Business Aviation point of view How can inspections help to solve the illegal operations issue? Belarmino GONÇALVES PARADELA EBAA Senior Manager Cologne, 25 th October 2012
What is Business Aviation in Europe Economic importance • 650,000 yearly movements (7.6 % of all IFR traffic in Europe) • 103,000 yearly city-pairs • 160,000 jobs • 838 operators • €9bn – value of business aviation aircraft manufacturing
What is Business Aviation in Europe Operations � 96% – proportion of city pairs served by business aviation in 2011 that had NO scheduled connection. The remaining 4% represent however more than 1/3 of business aviation traffic in volume. � 70% – proportion of business aviation flights taking off and landing at airports handling fewer than 100 departures per day
BusAv Economic Impact in Europe 2012 Oxford Economics Study: The Economic Benefits of Business Aviation www.ebaa.org
The issue The issue: In accordance with the latest information we have, from 6% to 8% of all business aviation flights in Europe are operated by operators that circumvent requirements of the existing regulation and or are operated without the required traffic rights. The importance of the issue: More than 45 000 movements /year are concerned by this issue.
What happen since the last SAFA/SACA industry Forum EBAA was invited to make a presentation at the ESSG in February 2012. → Identified a need for a close collaboration with the National Authorities. Why? � To Identify the problems faced by the inspectors at national level � To understand the issue from their perspective
EBAA Face-To-Face Meetings with EU NAAs
The outputs of the EBAA campaign Common problems faced by all NAAs − No common understanding of what is an “illegal flight” − Identification of the problematic flights − Lack of resources − Only focused on airline operations and main airports − Non-Objection right not applied − Lack of legal tools to punish the wrong doers + Good communication among the MS + Will of the inspectors to address the illegal flights issue
The outputs of the EBAA campaign Following the campaign we had an internal reflection on how to help the system to improve.
The outputs of the EBAA campaign Need to work on a EU definition of an illegal operation: Proposed definition from the industry. EU Operators & Non-EU Operators Operators performing public transportation within EU territory without a valid AOC. Commercial Operators pretending to be Non-Commercial to escape landing or FTL restrictions. Non-EU Operators Non-EU operators performing public transportation within EU territory without traffic rights.
The outputs of the EBAA campaign Reduce the attractiveness of cheating Need an adapted regulation made in accordance with Biz Av characteristics and not made in accordance with Airline needs → reduce the gap between commercial and non commercial → reduce the attractiveness of cheating.
The outputs of the EBAA campaign � Prevention � Industry (EBAA). EBAA have developed a binding code of conduct for our members � Working with all the involved stakeholders such as airports, brokers etc. to create � synergy � Repression � Industry (EBAA). EBAA encourages its members to denounce all the illegal operations they identified � within their local area through the secretariat. � EBAA is approaching the EU authorities asking them to develop legal tools that are needed by the inspectors to more easily punish the wrong doers
Conclusion Even if the vast majority of business aviation flights operated to, within and from the EU are operated in compliance with legal requirements, regrettably, there are still some operators who unwisely choose to circumvent the system. This situation is made possible because the system makes illegal operations very attractive : • A priori , because commercial business aviation operators are forced to comply with the CAT regulation which is too complex and only designed for airline operations. This creates an enormous and unjustified gap between the needs of the operations and the requirements of the regulation, creating opportunities for illegal operations. • A posteriori , as the system is designed mainly to focus/control only on scheduled airline operations it leaves aside all the non-airline operations creating a sense of impunity in the mind of the illegal operators.
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