John Macilree's Weblog

 On 16 September 2025 the New Zealand Government released an Aviation Action Plan .

The most comprehensive data sources for the global airline and airport industries usually come at considerable cost but there are some good ...

In 2023 the Australian Government started consultations   on a new aviation policy statement. The final Aviation White Paper - Towards 2050 ...

Following the announcement of a Cabinet decision on 9 April 2024 that also agreed to a mandate for negotiating an "open skies" ag...

The New Zealand Ministry of Transport is now providing monthly reports of airline on-time performance on the main airline domestic routes ...

Between COVID19 and a very wet 2023, the transport links between Northland and the rest of the country have suffered from major disruptions....

For the last three years the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been required to produce quarterly reports on airline...

Fifth freedom services involve the sale and carriage of passengers and or cargo by an international airline between two countries, neither o...

In late 2021 I came across a source for scans of all the old New Zealand aeronautical charts and plates. The scans are excellent but the ind...

Since the New Zealand Government took a majority shareholding in Air New Zealand the company has been the subject of annual reviews by a par...

On Friday, 17 February 2017 the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand announced that the New Zealand would be joining a satellite-ba...

Modern positioning infrastructure, such as the US-provided Global Positioning System ( GPS ), is something people are increasingly taking fo...

While I continue to be fascinated by aeropolitical developments and on a personal note I have taken up flying again (this time with the Whan...

The UK's Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) has produced a series of short briefing notes that it calls POSTnotes th...

The chain of events leading to this February 2006 runway overrun by a business jet in Northern Germany reported on 24 May 2013 by John Crof...

A couple of years ago when I first got an iPhone I downloaded from iTunes and listened to an aviation podcast. I was not impressed as the s...

Over the last few months I have become a fan of using Twitter  (posts should be 140 characters or less and URLs are usually shortened) and s...

On 6 October 2011 the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) issued a press release and non-binding legal opinion on the case (C-366...

On 1 October 2011 the Canadian Ministers of International Trade and Transport announced that Canada had negotiated new air services arrange...

On 30 September 2011 the Australian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Hon Anthony Albanese,  announced that Australia had negotiate...

The United Kingdom Forward Programme of Possible Bilateral Air Services Talks  published by the Department for Transport has negotiations sc...

On 25 August 2011 the UK Department for Transport published a government response to the Aviation Report issued by the Committee for Clima...

APEC Transportation Ministers met in San Francisco on 14 September 2011. The Ministerial Joint Statement released at the meeting makes spe...

On 26 August 2011 the New Zealand Commerce Commission announced that it had won a procedural judgement in the High Court in its case agai...

On 22 August 2011 the Australian Productivity Commission released a draft report on the Economic Regulation of Airport Services . The fina...

Morgan and Bree, our two Standard Poodles, along with my wife Wendy and I feature in a Rugby World Cup -related article  and photograph on t...

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has recently released a Performance Audit of Civil Aviation in India . The audit commenced in ...

Consultant and former senior official at ICAO, Chris Lyle of Air Transport Economics  in Canada published an article in August 2011 suggest...

CAPA reported that Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MILT) announced on 9 September 2011 that it would ...

The new New Zealand Productivity Commission (modelled on its Australian counterpart ) is conducting an Inquiry into International Freight T...

On 31 August 2011 the New Zealand Minister of Transport , Hon. Steven Joyce , released a new 44-page transport policy direction statement, ...

On 22 August 2011 the Australian Productivity Commission released a draft report on the Economic Regulation of Airport Services. An Issu...

Since I last looked at the trends in domestic air passenger numbers twelve months ago by charting the numbers through the three main airport...

A weblog post on Carpe Diem from a US economist, Mark Perry, about the Essential Air Service Program in the United States where they have a...

On 12 August 2011 the Canadian government announced that it has expanded its air transport agreement with Mexico. The key feature of the ...

The Canadian Prime Minister's Office has announced  from Brasilia that on 8 August 2011 Canada signed a new Air Transport Agreement with...

On 20 July 2011 the US House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee announced that it is intended to ban US airlin...

On 5 July 2011 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) heard a case ( C-366/10 ) brought by the US Air Transport Association (ATA), American Ai...

On 14 July 2011 the New Zealand Associate Minister of Transport, Nathan Guy,  announced that New Zealand's air services negotiators had...

I had expected that this book would be more of an academic work than what it is - largely one of business journalism - but it is well worth ...