In this issue
In this edition, we focus on how innovation - automated operations, digital services, advanced urban air mobility and artificial intelligence - will impact the future of Europe’s aviation sector in general and air traffic management services in particular.
Top aviation leaders share with us their views on the need to embrace innovation and enhance collaboration to maintain Europe’s competitive edge in aeronautics and ATM - highlighting that innovation and effective collaboration are central to progress.
We also look at how Europe’s airline passengers are driving many of the changes in the industry’s key priorities and at how we can improve their air travel experience and we give the floor to one inspiring voice for the next aviation generation.
Innovation is central to progress
Aviation has always innovated, making huge leaps to become the global industry it is now, with over 10 million flights a year just in Europe.
However, the rate of change is set to accelerate as a response to the major challenges we are now facing, several of which are described in this edition. Sustainability dominates much of the discussion, with the ambitious target of achieving NetZero by 2050 dictating action across the sector: from making ATM much better at enabling fuel-efficient trajectories, to a revolution in the production and supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Director General of EUROCONTROL
From rhetoric to action: accelerating the twin transition in aviation
Magda Kopczyńska, Director General, Directorate-General Mobility and Transport, European Commission
What it takes to maintain Europe's competitive edge in aeronautics and ATM
Jan Pie, Secretary General, ASD
Travel in transition: aviation’s role in shaping the future of tourism
Eduardo Santander, Executive Director, European Travel Commission
New military technologies will require ATM modernisation to manage airspace more dynamically, safely and efficiently
Christophe Vivier, Head of the Single European Sky Unit, European Defence Agency
The future of Europe's aviation sector: embracing innovation
Julie Garland, CEO, Avtrain
Revolutionising mobility in cities through UAVs - the airspace design challenge
Daniela Richter, Project Lead BLU-Space at Hamburg Aviation and Karlotta Victor, Legal Researcher on UTM, Air Traffic Department, Ministry for Economics and Innovation
Aviation's wind of change: the year that changed us
Mariya Tarabanovska, Founder, Flight Crowd
Towards a unified sky vision: integrating ATM & AAM for future air transport
Eduardo García González, Senior Manager Future Skies, CANSO
The European ATM Master Plan and EUROCONTROL’s role in wider ATM transformation
Marouan Chida, Head of the ATM Transformation Unit, EUROCONTROL
Advancing U-space implementation through a collaborative approach to simulation
Patrick Amar, Head of Drones Programme, EUROCONTROL, and Miguel Vilaplana, Head of UTM, Airbu
U-space design and implementation: EUROCONTROL’s key role in supporting Member States
Laurent Renou, Head of Air Transport Innovation, EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub
New entrants drive innovations in civil and military airspace management operations
Remus Lacatus, Innovation, Architecture and ATM Operations expert, Civil-Military Cooperation Division, EUROCONTROL.
LORD adds speed and flexibility to decisions by Maastricht controllers
Interview with Adam Tisza, Marco Vismara, Sevastian Zakora & Humberto Carvalho, Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre, EUROCONTROL
Preparing for Summer 2024: more traffic, disruptive weather but deeper and more effective collaboration
Steven Moore, Head of ATM Network Operations, Network Management Directorate and Yolanda Portillo, Head of the Network Manager Operations Centre, EUROCONTROL
The new CNS Programme Manager’s role and challenges
Interview with Paul Bosman, Head of ATM infrastructure, EUROCONTROL & Predrag Vranjkovic, Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (CNS) Programme Manager, EUROCONTROL
Diversity and inclusion: we are a dynamic, global sector but we need to start telling the story better
Dr Rannia Leontaridi OBE, Director General for Aviation, Maritime and Security Group at the Department for Transport, United Kingdom
Mutual cooperation to ensure air navigation services provision in Ukraine after the war
Andrii Yarmak, Chief Executive Officer, Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise, UkSATSE
We must agree on the data architecture
Brian Bruckbauer, President & CEO Air Traffic Control Association, ATCA
Northern Norway: A European roadmap to climate-neutral regional air traffic
Einar Sorensen, Aviation Adviser, Oslo, Norway
We are building the eco system driving the transition to a zero-emission aviation industry
Sofia Graflund, Chief Operating Officer, Heart Aerospace
Diversity, equality and inclusion in aviation: why we must do better
Milena Bowman, Executive Manager Airspace, Systems and Procedures, Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre, EUROCONTROL
Moving to new Network Manager Ops Centre is a step change in European airspace digitisation
Steven Moore, Head of ATM Network Operations, Network Management Directorate, EUROCONTROL
Major developments towards implementation of the global aircraft-in-distress service
Anastasiia Sobchenko, Common Services Expert, Network Management Directorate, EUROCONTROL and Ian Knowles, Technical Officer, Operational Safety Section, ICAO
ISOBAR – Research is building controller confidence in AI systems
Gilles Gawinowski, Camille Anoraud and Ramon Dalmau Codina, EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub and Stéphane Pierre, Network Manager Directorate, EUROCONTROL
Diversity of thought: surviving and thriving in a changing world
Steven Shorrock, Senior Team Leader Human Factors, EUROCONTROL
Airlines back MUAC’s new greener route plan
John Santurbano, Director Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre, EUROCONTROL
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