of SITA's "Air Traffic Management Highlights" now available
Copenflop fall-out – what next?
The Copenhagen environment conference was supposed to bring solutions to the problems nearer. The conference was a complete flop, certainly in respect of aviation. Of course, trusting anything this serious to politicians is a bad idea to begin with, but this is the world we live in. We must trust them to get it right… Continue reading Copenflop fall-out – what next?