The Creation of the Single European Sky: Legislation and Systems (2000)

Mike Ambrose, Director General, European Regions Airline Association (ERA).

Planning towards the creation of a single European sky

• Unacceptable delays in Europe
• The Commission’s response: towards a single European sky
• The High Level Group pursues new approaches on airspace management, structures for service provision, regulatory frameworks and implementation
• Complimenting the role of Eurocontrol

Ben Van Houtte, , Head of Unit, Single European Sky, Air Transport Directorate, Energy and Transport DG, European Commission.

Addressing inefficient European air traffic services - Assessing ways to rectify the chronic undercapacity in Europe’s air traffic systems

• An analysis of IATA’s five-point action plan:
• Redesigning air space to increase capacity
• Increasing capacity through better planning
• Promoting European Commission membership of Eurocontrol
• Separating air traffic services regulation from IATA’s provision
• Liberalising the provision of Air Traffic Services

Philip Hogge, Regional Director of Infrastructure, International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Addressing the growth in European air traffic

• The reality of a free routing system in most parts of Europe towards the end of the next decade
• The significant savings potential of 700 million ECU per year
• Simultaneously reducing direct operating costs of the airlines and significantly increasing capacity
• Results from research
• Overcoming sovereignty issues

Alex Hendriks, Head of Airspace Management and Navigation Unit, EUROCONTROL.

The building blocks of a European Air Traffic Management System

• The urgent need to provide the necessary airspace capacity to meet Europe’s increasing air traffic demand and facilitate the next generation ATM system
• AVENUE in the 4th and 5th framework programme
• The potential benefit of AVENUE to the ATM world
• The progress of the project

Joel Moyaux, Project Co-ordinator, Societe Francaise D’Etude et de Realisations D’Equipments Aeronautiques (Sofrevia).

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Derek McLauchlan, Secretary General, Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO).

Looking to improve the world’s crowded skies

• The case for privatisation
• The long term solution of free flight
• The role of the European Union
• Working towards a cultural change

Peter Malanik, General Manager Technical and Operations, Association of European Airlines.

ATM service provider perspective

• Operational, technical and institutional arguments for a global ATM system
• Operational, technical and institutional features of a global ATM system
• Regional perspectives
• Stakeholders perspectives
• Conflicting or converging action plans

Dr Francis Schubert, Corporate Secretary, Swisscontrol.

Delivering CNS/ATM solutions based on an airline telecommunications infrastructure

• Hurdles to investment
• Leveraging airline needs
• Synchronising schedules
• Harmonising requirements
• Multipurpose solutions

Philip Clinch, Director Air Traffic Services, SITA AIRCOM (Geneva).

Finding a viable, cost-effective consolidated operational concept

• Defining and assessing the viability of consolidated operational and concept based on
• EUROCONTROL’s Operational Concept Document (OCD)
• Identifying the ATM elements that show greater opportunity to increase capacity, optimise the economics of the system and improve safety
• Producing an operational concept ready for validation in the 5th Framework Programme
• The proposals of TORCH: from strategic planning to real-time optimisation
• Assessing the viability of the TORCH proposal

Nicholas Suarez, TORCH Project Co-ordinator, ISDEFE.

The issue of air travel licence in Europe

• Does the lack if a common ATC licence hinder the harmonisation process?
• Addressing the shortage of ATC training schools in Europe
• Common European ATC operating licence
• Role of ICAO in supporting ATC licence
• Commercialisation policy and lack of ATC training schools
• Analysing the results of the UK CAA study into a common European licence

Richard Barber, Managing Director, Safeskys.