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- February 2010
- 25 Feb 10High flyers, Geese and Profits
Harry F Banks once said, “Financial rewards follow accomplishment, they don’t precede it.” This holds true for most rewards, not just financial. There has to be some doing before you get the reward.
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- 25 Feb 10Waypoint 2013: Environment will continue to be a solid basis for ICAO Engagement
Despite the doom and gloom of the COP15 Climate Change conference held in Copenhagen in December, ICAO’s Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) committed to a timetable for the development of a CO2 Standard for commercial aircraft by 2013, a milestone for any industry sector.
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- 22 Feb 10The Cost of Change
“Does change require that we grow?” This thought I’ve been pondering in the last couple of days. Or is it that if we “want to grow, things will change”? A favourite quote of mine is “Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.” Growth is a very important part of the evolutionary cycle and is necessary for us both individually and as an organisation. But growth can hurt, growth can be uncomfortable and often we may not realise the benefits of growth until we reflect on it some time in the future.
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- 18 Feb 10I see what you are saying?
I think all languages are beautiful, it is just a pity that I only speak and understand 3 of the estimated total of 6,809 languages worldwide (source: WikiAnswers). In my search for a Spanish language course a couple of weeks ago, I found the picture that is posted in this blog.
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- 8 Feb 10Reflections on Middle East Progress
Late January and the first part of February has been a period of heavy travel, despite the drawbacks of being away from the office, it has been a welcome opportunity to meet and discuss with a very wide range of the thought leaders and key decision makers in our industry.
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- January 2010
- 27 Jan 10Introducing CANSO's New Environment Programme Manager
Wow, ATM and the environment, does it get any bigger than this? Hello and welcome to my first blog as CANSO’s new Environment Programme Manager!The environment. How do we begin to define what this is? Is it a political idealism, a moral obligation, a major roadblock or the greatest challenge facing ATM growth world-over?
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- 25 Jan 10The Need for More ATM Capacity in the Middle East
Just a brief update from Dubai, where I am attending the CANSO ExCom and Middle East Conference. It’s a packed but productive schedule out here, and the urgent requirement for more ATM capacity in the region was brought home to me when we were forced to circle for about half an hour in the Gulf before landing.
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- 21 Jan 10Director General Meets IATA, ATAG and AEA
This week I have been in Geneva meeting the Director General and CEO of IATA, Mr. Giovanni Bisignani, and some of his senior managers. I met Giovanni on the 19th and he gave me an overview of IATA, a history of the organisation, its membership, role and responsibilities.
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- 21 Jan 10CANSO's Safety Programme: Looking Ahead Into 2010
Note to self; don’t take leave right after the Christmas break, too much work piles up!! At least I missed out on all the snow in the UK by being in Spain. This weekend is a big one for me, my first time in front of the ExCom, I hope they don’t bite. At least I will be in good company, I think it is Graham Lake’s first time in front of the whole group together.
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- 15 Jan 10Asia Pacific - Start of a Busy Year
The New Year has got off to a busy start for the CANSO Asia Pacific Office. I will be leaving for Jakarta next week to attend an ADS-B meeting where CANSO, IATA and the ANSPs of Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore will discuss progress of the ADS-B project and the key milestones needed to ensure timely delivery of the significant operational and fuel saving benefits identified in a cost benefit study produced by CANSO last year.
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- 14 Jan 10Quality Management: a key instrument supporting ANSP Transformation and Performance Improvement
Transformation is a means to an end – and not a end in itself. We need to know where we are and define where we want to go, and clarity of goals and direction is crucial if we want to make sure that our resources are used wisely and efficiently. We also need appropriate instruments to help us monitor our progress; Quality Management (QM) is one of those instruments.
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- 7 Jan 10Listening, Learning - and Freezing - in Norway
It’s the first week back in the office and almost straight away I’m on the road again. Or, I should say, on the ice, since Northern Europe is gripped in a big freeze at the moment. Norway, my destination for talks with our EC3 Chairman Knut Skaar, was enjoying temperatures of minus 14 when I arrived, but it didn’t detract from the warm welcome I received from Knut and his staff at Avinor.
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