AvNews June10 : Page 1
June 2010 I Volume 20 Number 6 A n RDG Media Publication In this issue: AIRCRAFT TRANSACTIONS AIRPORTS, AIRPORTS, AIRPORTS ALLIANCES, ALLIANCES, ALLIANCES CARGO AND PACKAGES FROM FLIGHT CONTROL CONFERENCES AND FORUMS DOT DOCKET WATCH EARNING SCORECARDS HEARD IN THE FIRST CLASS LOUNGE IN THE NEWS NEWS FROM MEXICO RECOGNITION... ROUTES EVENTS UPDATE START UPS GALORE THE E-FUEL MANAGER THE MARKET/S THE YANKS ARE COMING THE REGIONALS TOURISM HIGHLIGHTS 16 14 14 17 2 12 13 17 3 6 16 1 18 11 1 2 17 9 News From Mexico Mexico’s development by managing, modernizing, projecting and building new airports. With over 45 years of experience in all fields related to airport management, ASA works on a daily basis on training its personnel in conformity with current international standards. A In order to address its personnel’s growing training needs under standards that are increasingly demanding and that guarantee airport security, ASA has signed a technical cooperation agreement with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in order to create the first Training Center in Mexico with the Trainair educational approach. Therefore, in the first quarter of 2010, Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliaries made an initial investment of 50 4 The E-Fuel Manager By Larry S. Weaver L arry provides AvNews readers with a unique perspective on the most reported news story in recent memory. With the BP spill in the Gulf one of the top news items since 20 April, the question has to come up, why are BP and Petrobras and Chevron and Shell and several others, drilling in such deep waters that have now proved to be dangerous not only to people but to our environment? Current worldwide demand for petroleum is approximately 86 million bpd. Current worldwide production is somewhere in the order of 88 million bpd – adding the current estimate of 2 million bpd spare capacity for Saudi Arabia. The BP’s of the world – the independent – non-government owned – oil companies of the world currently hold only about 10% of the world’s oil. The rest is held by government-owned oil By Servando Gonzalez Munoz Gerente de Difusion e Informacion, Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares SA International Instruction Center Since its creation in 1965, Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares (ASA) has contributed to million pesos in the ASA International Training Center (CIIASA Spanish acronym), the purpose of which is to improve aeronautic and airport security and efficiency by establishing and maintaining high training standards for domestic and international personnel in the aviation industry. With the development of this center, ASA begins a new participation in the international airport field through an innovative teaching program that allows it to strengthen its spaces of influence and regional laising in Central and South America and the Caribbean. The training centers that are members of the Trainair program develop training packages with rigorous methodologies that contribute to the community of Centers that are authorized by the ICAO , which is a standardization body of the United Nations. (Continued on page 8) companies – PdVSA (Venezuela); Petrobras (Brazil); Aramco (Saudi Arabia); NIOC (Iran) and even PetroChina of emerging China and several others within and outside OPEC. It has to be acknowledged that the mission of a government owned or National Oil Company (NOC) is not primarily to supply oil to the world’s market or to make a profit, but to fulfill government policy and, in an increasing number of cases, to provide petroleum for their domestic market. PetroChina has invested in oil exploration projects in Canada, South America and Africa to obtain fuel to provide to their growing domestic market. The same is also true for several OPEC countries where their economies are growing and their internal demand for petroleum is rapidly increasing as their populations become more affluent. Despite all the bad press on Iran, the growth of the affluence of the Iranian population has out-stripped the ability of NIOC to provide adequate motor gasoline to meet the demand. NIOC is having to buy gasoline and import it into Iran. This increase in domestic demand for oil producing countries is true, to a greater or lesser extent for several countries including Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Algeria, Libya and even Saudi Arabia. (Continued on page 8)
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