SASIG March 2017 Bulletin

EDITORIAL Well, all the newspapers said that no-one knew about Theresa May’s announcement but in the Secretariat we had the inside track and held the newsletter front page to get the splash! What the announcement means is aviation policy work in Government has shut...

SASIG February 2017 Bulletin

EDITORIAL As foreshadowed in January’s Newsletter, February’s Newsletter follows close on its heels and is dominated by the twin-track consultations that the Government commenced on 2nd February on the ‘draft National Policy Statement’ and ‘airspace and noise policy’....

SASIG January 2017 Bulletin

EDITORIAL In the hope of avoiding comparisons with Southern Rail, I hope you will forgive this somewhat tardy arrival of your January Newsletter. This is due, not to leaves on the line, the wrong kind of snow or even some impenetrable quasi-governmental industrial...

SASIG December 2016 Bulletin

EDITORIAL SASIG Secretariat hope all our readers had an enjoyable Christmas and New Year break. We understand Santa managed to execute his UK flight plan before the fog descended, despite numerous strike threats and he is reportedly now en route with Mrs Claus, to...

SASIG November 2016 Bulletin

EDITORIAL The Government’s decision at the end of October to support a third runway at Heathrow as its preferred option for providing new runway capacity in the South East, was the starting gun for a number of related processes which began to roll out during November:...