by SASIG | Jul 15, 2014 | Airports Commission, Free Publications, Latest Aviation Policy News
SDG Delivery Report 1 – July 2014 The Airports Commission Senior Delivery Group (SDG) have published their ‘Delivery Report #1’. This report sets out a series of short and medium term measures that have potential to improve the operational efficiency of the...
by SASIG | Jul 15, 2014 | Airports Commission, Latest Aviation Policy News
The government established the Airports Commission in September 2012 to advise on the need for and location of future runway capacity. In December 2013, the commission produced a comprehensive interim report that sets out the challenges we face in order to maintain...
by SASIG | Jul 15, 2014 | Latest Aviation Policy News
Nadine Dorries, (Conservative, Mid Bedfordshire). This is my first Westminster Hall debate, so I expect any interventions to be gentle. Our aviation sector is an important success story for the UK. We have the second largest aircraft manufacturing industry in the...
by SASIG | Jul 14, 2014 | Latest Aviation Policy News
Aviation, climate change and sharing the load The charity, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has published the report, ‘Aviation, climate change and sharing the load’ . The report argues that the Airports Commission’s recommendation that the development...
by SASIG | Jul 10, 2014 | Latest Aviation Policy News
10 July 2014 – The House of Lords has debated the opening of a new airport on the Island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic. Lord Shutt of Greetland started the debate asking ‘what assessment they have made of the opportunities for the economic benefit and the...
by SASIG | Jun 9, 2014 | Airports Commission, Latest Aviation Policy News
Use of the UK’s existing Airport capacity In its Interim Report the Commission looked at the possibility of moving traffic between London airports, or away from London airports, to obviate the need for new runway capacity. The Commission’s forecasts suggest...
