White Papers & Speeches
- Aviation Deregulation: A Work in Progress
- Changing Airline Culture
Addressing the Behavioral Side of Change, by Joseph E. Shackford - China's Growing Market for Large Civil Aircraft
This paper describes China's growing market for large civil aircraft (LCA) and the challenges for LCA producers in realizing China's potential market. It further discusses China's trade in LCA and parts, U.S. exports and imports with China, key infrastructure and regulatory challenges in China, and China's ambitions of building a domestic LCA by 2020.
- Delta's Operation Clockwork: Transforming the Fundamentals of an Airline
A decade-long commoditization trend has firmly established the operating cost structure as the real battlefield for competitive advantage. In the end, everyone will be striving for the same objective, that is, to create the lowest cost business model that will achieve the highest efficiency while growing revenues. Optimizing network design is no longer sufficient; survival in todays airline industry literally depends on excellence in network design and consistent rigor in day-to-day execution. - Elections Do Have Consequences: The Case for a New US-EU Stage Two Agreement
A look at how the election of Barack Obama will affect US-EU aeropolitical negotiations towards crafting a Stage Two Open Skies agreement.
- How to Reach New Heights of Success
Kaye Shackford - a 30 year aviation veteran and author of the book Charting A Wiser Course: How Aviation Can Address the Human Side of Change - led one of the education sessions at the recent Women in Aviation International Conference. She advised the audience members to achieve multi-dimensional career success by giving themselves permission to do what they love to do and by aligning their own objectives and behaviors with their organization's strategic objectives. And then she showed them how to do so. Air Transport World thinks this message rings true for both men and women in aviation. - MRO: Doing More With Less
Aligning Your People's Behaviors with Your Organization's Objectives, by Kaye M. Shackford - Supply Chain Visibility Solutions Pave the Way for Continual Performance Improvement
- The air transport industry and the environment
New regulations are being introduced to address the environmental impact of the air transport industry, but how will they affect airlines' operations? In this white paper, we discuss the new environmental regulations from an operational and IT perspective.

