Reality

It is difficult to imagine, let alone identify, any aviation organisation waking up one morning and choosing irrelevance. No airline states, “We shall ignore the future,” and no airport authority proclaims, “We shall gradually lose strategic awareness.” Similarly, no aviation regulator aims to become disconnected from emerging realities. Despite these intentions, institutions often drift away from the environments they were created to serve. This shift is rarely sudden; it is usually slow, almost unnoticeable. That…