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COMSOFT: ARTAS Goes to Italy

29 September 2010 | By CANSO

The Italian Air Navigation Service Provider ENAV has decided to join the ever growing circle of ARTAS users to be well prepared for future European programmes...

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Joint Industry CDA implementation win-win-win: saving fuel, cutting emissions, reducing noise

16 September 2010 | By CANSO

Aviation organisations across Europe announced further progress in reducing emissions and noise from aircraft...

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Egis studies the impact of solar activities on GNSS-based aviation applications over Europe

30 June 2010 | By Egis Avia

GNSS operations from the En-route to the Approach and Landing are going to be widely implemented over Europe in the coming years...

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CANSO CEOs Discuss Volcanic Ash – Call for Stronger European Safety Regulator

15 June 2010 | By CANSO

CANSO, has held a discussion on the fallout from the volcanic ash situation in Europe...

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Dieter Kaden remains Chairman and CEO of DFS until the end of 2012

4 May 2010 | By DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH

On Monday, the Supervisory Board of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH appointed Dieter Kaden as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors for a further two years...

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Volcanic ash aviation crisis to be addressed by EUROCONTROL and KPMG in online panel discussion

21 April 2010 | By UBM Aviation

Whilst flights may no longer be grounded, the European ash crisis continues to impact airlines, passengers and cargo around the world.

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Integrating Airports into the future Air Traffic Management System

5 April 2010 | By David McMillan, Director General, EUROCONTROL

Aviation has been especially badly hit by the economic crisis. Airlines worldwide lost €7.9 billion in 2009 and a further €4 billion loss is forecast for 2010. Traffic in Europe declined by 6.6% in 2009 – the biggest fall on record and one which has had a severe impact on…

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Reducing the environmental impacts of ground operations and departing aircraft

5 April 2010 | By Kevin Morris, Aviation and Environment Manager, A|D|S

Following on from the successful “Arrivals Code of Practice”, UK aerospace industry experts from the airlines, airports, air traffic controllers, CAA and DfT chaired by A|D|S, have been working towards a similar Code of Practice for Ground Operations and Departing Aircraft. A ‘Departures and Ground Operations Code of Practice’ has…

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The continuing rise of continuous descents

11 December 2009 | By David McMillan, Director General, EUROCONTROL

Continuous Descent Approaches (CDA) are on the rise: March 2009 marked the launch of the European Joint Industry CDA Action Plan, backed by IATA, CANSO, ACI-EUROPE and EUROCONTROL1. Since then, according to EUROCONTROL's CDA Implementation Support Team, implementation progress has been non-stop. Why are CDAs gathering this momentum?

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Prevention of Runway Incursions at Joint Use Aerodromes

16 July 2009 | By Goran Redzepovic, Eurocontrol Military Expert

Runway Safety is a vital component of aviation safety as a whole. The predicted growth in air traffic implies that the actual numbers of incidents may rise, unless held in check by preventive actions such as those recommended in the European Action Plan for the Prevention of Runway Incursions (EAPPRI).…

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EUROCONTROL’s Challenges of Growth 2008 Report

3 December 2008 | By David McMillan, Director General EUROCONTROL

EUROCONTROL publishes a series of studies aimed at providing decision makers with up-to-date assessments of the challenges presented by the increasing demand for air transport. The latest, ‘Challenges of Growth 2008’1, is the third in the series and looks at those long-term challenges needing long-term solutions.

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Change and challenge in European Air Traffic Management

30 May 2008 | By David McMillan, Director General, EUROCONTROL

It might be a truism, but change is gradually changing. This can be seen in the accelerating rate that new inventions are adopted wide-scale. The World Bank recently conducted a study into this and found that in the past, it took a long time before new technology was adopted.

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Mitigating aviation’s impact on the environment

7 June 2007 | By Victor Aguado, Director General, Eurocontrol

Aviation faces a truly major challenge: growth. In the past 50 years, it has grown by a factor of 20 and annual growth of around 3-7% is expected in the next 20 years - which means that 1995 traffic will have doubled by 2020. The question is: how can this…

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Single European Sky (SES) objectives in sight

3 April 2007 | By Mr. Bernard Martens, Chairman of FAB Europe Steering Group

In 2006, six countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland – undertook to take a step closer towards the Single European Sky objectives and to closely cooperate to enhance air traffic management in the core area of Europe. The "Functional Airspace Block (FAB) Europe Central" feasibility study,…

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Airport CDM and the ground handling industry

6 February 2007 | By Elisabeth Lagios, Airport CDM Project Manager, EUROCONTROL

It is a fact that airports currently face the challenge of constantly increasing air traffic demand. Very few new airports are planned or under construction, and a saturated infrastructure will, in turn, make the job of maintaining maximum operational efficiency more and more complex.

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