ICINTERNATIONAL CAOIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION Order from Chaos Answering Haiti’s call and contributing to its renewal State Profile Features: Nigeria & Saudi Arabia Also in this issue: Raymond Benjamin: A More Relevant and Responsive ICAO Review: 2010 NGAP Task Force Symposium Evolving the ICAO USOAP to a Continuous Monitoring Approach • Haiti Feature Moving Forward on Fatigue Risk Management • News in Brief Vol. 65, No. 5 Contents Message from the Secretary General Raymond Benjamin reviews how ICAO and its Member States, in close cooperation with industry, have demonstrated since the beginning of 2010 how leadership is as much the ability to react quickly and efficiently to a crisis situation as it is the capacity to proactively anticipate challenges and develop effective strategies ...... 3 THE ICAO JOURNAl VOlUME 65, NUMBER 5, 2010 Answering Industry’s Call: The 2010 NGAP Symposium Editorial Part I of a review of the issues, challenges and responses now underway to help ICAO Regional Coordination address the critical shortfalls in air transport skilled personnel over the coming and Communications Office Tel: +01 (514) 954-8220 decades. Includes NGAP TF Sub-group high-level summaries .................. 5 Web site: www.icao.int Anthony Philbin Communications A Plan of Action for Haiti Senior Editor: Anthony Philbin Tel: +01 (514) 886-7746 ICAO’s Regional Contingency Planning fulfilled a critical role in ensuring the E-mail: [email protected] effective management of the Caribbean airspace in the aftermath of the Haiti Web site: www.philbin.ca earthquake earlier this year. In this special report, the Journal reviews how this Production and Design planning facilitated emergency aid and expertise arriving to Haiti in the days after Bang Marketing Stéphanie Kennan the devastating quake, and how the ICAO North American, Central American and Tel: +01 (514) 849-2264 E-mail: [email protected] Caribbean (NACC) Regional Office has been instrumental in the months since Web site: www.bang-marketing.com in developing a viable Action Plan for Haitian air transport-related ICAO Photographs: Gerry Ercolani reconstruction efforts ............................................. 18 Advertising FCM Communications Inc. 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The information published in the ICAO Journal was State Profile Special Features: correct at time of printing. The opinions expressed Nigeria are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of ICAO or its Member States. Air Transport is a key driver of the ongoing transformation of Nigeria’s Reproduction of articles in the ICAO Journal is infrastructure. A special ICAO Journal report on the tremendous accomplishments encouraged. For permission, please forward your request to [email protected]. The ICAO Journal must in Nigerian aviation in recent years, and on why air transport is felt to be the only be credited in any reproduction. sector which can truly catapult the prosperous West African State into a new Printed by ICAO and more forward-looking development paradigm ......................... 31 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The concern shown by the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to its civil State Profiles: Disclaimer aviation sector has been evident since the first aircraft began to operate in the State Profiles appearing in ICAO publications are submitted by individual States or groups Middle Eastern State’s expansive territory. A special ICAO Journal look at the of States and do not necessarily reflect the dramatic infrastructure additions and improvements now underway in the Kingdom, viewpoints and policies of the International and of the high-level priorities now being pursued by the Saudi General Authority Civil Aviation Organization, its representatives of Civil Aviation (GACA) as it continues to shape the State’s air transport or its Bureaux. For any issues related to statements or facts appearing in State Profiles network into a model for Middle East aviation progress ..................... 53 published in ICAO’s publications, please enquire with the State(s) in question. 20/09/2010 20/09/2010 MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY GENERAL Uniting Aviation In this issue of the Journal, we consider how ICAO and its The Organization’s first post-quake mission, overseen by the Member States, in close cooperation with industry, have ICAO Regional Office in Mexico City, took place mere weeks demonstrated since the beginning of 2010 how leadership after the Caribbean State’s civil aviation infrastructure was is as much the ability to react quickly and efficiently to a all but decimated. ICAO assisted OFNAC in developing an crisis situation as it is the capacity to proactively anticipate action plan to begin restoring critical air transport systems challenges and develop effective strategies. and facilities, and just recently signed important new agreements for managing Haiti’s aviation-related The devastating earthquake of 12 January in Haiti was a reconstruction efforts. Journal ICAO – Issue 05 2010 dramatic case in point. ICAO’s response was quick, with contact rapidly re-established with Haiti’s Civil Aviation In the aftermath of the Buffalo (New York) accident in 2009, Authority (OFNAC) and neighbouring States for the serious questions about pilot fatigue and aviation safety coordination of traffic flying through the Haitian airspace. were raised. ICAO’s new Fatigue Risk Management System At the same time, early assistance was provided by the (FRMS) approach effectively addresses this and related issues. Federal Aviation Administration of the United States, in As a true performance-based measure, FRMS is flexible conjunction with the U.S. military, whose emergency control enough to meet the needs of all operational environments, tower provided essential air traffic control capabilities and while retaining the protections provided by regulation and greatly facilitated the work of disaster response teams. oversight by a competent authority. 3 ICAO led the aviation sector to some of its most solid achievements in years and paved the way for even more substantive progress in terms of sustainable alternative fuels and greater operational efficiencies… Avoiding or at least minimizing the concerning the Continuous Monitoring conferences around the world produced impact of a dramatic anticipated Approach (CMA), the next phase in a Declaration on aviation security for shortfall of skilled aviation personnel in the evolution of the ICAO Universal debate at the 37th Session of the the near-term is anticipated thanks to Safety Oversight Audit Programme Assembly, along with a proposed new advances made in recent months under (USOAP). Accordingly, ICAO is updating strategy for dealing with new and the aegis of ICAO’s Next Generation of existing agreements with Member emerging threats to aircraft and facilities. Aviation Professionals (NGAP) initiative. States to place a renewed emphasis A joint task force comprised of all major on the sharing of safety information, In the wake of the eruption of Iceland’s air transport stakeholders was quick to while similar agreements are being Eyjafjallajökull volcano in April, ICAO’s raise concerns and formulate solutions negotiated with recognized organizations Council and Air Navigation Commission at the first NGAP Symposium held earlier in order to avoid the duplication of evaluated the situation and stressed the this year. Airline executives worldwide monitoring activities. need to review existing volcanic ash have congratulated ICAO and IATA for the guidance, contingency planning and effectiveness of their action with the In recent Journal issues, we have operational responses to help alleviate NGAP undertaking. reported on similar reactive and the European situation. For its part, the proactive actions which have thrust ICAO European and North Atlantic And finally, our commitment to ICAO to the forefront of aviation news. Volcanic Ash Task Force (EUR/NAT VATF) transparency and