World / International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) adesso VOLARE č sicuro !

World / International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) adesso VOLARE č sicuro !

Il presidente dell' International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), l'organismo che rappresenta l'aviazione civile internazionale, ha dichiarato oggi mercoledi 21 Apr 2010 a New York che, se le Autoritą Nazionali hanno deciso di riaprire i voli in Europa, significa che la loro sicurezza č garantita. Dopo aver incontrato il segretario generale dell'Onu, Ban Ki moon, il presidente dell'ICAO, Roberto Kobeh Gonzalez, rispondendo alle domande di alcuni giornalisti ha detto: «Se le Autoritą Nazionali decidono di riaprire le operazioni in Europa, significa che VOLARE č sicuro

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ICAO - About
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), specialized agency of the United Nations, organized in 1947, with headquarters at Montreal.
The objective of the ICAO, which has 190 member nations, is to encourage the orderly growth of international civil aviation, establishing uniform standards for aircraft markings, airworthiness, and licensing of pilots. Its strategic objectives are to provide safe, secure, sustainable, and efficient global civil aviation, to minimize aviation's adverse effects on the environment, and to strengthen the laws governing international civil aviation.
The ICAO is governed by a board elected by its members (civil airport authorities), which meets annually. A directorate general implements board policies and may act as arbiter between states in disputes in the interpretation of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944 (see AIR, law of the).
The ICAO also renders technical assistance to member nations, especially in the field of training.


. . . About CAST/ICAO
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST), which includes Government officials and aviation industry leaders, have jointly chartered the CAST/ICAO Common Taxonomy Team (CICTT). CICTT includes experts from several air carriers, aircraft manufacturers, engine manufacturers, pilot associations, regulatory authorities, transportation safety boards, ICAO, and members from Canada, the European Union, France, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the USA.

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CICTT is co-chaired by a representative from ICAO and CAST.
The team is charged with developing common taxonomies and definitions for aviation accident and incident reporting systems. Common taxonomies and definitions establish a standard industry language thereby improving the Quality of information and communication.
With this common language the aviation community's capacity to focus on common safety issues is greatly enhanced.

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When the volcano strikes low-cost fliers may be the Winners

My story of the volcano is just one of a gzillion of course - but educational for travellers.
You can follow the saga of what happened to my wife and I on Facebook.
In brief, we we just failed to get out of Madrid on Thursday night as our flights (him on business on Easyjet, her on holiday on Ryanair - long story) were in the first wave of cancellations. What happened next was interesting.
Picture the scene - hundreds of travellers in epic queues to be told, basically, "you're on your own". Obviously at Ryanair and Easyjet

you really are on your own - they don't even have their own staff at Madrid, just sullen or embarrassed agents. Quickly turned out that they were saying they'd fly you home in six days time.
Now, I had a rental car to return and ended up talking to a variety of leisure and business travellers. Educational. Those of us who'd been dumped by Ryanair and Easyjet could see our immediate futures passing before our eyes, with no support from corporate travel departments, and no big expense accounts to wave at other airlines. So pretty rapidly we were on the phone booking coaches, cars and trains.
The folks in suits were behaving very differently. Cheerfully boasting about their new tickets on Iberia and British Airways etc, booking posh hotels for the night, hassling company travel agents. Disaster - the worst thing that could happen to you on Thursday night was to get a ticket for Friday or Saturday. Within hours your situation was that a) your ticket was useless since nobody was flying anywhere and b) all the sharp Easy/Ryan crowd had booked everything else.
My 33 hour trip home, (57 hours if you include the enforced 24 hours in Madrid before even starting off) was not great fun. But I rather suspect that as I write this on Sunday night, some of the suits are still somewhere in Europe. - By Kieran Daly
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