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The neglected element of the industry - we only notice it when it doesn't work properly!
Issues
The severe delays experienced in Europe and North America during the 1990s have led to significant interest by the authorities
in Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs). In many countries, of course, they are their own authorities and combine
reguatory and operational roles under the same roof. While corporatisation is coming, privatisation is infrequent, with
the UK being one of the few states to take that course for en-route services, although airport approach services are
more easily outsourced to private companies.
The great interplay with safety issues and the highly advanced technology
that is increasingly being introduced into ANSPs, can sometimes divert attention away from the need to apply sound economic
principles to how air navigation services are provided; how they are organised and interface with the airport slot allocation
system; how they are financed and how their charges are structured. If an essential, monopoly activity cannot generate
sufficient finances for investment, it suggests that there is something fundamentally flawed in its institutional position.
Services
Commercialisation strategies
Traffic forecasting and
development of business plans
Advice on economic regulation and pricing policies
Studies on relationship with delays
Experience
Assessment of economic impact of increasing operational resilience at Heathrow
for the UK CAA
Advisor to New Zealand Treasury on establishment of Airways Corporation New Zealand
Review of EuroControl's
en-route charging formula
Feasibility study for ECAC on establishment of European system for delay monitoring
Preparation
of NATS for privatisation for UK Department for Transport
Restructuring of Luftfartsverket in Sweden
Review of en-route
user charges in Latin America for Lockheed Martin
Preparation of traffic forecasts for bidder for NATS
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