ICAO chief promises global emissions proposal by end 2012

ETS Case Narrative, Actual Flight :
On Jan 16 2012, I was F/O PF on CAO1043, B-744 BCF B-2455, flying from Beijing Rwy 36R to Frankfurt Rwy 07R, ZBAA to EDDF in ICAO-speak, (the truly logical rational global translated code of ICAO, bravo!). Crossing the Urals at FL340-in metres- after Step-TOC(Top Of Climb), I flashed our lights to sister ship CAO1048, B-744F-Boeing Thouraghbred, directly below us at FL330, coming from EDDF at 23:44Z Jan 15 2012. Being a dead of night flight, we were not picking up much of a headwind, around 30kts on average, on the nose, yielding a Groundspeed-G/S of 510kts by Vilnius-Lithuania. And our final Step-TOC by Olsztyn-Poland to FL340, yielded not only further emission reductions, as usual, but yielded a G/S of 527kts as a bonus, when compared to daylight hours, in general. My face lit up, it was 02:21Z, I hoped in anticipation of an early arrival, I usually operate on the daylight CAO1041 service, so this was new. At 03:01Z, west of Leipzig-Germany, we reached Top Of Descent/TOD, a bit later than usual. If the airspace was busy, speedbrake would be required at that stage to meet any waypoint/altitude constraint targets or restrictions, a flexible tool in the box, that did not need deployment on this occasion.
FL300 by Leipzig is optimal, when not approaching from the Baltic Sea. No holding around the Fulda-Gap, “great!”-I thought. Though Fulda is more of a traffic sequencing, than a hold, generally speaking. Too good to be true ?, alas-yes! All was proceeding swimmingly, then we were only cleared to descend to FL110 and routed well to the south and west and then north and northwest of EDDF. I estimated landing at 03:33Z. Later, after a dizzying zig zag of radar vectoring all over the Reichland, descending down to FL070 for more of the same “Reichland Uber Nacht” tour, this time heading east. We eventually landed-first on the deck- on 07R at 04:02Z/05:02CET-Local with CAVOK ambient Q1027 -5C. WHAT A YAWNATHON! Apart from time-wasting and fatigue-inducing for a very tenuous noise abatement curfew benefit, this muppetry burned nearly 4 tonnes of fuel for the inverse square root of zero benefit on Planet Earth, only cost upon all metrics from Gravity-free Green Planet Utopia. If noise was a real concern ?, we could land with flaps 25 instead of 30 and use idle or no reverse thrust. This is no problem at an empty airport on a 13123 foot runway, in the dark hours. Our autobrake landing distances assume no reverse thrust anyway, for engine-out considerations. And freight mostly arrives and departs on or ahead of time with a flex margin. Why not a flex curfew margin of +/-30 mins ?
And ICAO is trying to lend legitimacy to the EU’s ETS BS? Wake up !, ICAO DG Raymond Benjamin and smell the kerosene!
Recently, very recently, I don’t know the date, DLH 572, an Airbus 388, was lining up for takeoff on Frankfurt EDDF’s Rwy 18(takeoffs only)for an 11 hour flight to Johannesburg FAJS. At 21:59Z/22:59CET-Local, while lined up on the runway, the Captain-in Teutonic precision-decided that he would not be wheels off by 22:00Z/23:00CET-Local, so he went back to the gate, burning 2 tonnes, at least, in aggregate, not to mention peripheral costs. The A-388 burns approx 15 tonnes per hour in CRZ mode@ Mach 0.84, the B-744/B748 burns approx 10 tonnes per hour @ Mach 0.86. Stories of such blatant Eco-nomic/insomniac insanity-mascurading as normality- like this, make fiction redundant, far beyond parabolic parody. And German humour is no laughing matter, at the best of times. If I were that Captain, I would have been CRM-centric and declared a hydraulic/FBW/electrical, or all of the above problems on the P/A to avoid a pax and cabin crew mutiny, a very distinct possibility for a fully loaded flight of that time length, at that time of night. Put yourself in the hapless pax position. How would you feel, as a pax, at that time of night having done all your preparation and travel hassle in getting to the airport and through it, looking forward to a Business/Safari or Gastro-Stellenbosch Wine trip, relieved to be pushed back and taxiing for takeoff to be scuttled for 1 minute on an extremely quiet aircraft anyway ? people have been murdered for less inconvenience. That would not happen in China to mitigate the possibility of just such a mutiny, particularly at the travel peak of Chinese New Year. This year, of the Dragon, on January 23. Beware dragon market, sharp inflections from the Feng Shui, original Eco DNA and 100% more rational than the ETS.
Germany is a European China in export terms. The PIIG(Portugal,Ireland,Italy,Greece,Spain)drag on the Euro, actually turbocharged the German export engine, never acknowledged in Germany of course. If Germany’s importer customers behaved like high saving/credit averse exporters like Germany-and China to a lesser degree-there would be no Germany, as we know it. Nor China either, to be fair, but China is a rich country of poor people, unlike Germany, without their cosseted luxury of perceived superior entitlement of indulging in mandated ridiculous flights of fancy like CAO1043 was on Jan 16 2012. And the EU is looking for bail-in, bail-out debt relief from the PRC ? Needless to say, Air China in particular and Chinese carriers in general will not pay the ETS, Shakedown Racket in practice. I hope US American and Latin American carriers and other Asian/Australasian carriers do not either and even EU carriers perhaps ?instead of pathetically surrendering to the Eurocracy and screwing the hapless pax. The pax and freight forwarders are not hapless, they have choice and they can vote with their credited feet and they do.
ETS & EDDF Curfew Case Conclusion:
The EU’s environ-mental cases have not only taken over the asylum, but worse still, they also appear to have the keys to the pharmacy. And where the noisy sleepers in Frankfurt meet the EU’s Emissions Taxing Scam, Eco-Religious insanity follows night after day in trailing formation lock-step. It shows what a self-contradiction in terms that the EU is in general and ETS is in particular and what a joke the noise curfew is, except nobody is laughing. A joke is not always a laughing matter, particularly in Germany.

No Tony, I disagree. A con job requires confidence. Confidence is capital. Who has confidence in the EU ?, apart from the delusional EC time-serving, self serving Muppet Show, which lives in its own bubble.