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Statement on the ETFMS outage on 3 April

4 April 2018

At present, we are carrying out a full investigation regarding the outage, the implementation of the contingency procedure and the recovery phase, in...

Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System (ETFMS) outage - official statement

3 April 2018

EUROCONTROL very much regrets the disruption that has been caused to passengers and airlines due to today’s outage of the Enhanced Tactical Flow...

Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System outage - situational update

3 April 2018

The issue with the ETFMS system has been identified and action is underway to return to normal operations. However, flight plans filed before 10.26...

28 February 2018

Contingency site to support NM’s mission critical services

The Network Manager (NM) recently established and tested full operational capabilities from a new, second, Operations Centre (NMOC) contingency site...

31 May 2017

The main challenge for aircraft tracking is not technology, but information management

At the well-attended 2017 Flight Location and Data Recovery Conference in Hamburg, EUROCONTROL joined aircraft manufacturers, airlines, air...

8 February 2017

Aviation community exercises power outage scenario

On 1 and 2 February, the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell (EACCC) organised a major crisis management exercise at EUROCONTROL’s Brussels...

17 October 2016

Volcanic ash – still a very real threat

In 2010 volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull caused chaos across Europe. One year later, ash from Grimsvötn again disrupted air traffic...

14 July 2016

Learning from airport terror attacks

What lessons could be learned from the latest European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell (EACCC) crisis exercise in February 2016, which looked at...

4 July 2016

Weighing up the risks and taking appropriate measures

Business continuity is vital - and planning for it, equally so. The EUROCONTROL Network Manager recently trialled a way of maintaining the continuity...

28 June 2016

When bad weather rules … and strikes disrupt

Summer started a few weeks ago and it has not been plain sailing. The network has had more days disturbed by industrial action than has ever been the...

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