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Central European Air Traffic Services Programme |
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The CEATS Programme is a solution to help solve a complex problem: the sustained increase in air traffic over Central Europe.
Conceived by eight States in the early 1990s together with EUROCONTROL, the Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation and the body responsible for setting the rules governing European air traffic management (ATM), the CEATS programme will create a single, unified air traffic control system for the upper airspace over eight nations – Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the northern part of Italy (Padua), the Slovak Republic and Slovenia.
The CEATS UAC will manage the upper airspace of the region in much the same way that the Maastricht UAC has directed the skies over Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and north-western Germany for nearly three decades.
CEATS UAC will maintain or upgrade current safety levels, while simultaneously offering increased capacity, efficiency and speed over the present scheme – the eight separate national systems that currently manage the flow of air traffic throughout the region. Over the long term, such fragmentation in air traffic control (ATC) is unsustainable, particularly in view of projected increases in traffic.
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The objectives of the CEATS Programme |
- Maintain and if possible improve the current level of safety in the CEATS Area;
- Enhancement of the airspace capacity;
- Facilitation of the optimum integration of the CEATS environment into the common European ATM System;
- Improve the economy of flight operations;
- Support access of the military users to the airspace.
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Last validation: 13/12/2004
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