The report highlights future challenges around four main areas: the post-Brexit international regulatory regime; the continuing need for passenger and freight aviation capacity (not just in the South East, and not just in airports and on the ground); the crucial need to balance global connectivity with the impacts on local communities; and the role of the regulatory and tax regime in incentivising. [...] 1.3 The structure of this report 1.3.1 G iven the importance of the UK aviation sector, as well as the wider strategic benefits that flow from good air connectivity, the purpose of this report is to provide an assessment of the strategic challenges facing the UK aviation sector and UK air connectivity. [...] The aim is to provide a broad overview of the role of air connectivity, the global aviation sector and how the UK fits within it and to draw this together to highlight the key issues that will shape the evolution of UK aviation and air connectivity going forward and the implications of this for UK policy. [...] 1.3.6 S ection 5 provides an analysis of the findings of the Call for Evidence undertaken by the ITC between May and August 2017 on the strategic challenges for UK aviation covering feedback on: the sector’s strengths and weaknesses; the prospects for growth; Brexit; customers’ expectations and perceptions of the sector; the UK’s air connectivity and the importance of both airspace management and. [...] In particular, from the perspective of the effectiveness of the UK’s air cargo processes, the UK ranks as 22nd in the world on the EFFI index and 13th in the world on the ATFI index.
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