An inquiry into the UK’s air traffic control outage will examine the implications for the future resilience, renewal and development of relevant infrastructure.
In trajectory-based operations, aircraft systems share their planned trajectory so controllers plan further ahead and better integrate aircraft into traffic.
ITEC is working toward standardizing air traffic control systems with its new SkyNex air traffic management system planned for first delivery later this year.
With traffic expected to continue to grow in Europe, air navigation service providers are taking steps to increase capacity while curbing environmental impact.
The UK government and industry partners, including Google, have launched a large-scale contrail-avoidance trial on flights across the North Atlantic, one of the world’s contrail hot spots.
The UK’s main air traffic control provider, NATS, is pressing ahead with efforts to modernize air routes over Scotland, with the aim of increasing efficiencies.
This week’s staff movements highlight changes at one of the world’s most distinctive airports, an ambitious British startup, and a growing U.S. airport.
A new series of demonstration flights aimed at showing how drones can be integrated into operations at major UK airports is being prepared for later in 2024.
A preliminary investigation into the Aug. 28 incident by UK air navigation service provider NATS had traced the problem to a flight plan processing sub-system.
