DFS - Air Traffic Control

DFS is responsible for air traffic control in Germany. It is a company organised under private law and 100% owned by the Federal Republic of Germany.
Founded in 1993, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH is the successor to the Federal Administration of Air Navigation Services, a government authority which had existed for 39 years. To do this, the German Bundestag had to change the German Constitution and the German Aviation Act. Since January 1993, DFS has been controlling air traffic in Germany.

In Germany, military and civil air traffic controllers work side by side. Since 1994, DFS has been responsible for the handling of both civil and military air traffic in peacetime. Only military aerodromes are exempted from this integration.

The company's Headquarters are located in Langen, near Frankfurt. Throughout Germany DFS is represented at 16 international airports and at nine regional airports by its subsidiary The Tower Company.