European aviation receives boost from air traffic management industry

Air navigation service provider members of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) and EUROCONTROL have outlined how innovation and partnership in the ATM industry have helped to tackle unprecedented levels of air traffic and improve environmental performance during a meeting with EUROCONTROL Director General, Eamonn Brennan at EUROCONTROL's headquarters in Brussels today.Success was attributed to ANSPs working better together to re-distribute traffic; taking a more Europe-wide rather than national approach to managing traffic; and gaining access to airspace normally reserved for military use. These were measures agreed by CANSO members and the EUROCONTROL Network Manager to tackle unprecedented traffic growth and future-proof the sustainability of the aviation industry going forward.