Originally Posted by
lomapaseo
The impact of this was so great that had the airlines themselves (IATA) been brought in right from the start I'm confident that they would have had all the experts on the conference phones within an hour.
Uuumm, you've obviously not read through the thread. IATA were invited to provide input to ICAO when the VA guidance was being written. They didn't turn up, so the guidance was zero tolerance. When it was published IATA still didn't respond. Responding after the event is too late.
BD