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📊 26,079 average daily flights ✈️ in Week 8's #NetworkUpdate, ⬆️2.3% more flights vs Week 7, 7% higher than the same period in 2024 and at 97% of 2019 levels. A quick round-up of the 🔝 top 3s in comparison to the previous week: 📌 #airline groups: 1️⃣ Ryanair: 2,722 daily flights (+8% vs Week 7) 2️⃣ easyJet: 1,514 daily flights (+4% vs Week 7) 3️⃣ Turkish Airlines: 1,148 daily flights (-15% vs Week 7, as a result of heavy snowfall in Türkiye) 📌 #airports: 1️⃣ Amsterdam Schiphol: 1,305 daily flights (+3% vs Week 7) 2️⃣ London Heathrow: 1,299 daily flights (+1%) 3️⃣ Paris Charles de Gaulle: 1,233 daily flights (+1%) 📌 #States: 1️⃣ UK 🇬🇧: 5,105 daily flights (+3% vs Week 7) 2️⃣ Spain 🇪🇸: 4,444 daily flights (+4% vs Week 7) 3️⃣ Germany 🇩🇪: 4,190 daily flights (+5% vs Week 7) 🕙 Regarding #ATFM Delay: ▪ Week 8 also registered 0.9 minutes of ATFM delay per flight (0.5 minutes en-route / 0.4 airport related) ⬇️ down 3% from week 7, but well above 2024 ▪ In terms of en-route ATFM Delay, 42% were in France (staffing issues and the implementation of a new ATM system); also, Seville ACC continues to face challenges with 44% more flights than in 2019 ▪ Concerning airport ATFM Delay, Lisbon Airport saw performance issues due to low visibility (Feb 17-20), while London Heathrow experienced delays due to crosswinds (Feb 20-21). 📊 For more unique aviation data in your pocket, 24/7, 👉 check out our EUROCONTROL DATA app on Apple/Google Play.

EUROCONTROL Stakeholder Forum: What's the issue with capacity?

🚀 Exciting milestone: Athens International Airport joins the EUROCONTROL network as an Advanced ATC Tower! ✈️ This collaborative effort between #AthensAirport & EUROCONTROL marks a significant step forward in enhancing aviation efficiency. 🌐 Becoming an Advanced ATC Tower is the first level of #AirportIntegration, enabling the provision of crucial flight updates through A-DPI & C-DPI messages. This allows for: 🚩improved predictability of take-off times for the #NMOC, EUROCONTROL's Network Manager (#NM) Operations Centre from which we manage the European aviation network 🚩 enhances overall en-route and sectoral planning 🚩 benefits also arrival airports by sharing more accurate landing time predictions with stakeholders utilising NM services. 📈 Given Athens' substantial traffic levels - currently around 550 daily flights ✈️ - this integration will help boost network predictability, particularly as we urge all actors to #thinkNetwork 🧠✈️ in preparation for the high levels of traffic expected this summer. We're firmly committed to further enhancing data integration, with ongoing work on Athens' A-CDM implementation. 🤝 This initiative is part of our broader mission to improve airport performance and network predictability through various innovative projects, including Airport Collaborative Decision-Making (A-CDM) and the AOP-NOP (ATM & Network Operations Plans) integration programme. 👉 Learn more about EUROCONTROL's projects and services regarding airport integration: https://lnkd.in/dCTdXqx

💻 Learn how you can #thinkNetwork 🧠✈️ at our webinar on managing capacity for summer 2025. With summer air traffic expected to rise by 5.2% over 2024, ensuring smooth European operations is a top priority for all operational stakeholders. & to tackle this challenge, we must all #thinkNetwork 🧠✈️. 👉 Join us for our next EUROCONTROL Strategic Webinar, 📅 28 February 2025, 15:00–16:00 CET, which asks: "What's the issue with capacity?" Webinar moderator Steven Moore, our Head of ATM Network Operations, will be exploring the main causes of capacity constraints - and what can be done to address them - with our C-suite #airport #ANSP #airline panel featuring: 🎤 Giovanni Russo, Genève Aéroport COO 🎤 Xavier Benavent Navarro, ENAIRE COO 🎤 David Morgan, easyJet COO. On the agenda for discussion are the key challenges everyone's expecting to face during the busy summer period: 🚩 Structural capacity shortfalls 🚩 ANSP performance gaps 🚩 Flight plan adherence 🚩 Adverse weather management 🚩 Unexpected traffic surges. Sign up 👇 to book your webinar place: https://lnkd.in/eNPQcCCW Let's #thinkNetwork 🧠✈️ and work together to keep our skies efficient this summer! #Aviation #AirTrafficManagement #thinkNetwork #NMOC

✒️ Signed: a Joint Statement supporting the transition to a new service delivery model for air traffic management (#ATM) in Europe. 💬 Our DG Raúl Medina: "With this signature, EUROCONTROL officially joins a growing list of #aviation industry leaders committed to advancing the modernisation and digitalisation of European airspace, as outlined in the European ATM Master Plan". ✈️ ✍ Today's signature sees us join a growing list of signatories, highlighting broad industry consensus on the need to implement a data-driven, cloud-based & service-oriented architecture to enhance aviation safety, efficiency & sustainability across Europe. 💬 As Raúl emphasises, "at EUROCONTROL we are working closely with the SESAR Joint Undertaking and the SESAR Deployment Manager to develop a joint work programme on the different Open Digital Architecture Service Delivery Model activities (#ODA). Our aim is to avoid duplication and overlaps and show a common approach to the wider ATM community".

Productive discussions & continued collaboration 🤝 as EUROCONTROL DG Raúl Medina hosts the CEOs of the A6 Alliance of European air navigation services providers ✈️. On the table: 📌 Europe's network evolution & our shared commitment to help modernise the European ATM system 📌 past and future #network performance matters in relation to the future innovation set-up 📌 an exchange of views on other strategic initiatives, including the contributions from our EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub (#EIH) to #SESAR projects and traffic forecasting.

Preparing for the future implementation of the EUROCONTROL Network Manager (#NM) Space Desk! 🚀✈️ This month, teams from EUROCONTROL & Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. gathered at our HQ to conduct a series of simulations as part of the SESAR #ECHO2 project (European Concept for Higher Altitude Operations, Phase 2). 🚀 ✈️ These simulations aimed to test the Network Space Launch Real-time Mission Monitoring (RMM) module prototype developed within #ECHO2's Solution 1 under DLR's leadership. The RMM prototype - featuring a real-time (space) mission monitoring module & a customised operational package for NM - will enhance situational awareness for NM's systems, thereby 📌 enabling the timely release of airspace restrictions when no longer needed 📌 providing real-time updates in case of non-nominal events. 👉 This will enable effective monitoring & management of airspace allocation for space transport-related launches & re-entry operations 🚀, including both orbital & suborbital flights. 🌌 The proposed procedural framework represents a cohesive evolution of existing airspace management procedures in the context of the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell (#EACCC), #NM flight &flow management operations, and local air traffic service unit (#ATSU) procedures. Our focus is on developing upgraded procedures that utilise ATM-relevant real-time space data, facilitating improved airspace management efficiency. The simulations for both nominal and non-nominal launches were successful, & mark a significant milestone in establishing procedures that will accommodate & integrate new entrants into European airspace - setting the stage for the future implementation of a "Network Manager Space Desk" 🚀. 🤝The initiative is supported by CIRA, ENAIRE, INECO, ENAC, ENAC, ENAV, ESSP, OKAPI:ORBITS (ACTUALLY , LFV, LIU, HYIMPULSE and NATS), with IATA participating as an observer.

Really interesting discussions at the #SJUAnnual25 conference about how rapidly implementing #ATM innovations ✈️ can deliver tangible benefits – reducing delays & improving #AviationSustainability 🌱. 👉 The SESAR Joint Undertaking Annual Conference in Brussels earlier this week brought together 500+ prominent stakeholders from the European #aviation community, including representatives from the European Commission, the European Parliament, Member States, European and national policymakers, industry leaders, research centres, SMEs & universities. Two of our Directors participated in executive round tables: 📌 Iacopo Prissinotti, Director EUROCONTROL Network Management, discussed the next steps in transitioning to a new service delivery model for a more scalable, safe & resilient ATM in Europe 📌 Tânia Cardoso Simões, European Green Sky Director, discussed the role of ATM in decarbonising aviation & making Europe's skies the most sustainable in the world. 📢 In addition, 40+ #SESARJU projects were profiled in the Digital Sky Marketplace, including ⭐ 8 projects led by EUROCONTROL⭐ (covering everything from enabling trajectory-based operations #TBO and enhancing air traffic demand-capacity balancing and civil-military coordination, to developing virtual centre solutions and integrating new entrants, such as drones). The projects were presented by our experts from #EIH the EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub 💡 and our Brussels HQ, as well as project partners which included: SESAR3 ATC-TBO, SESAR 3 Network Trajectory Based Operations (TBO) Project, SESAR 3 HARMONIC Project, SESAR 3 ISLAND Project, U-ELCOME DSD Project, EUREKA SESAR3 Fast Track project , CORUS five & SESAR3 project MITRANO.

EUROCONTROL Stakeholder Forum on unlocking runway capacity

What's your 💙 EUROCONTROL data product 📊 & why? Answer our survey & tell us what you like reading best! We regularly use our unique #aviation data ✈️ to produce 📌 #EuropeanAviationOverviews, taking regular in-depth snapshots of the network 📌 #DataSnapshots, highlighting fascinating data nuggets 📌 #ThinkPapers, informing, stimulating debate & presenting alternative approaches 📌 #EuropeanAviationTrends, exploring in more detail trending network topics And we offer 2 widely accessed tools: 📱 our EUROCONTROL #DataApp (downloadable for Apple & Android), which we also use to publish on social media weekly network updates highlighting key aviation data 💻our #AviationIntelligencePortal, accessed from our website https://lnkd.in/gbYF-8z Time to pass the mic 🎤! Click 👇 to fill out our short online survey or share your comments below! https://lnkd.in/eZCnjbKD