Socio-economic and political crises affecting aviation

Ongoing socio-economic and political crisis and will affect the air transport industry including both safety and operational considerations. Air transport industry and associated stakeholders must prepare themselves and what measures to undertake in view of the financial, social and political instability and uncertainty. Major areas of impact include:

The role of organizations, governments and regional authorities in helping the industry,

How government austerity measures and worldwide economic uncertainty affect government oversight of aviation safety.

How airports and airliners can work in tandem in order to survive.

How solution providers can offer new products that will help airlines and airports to overcome the difficult times.

There are increasingly intense social, economic, political, environmental, and other pressures on civil aviation policy, particularly at the national and regional levels. Such pressures can result from rapid changes to socio-economic systems, which can have global effects (for example, rising expectation by society of safety levels). These pressures can also lead to conflicts such as those between safety and environmental obligations. In meeting environmental obligations, those relating to safety should not be compromised. While some may see political and economic pressures as far-off, abstract conflicts, they often have direct impacts on aviation safety. A 2016 accident analysis by the Future Aviation Safety Team directly linked 19.4% of aviation accidents from 2004-2015 to political and economic crises.