In this issue:
Waypoints
- Performance Review Commission produces early version of ATM cost-eff ectiveness report
- Network Manager handled annual traffic rises of 4.4% in 2017
- Search and rescue committee to widen and broaden regional operations in 2018
- New Director appointed for Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre
- Israel becomes the forty-second user of the LSSIP process
- EUROCONTROL launches updated runway accident prevention plan
- Simulating new Istanbul Grand Airport (IGA) operations in real-time
- Raúl Medina Caballero elected President of the Provisional Council
Data
- Flight share by market segment
- Top airports per market segment
- Busiest 10 airports
Insight
- Success will be measured by stakeholder involvement and support, by Eamonn Brennan, Director General of EUROCONTROL
Cover story
- EUROCONTROL sits at the heart of regulatory, research and operational drone integration work, by Philippe Merlo
- Drone airspace simulations reveal complexities of integration in unsegregated operations, by Kevin Harvey
- Holistic airspace risk assessment will be key to assuring UAS safety, by Bruno Rabiller
Focus
- Future traffic levels will drive reconfiguration of Network Manager and European airspace design, by Joe Sultana
- Free route airspace saves half a billion euros for European airspace users…, by Razvan Bucuroiu
- ….and free route airspace also benefits controllers in Maastricht, by Stephanie Demuth
- CNS roadmap shows evolutionary path to an integrated future, by Emilien Robert
- Communications fit for the future, by Tom Goossenaerts
- How big data is helping meet Europe’s capacity challenge, by Herbert Naessens
Insight
- The road to safe and secure drone integration in Europe, by Florian Guillermet, Executive Director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU)
- One sky for all, by Jorge Domecq, Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency (EDA)