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News & articles from International Airport Review covering Air Traffic Control and Air Traffic management (ATC/ATM)

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Controlling Sydney – Every movement matters, every second counts

5 October 2011 | By Jason Harfield, General Manager Air Traffic Control Group, Airservices Australia

The Australian Government’s 2009 National Aviation Policy White Paper, ‘Flight Path to the Future’, outlined Australian aviation’s contribution of more than half a million jobs and $6.3 billion to the national economy. But constraints at busy gateway airports such as Sydney, particularly during peak traffic periods, have the potential to…

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The Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM)

5 October 2011 | By Eduard Porosnicu, Senior AIM specialist and Digital NOTAM Project Manager at EUROCONTROL

The future Air Traffic Management (ATM) system will rely on advanced data exchange and data sharing services that communicate aeronautical information (infrastructure, route network, aerodrome, terrain, obstacle data) into the operational activities on the ground and in the air. The Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) is a specification that enables…

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The Single European Sky (SES) – the airline perspective

8 August 2011 | By Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus, Secretary General of the European Association of Airlines

The Single European Sky programme, to rationalise the airspace above the Single Market, has been hailed as Europe’s single biggest environmental programme, and by EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas as the most important project in his portfolio. It promises a huge efficiency improvement over the current patchwork of national airspaces,…

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European ATM – Everything is changing

10 June 2011 | By Bo Redeborn, Principal Director of Air Traffic Management at Eurocontrol

Europe’s civil air transport industry will face tougher performance levels when the Single European Sky (SES) II performance scheme, set by the European Commission, is introduced in 2012. Although exempted from the first (three year) reporting period, ground operations will eventually see safety, efficiency and environmental targets applied, with airports…

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Hub traffic management at Munich Airport

10 June 2011 | By Ingo Anspach, Head of Press Department and Communications at Munich Airport

At Munich Airport a total workforce of 30,000 employees with more than 500 companies ensure that more than 390,000 take-offs and landings with 35 million passengers can be handled every year. A decisive factor in the quality of the passenger experience and comfort at Europe’s seventh largest airport is the…

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Performance based navigation and a harmonised sky

10 June 2011 | By Steve Fulton, Technical Fellow at GE Aviation

Air traffic is expected to nearly double during the next two decades, raising public concern over not only the environmental impact but also how airspace capacity around airports will need to increase. This latter aspect also raises concerns over increased noise pollution and emissions around airports. In addition, industry has…