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A really bad day at the office for these pilots! 24 Jun 2013 | 10:34 am
The chain of events leading to this February 2006 runway overrun by a business jet in Northern Germany reported on 24 May 2013 by John Croft in the Things with Wings blog is quite amazing. The offici...
Podcasts 26 Feb 2012 | 11:49 pm
A couple of years ago when I first got an iPhone I downloaded from iTunes and listened to an aviation podcast. I was not impressed as the speakers were amateur enthusiasts who were clearly not that we...
Microblogging 26 Feb 2012 | 11:12 pm
Over the last few months I have become a fan of using Twitter (posts should be 140 characters or less and URLs are usually shortened) and some of the web links that I have previously been posting here...
ECJ Advocate General releases opinion on extension of EU ETS to cover international aviation 17 Nov 2011 | 06:24 pm
On 6 October 2011 the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) issued a press release and non-binding legal opinion on the case (C-366/10) brought by the Air Transport Association of America and O...
Canada signs expanded air agreement with Japan 17 Nov 2011 | 06:15 pm
On 1 October 2011 the Canadian Ministers of International Trade and Transport announced that Canada had negotiated new air services arrangements with Japan (see previous post).
Australia concludes open air services agreement with Japan 4 Oct 2011 | 06:26 am
On 30 September 2011 the Australian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Hon Anthony Albanese, announced that Australia had negotiated a new open air services agreement with Japan. For Australian...
UK has air services negotiations scheduled with Japan 18 Sep 2011 | 08:54 pm
The United Kingdom Forward Programme of Possible Bilateral Air Services Talks published by the Department for Transport has negotiations scheduled for September 2011 with Cuba, Egypt and Turkmenistan....
UK Government responds to Committee on Climate Change Aviation Report 18 Sep 2011 | 08:00 pm
On 25 August 2011 the UK Department for Transport published a government response to the Aviation Report issued by the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) in December 2009 (see previous post). The res...
APEC Transportation Ministers meet in San Francisco 18 Sep 2011 | 04:42 pm
APEC Transportation Ministers met in San Francisco on 14 September 2011. The Ministerial Joint Statement released at the meeting makes specific mention of the Multilateral Agreement on the Liberalizat...
NZ Commerce Commission has a win in air cargo pricing court case 18 Sep 2011 | 04:19 pm
On 26 August 2011 the New Zealand Commerce Commission announced that it had won a procedural judgement in the High Court in its case against nine airlines (see previous post).
