Skyway magazine
EUROCONTROL's official magazine, Skyway has developed into an authoritative voice, examining in depth the major challenges to improving European aviation performance.
In this issue
In this issue we look at the recovery of our industry and the challenges ahead. Despite the strong current surge in traffic, the effects of COVID and the war in Ukraine will have long-term implications. According to our Aviation Outlook 2050 we expect traffic to grow by 44% by 2050 – taking us up to 16 million flights a year – compared to our predictions made before the pandemic which anticipated that this level of traffic would be achieved 10 years earlier. We also look at how the target of net zero emissions can be achieved and the biggest driver of reduced net emission will need to be a massive increase in the production, supply and use of SAF.
Returning to growth brings its own challenges!
Several of the contributors to this edition address Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February and the terrible war that has engulfed that country. Henrik Hololei notes that “The Russian market is going to be closed for a very long time” and, as I write this, it is hard to see how things will be resolved. Putin has singlehandedly taken his country into a war that is having a devastating impact on Ukrainians – and is also isolating Russia from the international community. Our thoughts are very much with Ukraine and our Ukrainian colleagues.
Eamonn Brennan
Director General of EUROCONTROL
Where are we in the aviation recovery?
Henrik Hololei, Director-General of the European Commission's department for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE)
“Aviation is a force for good"
Grazia Vittadini, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Rolls-Royce
Towards pandemic-resilient airports
Hanne Buis, Chief Operating Officer of the Royal Schiphol Group, with Lotte Harbers, Programme Manager Aviation Security and Public Safety, and Guillaume Burghouwt, Strategy Lead
"New, radical solutions will be needed to meet our future demands"
Michel Peters, CEO of Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) and Vice-Chair of the Association of European Research Establishments in Aeronautics (EREA)
"For Europe's airports the recovery is cash intensive and revenue weak"
Olivier Jankovec, Director General of ACI EUROPE
"It's in all of our interests that we accelerate investments in European Air Traffic Management"
Thomas Reynaert, Managing Director of the Airlines for Europe trade association
Time to rethink infrastructure ownership
Paul Ravenhill of Think Research
NATO meets climate protection challenges at Geilenkirchen Airbase
Brigadier General Stefan Neumann, Commander E-3A Component, NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force
Making the multimodal dream come true
Josef Doppelbauer, Executive Director at the European Union Agency for Railways
ENAIRE boosts resilience in European air traffic management
Ángel Luis Arias, Chief Executive Officer at the Spanish Air Navigation Service Provider (ENAIRE)
“Aviation Outlook 2050: air traffic forecast shows aviation pathway to net zero CO₂ emissions”
Marylin Bastin, Head of Aviation Sustainability at EUROCONTROL, and Denis Huet, Head of Aviation Intelligence at EUROCONTROL
"The new Network Management system will be a fundamental enabler to improved trajectory management"
Iacopo Prissinotti, Director of the EUROCONTROL Network Management Directorate
“Our key financial purpose is to support and secure our operational strategy”
Bhev Chandrasena, new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at EUROCONTROL
Innovation is front and centre of the agency’s research strategy
Laurent Renou, Head of Air Transport Innovation at EUROCONTROL
EUROCONTROL’s Aviation Learning Centre is building a multi-channel training strategy
Hendrik Dermont, Acting Head of the EUROCONTROL Aviation Learning Centre
Traffic evolution across regions, Top 20 traffic flows, Market segments, Top airports, Top 20 aircraft operators
Commercial air taxi operations expected in 2025, autonomous flight in the next decade
Eduardo Dominguez Puerta, Chief Commercial Officer, Vertical
How to bring urban air mobility to life
Jörn Jaeger, Senior Specialist for Aerospace Management & Infrastructure and Barbara Zygula, Regulations & Standards Analyst at Volocopter
Stratobus: Autonomous surveillance and telecoms 20km above Earth
Yannick Combet, Programme Manager of the StratobusTM project
We need to focus on detect-and-avoid and communications
Bruno Boucher, Senior Vice-President, Airworthiness & Certifications at Nordic Unmanned
Where the world of motorways and airways meet
Anton Zajac, the cofounder of Klein Vision
Integrating space launches within the international airspace ecosystem
Luke Winfield, Operations Manager at Spaceport Cornwall
For Boeing, environmental challenges are linked to wider issues of societal acceptance
Chris Raymond, Chief Sustainability Officer at Boeing
Regulatory perspectives on emerging higher airspace users
Giovanni Di Antonio, High Altitude and Access to Space Operations Regulation Team Leader at the Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) and Chair of the EASA
Our vision of how to integrate new vehicles into the air transport system
Eduardo Garcia Gonzalez, CANSO Manager European ATM Coordination and Safety
We need to find the right balance between military and civil needs
Major General Karsten Stoye, Head of Civil-Military Coordination Division at EUROCONTROL
Network Manager develops new concepts to accommodate next generation airspace users
Steven Moore, Head of ATM Network Operations, Dragos Tonea, iNEO Manager and Paul O’Reilly, New Entrants Airspace Specialist report
Transforming EUROCONTROL Brétigny from an experimental centre into an Innovation Hub
Laurent Renou, Head of Air Transport Innovation at EUROCONTROL
ECHO is making space for new high-altitude entrants
Henk Hof, ECHO Project Leader at EUROCONTROL
New integrated ATM/U-space services and capabilities will meet the airspace integration challenges of Urban Air Mobility
Giancarlo Ferrara, Drone/U-space R&D Work Programme Manager at EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub
Traffic evolution across regions, Top 20 traffic flows, Market segments, Top airports, Top 20 aircraft operators
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