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News & articles from International Airport Review covering EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation and air traffic control (ATC)

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Delays in air traffic control could cloud the summer holiday season

20 July 2018 | By International Airport Review

IATA has announced that poor investment in air traffic control could bring delays to travellers in the summer holiday season.

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SESAR takes steps towards improved civil-military coordination

2 July 2018 | By International Airport Review

Through SESAR, civil and military aviation stakeholders are working together on solutions to enable military air traffic operations in Europe’s increasing complex and congested airspace.

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ACI EUROPE announces best airport winners 2018

20 June 2018 | By International Airport Review

The awards cover four traffic categories of airport and aims to recognise achievement in core activities such as customer service, facilities, retail, security, community relations and environmental awareness and operations.

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EUROCONTROL study: European aviation faces serious capacity challenges

19 June 2018 | By International Airport Review

International Airport Review continues to bring you coverage from the ACI General Assembly in Brussels. In this story, new research shows European aviation is seeing high levels of delay this year as the network struggles to cope with record levels of traffic.

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Big data: Unlocking the value of data in air transport

19 June 2018 | By Jim Peters

The right data, harnessed in the right way, can deliver actionable insights that are truly transformative for decision-making, efficiency and smooth passenger-focused delivery of services. Jim Peters, Chief Technology Officer at SITA, reveals how big data is beginning to deliver real value in the air transport industry.

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Lyon-Saint Exupéry becomes France’s first regional A-CDM airport

29 May 2018 | By International Airport Review

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) has become the first regional airport in France to adopt EUROCONTROL's airport collaborative decision making (A-CDM) system.

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Half of flights in Europe’s air traffic network delayed due to system failure

4 April 2018 | By International Airport Review

The second systems error at Eurocontrol in 20 years slashed Europe's air traffic network capacity by 10 per cent, delaying around 14,750 flights.

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Eurocontrol team up with iTEC on Single European Sky

12 March 2018 | By International Airport Review

The founding members of the iTEC Collaboration and the Eurocontrol Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) will jointly develop the Interoperability (IOP) components that support exchanges of flight trajectory information.

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Augmented reality brings new dimension to ATC controllers with SESAR project

3 February 2018 | By International Airport Review

The RETINA “Resilient Synthetic Vision for Advanced Control Tower Air Navigation Service Provision” is a research and innovation project that deals with the development of innovative tools for the airport control tower. The project grabs the idea of augmented vision and investigates its application to the on-site control towers.

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EUROCONTROL trial new A-CDM concept at regional airport

11 January 2018 | By International Airport Review

A project to cut costs and workload in A-CDM has been positively received at a Spanish regional airport.

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Remote air traffic control steps forward in Slovenia

7 November 2017 | By International Airport Review

A series of demonstrations have proved successful in Slovenian airspace meaning a step forward in the journey towards remote air traffic control.

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Eurocontrol appoint new Director for regional hub

3 October 2017 | By International Airport Review

The organisation that provides air traffic control services to most of Europe has appointed a new head to a regional control centre.

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Moving towards timely and successful airport A-CDM 2.0 implementation

29 August 2017 | By Velis Eleftheriou

Velis Eleftheriou – an independent A-CDM and TAM consultant – writes that the time has come to extend A-CDM into passenger terminals and to link this essential concept with the equally important concept of passenger experience.

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Airport IT In-Depth Focus 2017

6 July 2017 | By International Airport Review

Travellers want smart solutions to help them navigate terminals, and airports want technology to ensure travellers have a safe experience. This In-Depth Focus looks at airport-to-passenger engagement using apps, the use of biometric technologies, and the SESAR2020 'Total Airport Management' project...

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In-Depth Focus: Safely maximising airport capacity

31 May 2017 | By Bob Graham, Matthis Birenheide, Tony Licu

Capacity is at the heart of an airport’s schedule and planning, and with air traffic figures continuing to rise airports are under growing pressure to increase their capacity within existing infrastructure limits. EUROCONTROL’s Matthis Birenheide, Bob Graham and Tony Licu reveal some of the initiatives currently being used in Europe…

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