Airspace design and utilisation

With over forty countries and more than ten million flights a year, Europe has some of the busiest and most complex airspace in the world. EUROCONTROL, acting as the Network Manager, ensures that this airspace is safely and efficiently designed, planned and managed.

At the same time, we provide alternative solutions to increase capacity and flight efficiency, make the best possible use of the available airspace resources and to accommodate the needs of all airspace users, civil and military. While modernising Europe's air traffic management system, we work to reduce operational costs and airspace fragmentation, and to reduce the impact of aviation on the environment.