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🎓 Navigate the future evolution of European #CNS with our latest classroom course. 🌍✈️ 👉 Our EUROCONTROL Aviation Learning Centre (#EALC) team is offering the "CNS Evolution in Europe [CNS-EVOL]" classroom course, which provides a comprehensive overview of the CNS Evolution Plan - the key to modernising European ATM systems. 🔍 Aimed at civil & military professionals from #ANSPs, #airports, #NSAs, #CAAs & regulatory bodies involved in CNS compliance, the course includes: ✅ Strategic insights into CNS modernisation & optimisation ✅ #Spectrum management & #CivMil #interoperability ✅ Expert-led discussions & hands-on exercises on Minimum Operational Networks ✅ Perspectives from #pilots, ANSP managers & CNS domain experts 🚀 Book your place now: https://lnkd.in/eB7nzTBt #CNS #AviationTraining #EUROCONTROL #ATMMasterPlan #AirTrafficManagement

🚀 Unlocking #airport #runway capacity: an essential webinar 💻 briefing you won't want to miss! As air traffic ✈️ continues to rise, maximising runway capacity & efficiency has never been more crucial at Europe's airports. 📅 On 20 February 2025 from 15:00-16:30 CET, join us for our next EUROCONTROL #StakeholderForum to explore how advanced air traffic solutions are boosting airport runway throughput while maintaining safety levels. 🛫 #WIIFY? Insights from our panel of leading experts: 🎤 Ben Sandford, NATS 🎤 Andrew Shand, Leidos 🎤 Isabelle Halevy, AirNav Ireland 🎤 Andrzej Stachlewski, Pansa 🎤 Daniel Holt, LVNL They'll be covering: • Decision-making processes: how airports choose the right #ATC solutions • Solutions & what worked: the ➕ & ➖ of various ATC technologies • Challenges & lessons learned: overcoming deployment hurdles with actionable insights • Observed benefits: examining real-world data showing measurable improvements in runway efficiency Moderated by EUROCONTROL Head Airports Vincent Treve, this session will feature a live Q&A - a chance for you to engage & discover how you transform your airport operations... 🔗 Secure your spot today & submit your questions for the experts! https://lnkd.in/ez2Z2Kp2 #EUROCONTROL #ATC #AirTrafficControl #RunwayCapacity #AviationInnovation #airports #innovation

🤔 Which were the busiest worldwide city pairs in 2024 in terms of flights ✈️? Our #DataSnapshot investigates the top 💯…(and our pic sends a clear hint about #1!) The top 5 global city pairs in 2024 based on daily connections were all domestic & Jeju-Seoul 🇰🇷 topped the list with 226 average daily ✈️. The other top pairs? Melbourne-Sydney 🇦🇺 (157 daily ✈️), Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo 🇧🇷 (152), Sapporo-Tokyo (147) & Fukuoka-Tokyo 🇯🇵 (137). Some other interesting top 💯city pair facts: 📌 the region with the most pairs? Asia/Pacific with 45/100 📌 the most-paired 🔗 cities? New York (13 other destinations), then Tokyo (8) & London (7) 📌 the longest & the shortest ⌚️ flight times between pairs? London-New York (on average 6.8 hours) - and Vancouver-Victoria (only 23 mins!). 📌 Europe's busiest city pairs? Dublin-London (91 daily ✈️) for the third year running & 27th globally, followed by Amsterdam-London (84 daily ✈️) in 37th. Loads more info in our 49th #DataSnapshot 👇 https://lnkd.in/e9Vru3DY

🌍✈️ Working on improving air quality at an airport? Join our 27 March webinar 💻 to find out how our OpenALAQS tool, which models and analyses emissions from aircraft operations & airport sources, can help. 🔍 OpenALAQS is a cutting-edge, open-source tool developed by EUROCONTROL. Integrated as a plugin for the open-source Geographic Information System QGIS, OpenALAQS simplifies the process of defining various emission sources like runways, taxiways & buildings. 📊 **Why attend?** This webinar featuring #TeamEUROCONTROL expert Stavros Stromatas will illuminate crucial airport local air quality issues and demonstrate how OpenALAQS can help assess airport emissions & their effects on local air quality. Participants will gain insights into: 🌐 Setting up a comprehensive study ☁️ Generating detailed emissions inventories 🌫️ Performing dispersion calculations using AUSTAL ✨ Exporting and visualizing results in multiple formats. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your knowledge and skills in airport air quality assessment! Register now for the webinar on 27 March!🌱🌐 https://lnkd.in/eP-hpqbq

✈️ Registration for #ICNS2025 is now open 🌍: time to explore the latest in #CNS/#ATM policies, technologies, research & implementation. ICNS - the Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference - brings together top leaders from government, industry & academia, with this year's edition focusing on "Towards Innovative and Efficient CNS Service Provision". And we're delighted 😊 to be hosting it 📍 at our Brussels’ HQ, the first time ever that the event has been held in Europe! 👉 Get up to speed on the latest updates & cutting-edge developments that will the future of air traffic management in Europe and globally - and network with the top experts in the field... 📅 Event dates: 8-10 April 2025 🚀 Register now at https://lnkd.in/gf2EtryG A special thanks to our sponsors: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Airbus, Frequentis, Aireon LLC, Viasat, Indra, Startical Sunhillo Corporation. ESSP SAS and to our co-hosts SESAR Joint Undertaking & SESAR Deployment Manager. #ICNS2025 #Aviation #CNS #AirTrafficManagement #IEEE #AIAA #EUROCONTROL

Our latest #EAO shows air traffic ✈️ up across the board in Week 6: higher in almost all major #airports, #airlines & States than in Week 5, with 24,776 average daily network flights, ⬆️5% vs the same period in 2024 & ⬆️3% week-on-week. 👉 A quick look at Europe's busiest airports shows 📍 all are handling more traffic than in 2024, and all bar 1st place Istanbul (1,336 daily ✈️, ▼4%) are busier than last week 📍 the highest growth vs 2024 (⬆️13%) is shared by 4th place Paris CDG (1,143 daily ✈️) and 8th place Rome Fiumicino (755 daily ✈️) 📍 Barcelona in 7th place recorded the highest growth vs Week 5, ⬆️7% & 842 daily ✈️ 📍 Zürich joins the top 10 on 626 daily ✈️, ⬆️6% vs 2024, compared to late-2024, replacing Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen 📍 …but only 3* of those top 10 airports (London Heathrow, Madrid and Barcelona) are currently handling traffic above their 2019 levels (*4/10 with Istanbul, which we exclude as it only went into full operations in April 2019). Other key highlights in this edition of our #EuropeanAviationOutlook: 📊 96% of 2019 traffic for February so far overall – with the proviso that the situation varies greatly across the network ⏰ 85% arrival punctuality & 80% departure punctuality, better than both 2024 & 2019 📌 12% higher en-route ATFM delays than Week 5 (approx. 7K daily minutes or 0.28 min/flight), but still ▼18% vs 2024 🛢️ 2.26 USD/gallon average jet fuel price on 07 February, ⬆️9% vs early December 2024 For more in-depth insights, check out our latest #EAO 👇 https://lnkd.in/eT4_bwZu

We're at the #ParisSaclaySummit – Choose Science, and a session by Laurent Renou Head of our Innovation Hub is about to start - follow the live stream here: https://lnkd.in/eNumaNsw 👉 The Summit - held in Paris-Saclay on 12-13 Feb, the future home of the #EIH, is an international event highlighting #science's role in addressing society's major challenges. Don't miss Laurent's session entitled ⭐ Research funding: Europe's impact on society ⭐ that starts today at 🕔 17:30 He'll talk about️ aligning #aviation ✈️ with EU objectives and addressing key aviation challenges, including sustainability, new entrant integration, transport intermodality & workforce development, through public-private partnerships such as #SESAR (innovation in air traffic management) and #CleanAviation (disruptive aircraft technological innovation). ℹ️ EUROCONTROL is a major partner of Paris Saclay Summit, which is organised by Le Point, Région Ile de France, Communauté Paris-Saclay and Département de l'Essonne with the support of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche and France Science.

⚠️ Mind the research to deployment gap! 🚧 Yesterday we welcomed SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM) representatives to #EIH the EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub to discuss how we can best cooperate to make #SESAR research solutions ready for deployment by operational stakeholders. Tânia Cardoso Simões, EUROCONTROL's Director of European Green Sky & Laurent Renou, Head of EIH, together with the team, had the opportunity to exchange with: 📌 Mariagrazia La Piscopia, SDM Executive Director 📌 Heiko Teper, SDM Head of Strategy and Technical Execution The key topic was to see how EUROCONTROL and its Innovation Hub can support SDM in making SESAR Joint Undertaking industrial research solutions that reached technology readiness level 6 (TRL6) ready for #deployment. In addition, we talked about: ✈️ EIH strategy #Innov2030, part of EUROCONTROL's #RaisingTheBar programme ✈️ SDM strategy and plans ✈️ #EATIN - our user-driven innovation portfolio addressing stakeholders' operational challenges ✈️ EIH's innovation for ANSPs projects including ATC Automation & TMA Optimisation. We also gave our guests a tour of our unique simulation facilities, including en-route, tower, network and cockpit simulators, and visited an ongoing simulation preparation session with Italian stakeholders on higher airspace operations.

EUROCONTROL Stakeholder Forum on unlocking runway capacity

📊 24,776 average daily flights ✈️ in Week 6's #NetworkUpdate, ⬆️3% vs Week 5 & traffic growing every day. 👉That's brought YTD traffic to 966K flights, which is steady at 95% of pre-pandemic, and ⬆️5% vs last year. The bulk of that growth 🤔? Intra-European, by far the largest segment & ⬆️4% vs Week 5 on 18,758 daily ✈️. Of the top 5 flows, only 3rd largest ◁▷ North Africa was up more week-on-week (⬆️5%, 1,150 daily ✈️), whereas traffic dipped elsewhere (◁▷ the Middle East ▼2%, 1,379 daily ✈️, and ▼1% ◁▷ North America & Asia/Pacific, 921 & 841 daily ✈️ respectively in both directions). 8 of the 10 busiest #airlines & States, & 9/10 busiest #airports, were up vs Week 5 (with all airlines and airports, and 8/10 States, busier than this time last year). A quick round up of the top 3s in comparison to the previous week: 📌 #airline groups: Ryanair 2,527 daily ✈️ (⬆️11%), Turkish Airlines 1,351 daily ✈️ (▼5%) & easyJet 1,227 daily ✈️ (⬆️29%, the fastest increase among the top 40 airlines let alone the top 10) 📌 #airports: iGA Istanbul Airport 1,336 daily ✈️ (▼4%), London Heathrow 1,276 daily ✈️ (⬆️2%) & Amsterdam Schiphol 1,234 daily ✈️ (⬆️3%) 📌 States: The UK 🇬🇧 4,646 daily ✈️ (⬆️5%), Spain 🇪🇸 4,117 daily ✈️ (⬆️7%, the highest in the top 10) & Germany 🇩🇪 3,875 daily ✈️ (⬆️2%). Week 6 also saw ⏰ 85% arrival punctuality across the network (⬆️1pp vs Week 5), and ⚡13,529 daily minutes of #ATFM delay (8% worse than Week 5), 26% of which was driven by bad weather 🌧️, & 55% down to capacity/staffing issues, with delays split almost equally between airports & en route. 📊 For more unique aviation data in your pocket, 24/7, 👉 check out our EUROCONTROL DATA app on Apple/Google Play.