Results 241-260 of 10,460 for speaker:Gerry Horkan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is kind of thought provoking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Privacy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is a little like how Covid-19 started us all using plastic instead of cash.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Scaling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Do either of the members want to comment on the other slides from earlier? I want to touch on one or two points and then we will probably have finished. We might have touched on this at our meeting in Brussels. Historically, planes flew in straight lines to particular points, so there were a lot of triangle-type routes. That used a simpler technology than the one now available. Are we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: In respect of sustainability, fuel burning and capacity building, it is all good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I understand that part of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Would some countries lose out? At present, aircraft are flying through their airspace, but they might not have to do so. They might not get the money they used to get so they want to keep them flying the old routes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: They might pick up on something else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Do we have any idea how much European airspace is blocked off for the military? I would not imagine the amount is enormous in Ireland, but in some parts of Europe it might be different. Obviously, in Ukraine it is completely different. Are there big chunks of Germany or Britain that are blocked off?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Do we have any idea of the percentages?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: So it is not blocked off 24-7.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Perhaps the military would be at a very high level or a relatively low level and you could fly through the middle, above them or-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: In ten, 20 or 50 years' time, as airspace becomes increasingly saturated, maybe those will all be examined.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We did not really touch on it but how impactful was the issue of Russia? British Airways has cancelled its service to Beijing, and other airlines are using polar routes or, as Mr. Hughes said, flying down through Bulgaria, Turkey and so on. Is it the case that very few airlines, or almost none, go through Russia anymore? Maybe the Chinese airlines do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Does that apply not just to EU airlines but also to pretty much all European airlines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: And not too much polar airspace. Finland-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: So the cutting of Russia has been quite impactful on European airspace.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: The heat map showed that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Trends, Air Traffic Control and Drone Activity: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
Gerry Horkan: There was a feeling the numbers would go low and stay low but they did not.