Winter 2005

Getting to grips with Nats
In the past five years Nats has moved from being owned by the UK government to a private company. So how is it structured? How did the privatization process work? And how does its finances operate? Mike Halls reports.

 

Nats — one year on
Paul Barron took over at National Air Traffic Services in June 2004. Just over a year later, things seem very different. He tells Mike Halls about the changes he has introduced, not least the spirit of commercialism he has infused in the organization.

 

A brief history of nats

 

The Nats sell-off: a public-private partnership

 

Nats — some of the numbers

 

Ex-Marconi chief is new Nats chairman

 

New business manager for Airways NZ International

 

Tribute: Donal Geaney 1951-2005

 

DFS trims management board

 

Canso view: Future funding of the FAA

 

Airservices Pacific new director appointed

 

FAA/Natca clash goes on and on ...

 

Bogosian to head FAA Office of International Aviation

 

ATC Maastricht event details come together

 

McCartney joins Real Time Engineering as consultant

 

Pitts new head of Northrop Grumman

 

New COO and CEO at Intelcan

 

Robey Lal new Iata India country head

 

That 'C' word

 

Crisis what crisis?
India's aviation business is on a roll. Despite the hype — and there's been a lot of that — the country looks set to grow at record rates in the next few years. The trouble is that the country's aviation infrastructure is creaking and air traffic control centres appear to be close to capacity.

 

Could state-run really be best-run?
Airservices Australia is government-owned, but not managed that way. CFO Hisham El-Ansary talks to Alexandra Cain on the challenges of mixing public-sector control with private-sector commercialism.

 

Making Europe's first FAB
In late 2004, the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) and UK National Air Traffic Services (Nats) commissioned a study into the feasibility of establishing a Functional Airspace Block (FAB) in Irish/UK airspace. This study was undertaken by The Solar Alliance and published in July. Having had some time to study the report, Eamonn Brennan, chief executive of the IAA gives his view on the proposals.

 

The Question of Aviation English
ICAO has given the aviation industry until March 5, 2008, to ascertain that controllers and flight crews are at an Operational level of English. Can this be managed?By Gail Reed, Pan Am International Flight Academy, Miami, Florida

 

News in brief

 

Contract news round up

 

ANSP news round up

 

Technology news round up