ICAO’s two-week Assembly in Montreal in late September/early October covered much new ground as senior representatives from the world’s nations got to grips with the challenges civil aviation faces as it transitions to a still unfolding advanced-technology environment. But in doing so, the triennial assembly also had to maintain a balance between adopting new concepts, such as the U.S.’s NextGen, while ensuring that developing nations are not disadvantaged, nor international aviation movements hindered.
Besides national delegates, the assembly also included a wide range of nongovernment observers, such as the International Business Aviation Council, Eurocontrol, the International Air Transport Association and several other organizations, all of which could submit working papers covering issues they wished to have discussed in separate executive, finance, legal and technical sessions. Flight operations and ATC technology generally fell under the technical sessions, where almost 350 working papers were submitted.
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