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AEROTHAI, AIR FORCE TO MEET ON AIRSPACE FLEXIBILITY
Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (Aerothai) plans to discuss with the Air Force the likely issuance of legislation involving flexible use of airspace to solve air-traffic problems.
The Transport Ministry needs to wait for the amendments to civil-aviation law before giving the green light to this issue and proposing it to the Cabinet as a national priority.
Sarinee Angsusingha, president of Aerothai, said the state enterprise had proposed an ad hoc committee to information for submission to the Transport Ministry on the planned legislation.
Aerothai and the Air Force have equally divided the management of Thailand’s airspace.
Aerothai usually asks the Air Force for temporary use of its airspace to relieve congestion when air schedules are packed. Similarly, the Air Force asks Aerothai for airspace as needed.
Airspace management would be more systematic if the laws relating to its flexible use are passed.
Aerothai has conducted a comparative study of the proposed legislation and those in other countries.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) sets the flexible use of airspace as an alternative for airspace management, subject to each country’s readiness.
“Eventually, it’s believed that ICAO will force us to do it. We don’t want to wait for that day and do it then,” Sarinee said.
OVERSUPPLY AFFECTS I’NESIA CHICKEN PRICE
Chicken-meat prices have continued to drop in Indonesia since late January because of oversupply, causing poultry operators to suffer losses.
On Thursday, the price of chicken meat was 11,000 to 13,000 rupiah (Bt28-Bt33) per kilogramme .
People’s Poultry Association executive Hartono said the condition was caused by an oversupply of grandparent stocks (GPS) since 2015.
“Our calculation in 2014 showed that we needed only 500,000 GPS per year, but imports in 2015 reached 700,000 GPS. So the oversupply was caused by the condition in 2015,” said Hartono as cited by tribunnews.com on Friday.
Because of the oversupply of GPS, there was also an oversupply of day-old chicks (DOCs). – The Jakarta Post
