Aviation in Transition : Challenges and Opportunities of Liberalisation ICAO Seminar, 22/23 March 2003 Liberalised Airline Ownership and Control

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Aviation in Transition Challenges
and Opportunities of LiberalisationICAO
Seminar, 22/23 March 2003Liberalised Airline
Ownership and Control

• Barry Humphreys
• Director, External Affairs Route Development
• Virgin Atlantic Airways
• Chairman, IATA International Aviation Issues Task
  Force

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Wright Brothers 1st Flight
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Sir George Cayle (1796-1855)
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• About 100 years ago an Englishman, Sir George
  Cayley, carried the science of flying to a point
  which it had never reached before and which it
  surely reached again during the last century
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  Wilbur Wright, 1909
• The contributions to the science of flight made
  by Sir George Cayley seem to be the most radical,
  fundamental and original of any that have been
  recorded up to the present time by the promoters
  of mechanical flight
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  A.F. Zahm
  (USA), 1913
• The aeroplane is a British invention it was
  conceived in all essentials by George Cayley, the
  great English engineer who worked in the first
  half of the last century
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  Charles Dollfus
  (France), 1923
• Sir George Cayley, the real inventor of the
  aeroplane
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  Charles Dollfus and Henry Bouché (France),
  1932

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• Please, Sir George, I wish to give notice. I
  was hired to drive, and not to fly.
• Sir George Cayleys coachman, 1853

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• US Deregulation
• EU internal market
• Open Skies bilaterals
• Etc. etc.

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• Restrictions on who may own and control a
  national airline
• The right of a country to refuse to accept the
  designation of an airline under a bilateral ASA
  if that airline is not majority owned and
  controlled by citizens of the country of
  designation.

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Virgin Blue
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IATAs approach

• Countries should not stand in the way of other
  countries adopting more liberal policies
• Any airline designated by a country should have
  an AOC from that country

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Virgin Atlantic
Virgin Blue
Virgin Express