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Some useful dates relevant to aviation and airports

2010

July 2010

19th - 25th July: Farnborough Air Show

August 2010

Wednesday 11th: "Why we should end domestic flights: Aviation in an era of Climate Emergency" Public meeting, 7.00pm at SOAS, Khalil Theatre, (Thronhaugh Street, of Russell Square, London

Speakers include John Stewart, chair AirportWatch, Dan Glass, Plane Stupid, Anne-Marie Griffin, Chair Fight the Flights and Phil Thornhill, Campaign against Climate Change.

Details at http://www.campaigncc.org/node/412

31st August: Regulations on the UK’s transposition of the Aviation EU ETS Directive (2008/101/EC).come into force. link

Sunday 28th August: Family Fun Day to Celebrate the Dropping of plans for a 3rd Runway at Heathrow !

Saturday 28th August, Sipson Way, Sipson, 2-7pm Music, Stalls, Food, Drink, Speakers

Details .....

September 2010

Saturday 4th: "End Domestic Flights Now!" Demonstrations in London and Manchester.

11.00 am Saturday 4th Sept - Demonstration outside City Airport, London

1.40 pm "Train-not-plane" brigade takes the train from Euston to Manchester

4.00 pm Demonstration at Manchester Airport.

Evening - Party, party, party for aviation activists in Manchester

Details at http://www.campaigncc.org/

Weds 15th to Thurs 16th Sept: Experts from major governments, international organizations, aerospace companies and airlines will meet in Iceland to discuss future response by the aviaion industry to volcanic eruptions.

Tuesday 21st September: "Consultation Challenges for Airports & Surrounding Communities" conference (an expensive one for the industry) in London, organised by the Consultation Institute. The industry is aware of the sensitivity of airport issues and the difficulties they cause neighbouring communities ...link

October 2010:

20th October: Government's Comprehensive Spending Review (of government department expenditure).

29th October: British Airways’ half-year results will be announced.

Some time in the autumn:

A public meeting of the London Assembly Environment Committee which hopes to hear people’s views on the expansion of London City airport and the environmental controls currently in place. link

Some time in the autumn: Airtrack Public Inquiry. It was originally anticipated that a Public Inquiry in to the scheme might take place in early 2010, but additional detailed work on timetabling and level crossing downtimes has resulted in the likelihood that the Inquiry will be delayed to the Autumn of 2010. details (The Airtrack Forum is pro Airtrack)

Some time in the autumn: The government will report back in the autumn on its proposal to impose a per plane tax in place of APD.

Some time in the autumn or winter: Department for Transport proposes to publish a summary of emerging trends and issues arising from the airport Noise Action Plans.

November 2010:

First two weeks: Stop Climate Chaos plans a constituency lobby of MPs. Details in due course. http://www.stopclimatechaos.org/

18th - 19th Nov: London City Airport - Judicial Review.
The hearing for the legal challenge against Newham Council in regard of the approval to allow London City Airport to expand to 120,000 flights per year. Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London

Further ahead or unknown dates:

Spring 2011

Climate Change Lobby of all MPs. Details in due course, from Stop Climate Chaos. The international demands can form part of a year of campaigning towards the South Africa climate talks.
http://www.stopclimatechaos.org/

East Midlands Airport: East Midlands Airport runway extension determination - and may be approved without noise controls being part of a section 106 agreement. Also the local council has requested EMA to be designated under 78 of the 1982 CAA Act but this may be rejected. All postponed from 3rd March "for several months".

Prestwick: The final version of the Glasgow Prestwick Airport Master Plan will be published at some time, but it is very much delayed.

George Best Belfast City Airport: - Public Inquiry some time later in 2010, after government agreed for it to be called in. details

Airport Noise Action Plans: The final versions (after government officials have met the airports to address any issues) are expected in July/August 2010

CAA release provisional statistics for the previous month for UK airports around 15th of each month.

BAA produce the previous month's figures for their UK airports, (some time approx between 10th and 15th of each month).

IATA produce previous month's figures for the global aviation industry around the 27th of each month.

Air Transport White Paper (ATWP) will be replaced by the Aviation NPS (National Policy Statement). The consultation on the draft aviation NPS - by the DfT - will be in March 2011 with approval scheduled for late 2011. The DfT is clear that the NPS will only cover those airports in the White Paper that qualify as major infrastructure projects. All other airports will have their planning guidance confirmed in the next Progress Report – hence the reason for doing them in parallel. The delay in working on the NPS is probably because it would be pointless before a general election - with Conservative policy on London airports different to that of Labour.

The airports NPS (National Policy Statement) will not only cover the national need, but it will also set out locations that the government thinks are suitable for nationally significant development, and areas which it considers are not suitable.

BAA is not expected to seek planning permission for a third runway at Heathrow until 2012.

28th September to October 2010: ICAO meeting
37th Session, ICAO Headquarters, Montréal, Canada

29th November to 10th December 2010:

United Nations - climate talks

COP 16 & CMP 6 (UNFCCC) 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16)/ 6th Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6) - probably in Cancun, Mexico.

(25th November 1970)

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