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European ATM safety programmes 96
By David Learmount
Airport safety 100
By David Learmount
Security in European skies 104
By Edward Downs
The environment
The environment 108
By Simon Michell
The greening of ATM 112
By Brendan Gallagher
The airlines and the environment 115
By Brendan Gallagher
Weather monitoring 119
By Martial Tardy
Profiles
What is EUROCONTROL? 124
By Simon Michell
What is the Association of European Airlines? 127
By Simon Michell
Advertiser index 130
FOREWORD
11
MEETING THE
CHALLENGE
Víctor M. Aguado, Director General, EUROCONTROL
he air transport industry continues to grow as more
and more passengers take to the skies. However, the
industry is still challenged by fuel prices, security
threats, environmental issues and the potential capacity
squeezes that this high level of growth brings in its wake.
In order to overcome these challenges, the industry needs
to be able to rely on superior performance from
infrastructure networks and services. These networks – Air
Traffic Management (ATM) and airports forming two of the
most visible – have to work in smooth partnership with
airlines and other airspace users to ensure that the highest
standards are achieved.
T The industry
needs to be able
to rely on superior
performance from
infrastructure networks
and services
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12
EUROCONTROL is acutely aware of how much the airlines
have done over the last five years to improve their own
performance, especially in the area of cost-effectiveness. In
our opinion, it behoves ATM to do its best to support the
airlines’ superlative efforts and make certain that the system is
the best possible, particularly from a cost point of view.
In line with this thinking, various studies on cost-efficiency
have been undertaken by EUROCONTROL’s Performance
Review Commission (PRC). Their findings are unsettling.
En-route horizontal inefficiencies, for instance, cost airspace
users some E1.4 billion annually. Improving en-route
horizontal flight efficiency by one-third during weekends
could generate annual savings in the order of E130 million
per annum. Work has begun on an initiative to make these
improvements a reality.
However, the main cause of these inefficiencies is not, as
was previously thought, the national borders. In fact, the
sub-optimal structure of civil/military airspace is a major
contributor. This is an area in which EUROCONTROL, with its
dual responsibility for both civil and military matters, can
make a sizeable contribution.
There is also the fundamental issue of fragmentation. The
PRC estimates that fragmentation of air navigation service
providers and control centres incurs additional costs of up to
E1.4 billion per annum – an impressive sum when set against
the fact that the entire cost of en-route air traffic
management in Europe is in the order of E6 billion each year.
These factors will compound the challenge posed by
increasing traffic levels in the future. Traffic has been growing
steadily since 2001 in Europe and will probably continue to
grow at a rate of around 3-4 per cent per annum. This means
that traffic figures in 2024 will be double those of today,
reaching around 18 million flights per year.
Such an amount of traffic could potentially have a
significant impact on safety and capacity levels. In order to
make certain that safety and capacity will not be unduly
affected, a number of technical and operational
developments will have to be made.
Together with all aviation stakeholders – notably the airlines
– EUROCONTROL is planning and working on ensuring that
safety and capacity targets are met; it is dedicated to
ensuring that future systems are built in time and that
inefficiencies are ironed out.
In short, EUROCONTROL aims at facilitating the provision of
an ATM system that is safe, efficient, capacious – and one
that gives excellent value for money. The pages that follow
will give you a more precise idea of how we intend to meet
this goal.
EUROCONTROL is
acutely aware of how
much the airlines have
done over the last five
years to improve their
own performance
FOREWORD
17
am grateful to Víctor Aguado and to EUROCONTROL for
having invited AEA to participate in this yearbook. Airlines
and Air Traffic Management (ATM), along with the
airports, form the three pillars on which air transport is
founded – although there are, of course, many more players
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