China poised to lead air traffic management satellite transformation

China is uniquely well placed to lead the global transformation in air traffic management, at least according to Boeing. Boeing Commercial Airplane's vice president of Air Traffic Management, Neil Planzer, has forwarded the opinion that as China is neither burdened by the fragmentation that characterises EU airspace or the dated infrastructure of the US it has "the opportunity to demonstrate strong leadership and create transformational system design, development and implementation through its five year planning cycle".