Air traffic control in Somali airspace has been restored, after a 30-year gap

The airspace over and around Somalia was reclassified as Class A at one minute past midnight on Thursday morning. This marked the operational restoration of air traffic control (ATC) services in Somalia and the adjacent airspace over the Indian Ocean – formally known as the Mogadishu Flight Information Region (FIR) – for the first time […]

ICAO Council condemns violation of territorial integrity and airspace of Ukraine

The 36 States composing the ICAO Council discussed (last friday) the situation unfolding in Ukraine, during a scheduled meeting of the ICAO Governing Body’s 225th Session. A representative of Ukraine also participated in the Council meeting on the basis of the State’s stake in the situation. The topic was considered by the Council on the […]

Swiss recibió su primer Airbus A320neo con la cabina Airspace

Swiss ha recibido su primer Airbus A320neo con la nueva configuración de cabina Airspace. La aerolínea opera aviones de la familia Airbus A220 y A320 en su red europea y, además, A330 y A340 a nivel mundial. En 2018, Lufthansa Group, la empresa matriz de Swiss, optó por equipar más de 80 de sus nuevos […]

European carriers renew call to speed up airspace modernization

Airlines for Europe (A4E) has renewed calls to speed up airspace modernization as structural air traffic control (ATC) issues—including capacity issues and staff shortages—have contributed to a 114% increase in airline delay minutes in the first half of 2019 compared with 2017. ATC capacity and staff shortages were responsible for more than 70% of all […]

DSNA and IATA to Cooperate on French ATM Strategy

DSNA, the French Air Navigation Service provider, and IATA, the International Air Transport Association, have agreed to cooperate on the development of a French Air Traffic Management (ATM) Strategy (FAS). In 2016, DSNA was the first European ANSP to cross the symbolic threshold of 3 million safely controlled flights. Over the next two decades, passenger […]

Panama facing airspace overhaul challenge

Panama is planning to modernise its airspace to support how its manages a forecast annual increase in international traffic of 5 per cent. Experts of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Boeing, the Federal Aviation Authority and the country"™s air navigation services provider met at the Technological University […]

IATA close to agreements in revised Single European Sky effort

IATA is "two or three weeks away" from announcing its first agreements with national air navigation service providers (ANSPs) under a revised effort towards achieving its Single European Sky (SES) goal. Speaking at the association"™s AGM in Cancun today, Rafael Schvartzman, IATA’s regional vice-president Europe, says: "It"™s good that we work together [with national authorities] […]