Or so they say. The Foreign Ministers of the worlds seven biggest economies begin to arrrive in lucca, italy, and free trade is high on the agenda. The highway code in the sky. We look at singapores efforts to regulate the airspace for drones. Im aaron heslehurst. If you got eight minutes, stay where you are, give me eight minutes and ill give you a fascinating snapshot of the world of business and money but. We start in italy where the Foreign Ministers of the worlds biggest economies meeting in the historic city of luca. This year italy holds the presidency of the g7 group and rome has already made it clear that one of its priorities is fighting all forms of protectionism. But hang on, why does it matter to all of us . Well, its important because the g7 accounts for just over 46 of the worlds wealth. This meeting is important because its in preparation for next months leaders summit. Last month the host, italian Prime Minister paolo gentiloni, laid out his g7 plan by saying one of th
The congestion of airspace around the world is increasing rapidly, and pressure is mounting on the aviation industry to seek more sustainable practice.
ENAC, ENAV and IATA, published a progress report on the Italian National Airspace Strategy (NAS) noting the successful launch of several initiatives, and identifying future challenges.
The ATCEUC point of view on the “Snapshot on the costs of Air Traffic Management in Europe”
“Don t throw the baby out with the bathwater!” Brussels on 7 May 2021 (MOREL)- On 23 March 2021 EUROCONTROL issued a Data Snapshot with an analysis of the evolution of the ATM costs in Europe since 1998. Using those data ATCEUC offers its considered opinion on the EUROCONTROL analysis. Since spring 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous effect on the whole aviation sector showing that none of the stakeholders had foreseen these events nor had an emergency plan to handle a systemic crisis like this. Therefore, in a late and unilateral response, in November (eight months after the breakout of the pandemic and the drop in air traffic) the European Commission issued Regulation IR 2020/1627 which aims to alleviate the impact of the pandemic, but on airspace users only. Currently the EC is trying to force the States to enforce the ad-hoc recommendations issued by the PRB,