Friday, May 17, 2013

The ANSP Alphabet


How will you define an Air Navigation Service Provider or ANSP? On the basis of its legal classification, ANSPs should be familiar with 9 letters, which we will call the ANSP alphabet. Can you guess what each of the following letters of this alphabet stands for? 

O is for O _ _ _ _ _ z _ _ _ _ _
P is for P _ _ _ c y
Q is for Q _ _ l _ t _
R is for R e _ _ _ _ c _ _ _ e
S is for S_ r _ _ _ g _ 
T is for T _ _ _  Management
U is for U _ _ f _ _ m  
V is for V _ _ s _ _ _ _ e 
W is for W _ l l _ _ _ _ _ 


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Friday, May 10, 2013

Annex 19 - Levity

What do you think of the theme of this post? Did it make you smile? 
Did you smile at work yesterday? How many times did you laugh? Last year, 57% of 1400 Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) surveyed, felt that workplace humor was important. Do you think that humor is also important for our ATC offices and workspaces? 



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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Mr. Pilkington comes to Tea (with ANSPs)


In George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm (1945), Mr. Pilkington is a stakeholder who dines with and elicits the cooperation of Napolean, the pig who owns the farm. The novel tells satirically of the progress of a farm that overthrows a human farmer and is run by animals. For us, it raises a poignant issue: What sort of relationship should stakeholders have with Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs)? 

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