Beyond Airline Disruptions: The most comprehensive impromptu ‘course’ in aviation strategy, flavoured with mix of business and politics

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

The most comprehensive impromptu ‘course’ in aviation strategy, flavoured with mix of business and politics

If you would like to understand what it takes to create a sustainable aviation strategy at government level, who the participants are in this process, their views and power interplay, this is a great place to go.

Click here to read/watch UK Transport Select Committee sessions on aviation strategy - in particular the oral evidence on airport capacity constraints (Monday 10 December 2012)

Witnesses: Andrew Haines, Chief Executive, Civil Aviation Authority, Simon Hocquard, Operational Strategy & Deployment Director, NATS, Richard Deakin, Chief Executive Officer, NATS.

My Favourite Quotes:

'The order is established not according to a pattern, but when there is complete understanding of what disorder is.' Krishnamurti

'Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.' Albert Einstein

‘In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks ’Wilbur Wright

‘If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.’ Oliver Wendell Holmes

'Anyone who is not given information cannot assume responsibility. But anyone who is given information cannot avoid assuming it.' Jan Carlzon

'Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.' Goethe

'Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.' Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Disruptions are like music out of tune. People can listen to it, but not for long.