Lots in the news today. . . .
- Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, wants to build a new London airport on an island and in the frickin’ North Sea. Seriously. Don’t get me wrong, I love BoJo, but this is taking a perennial white elephant and turning it into white whale. Or something like that. [Independent, Towers and Tarmacs]
- ACI-NA president Greg Principato comments on how the presidential candidates will think about aviation if elected. [Airport Check-In]
- Benet Wilson has a podcast with Alfred Kahn, who chaired the Civil Aeronautics Board during airline deregulation thirty years ago. [Things with Wings]
- Speak of the devil, why do we care about airline deregulation at all now? Adrian Schofield writes that we’re in no danger of reregulating the industry. Well, one reason to debate it is to set the record straight. [Things with Wings]
- The international airline trade group has just concluded a meeting promoting international deregulation multilateral aviation treaties. [finchannel.com]
- Nicholas Sabatini, the top safety official at the FAA, is being replaced by Peggy Gilligan in 2009. [Things with Wings]
- Here’s a “cranky” take on the announcement that the TSA will deploy “Secure Flight” next year. [The Cranky Flier]
- Aviation is set to be included in the European emissions trading scheme starting in 2012. [ATW Daily News]
- And finally, the U.S. has completed open skies agreements with Armenia, Laos, and Vietnam. So, who’ll be the first to fly the popular LAX-Vientiane run? What about Dulles-Yerevan? Anyone? [John Macilree’s Weblog]
Actually, information about London Mayor’s plans were aired about a month or two ago. I remember that because I mentioned it in one of my Saturday aviation reviews. But I see that Today in the Sky blog comes back to the info today, almost as if it is something new.
I guess, some paper found the news and decided to analyse it in detail. Aviation blogs cite the paper and it all looks like a totally new idea. :-)
Bloggers blog about what’s in the news, andyash. For the record, I’ve been following the debates over whether/where/when to build a new London airport for many months. See here: https://evansparks.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/the-london-timess-airfield-of-dreams/
Thanks for the link, Evan.
I am sure the plan is even older. But Britain is not yet so desperate for free land as Japan, and not so tiny as Hong Kong, to build islands.