Welcome to the fifth issue of the EUROCONTROL e-Newsletter. This newsletter aims to keep you abreast of news and developments at EUROCONTROL as well as to provide you with the latest European air traffic and delay figures.
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DG’s EDITORIAL
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2011 is already proving to be a busy year for EUROCONTROL, with work on our institutional reform, on preparing for the introduction of the Performance Regime, on seeing how the developments coming out of SESAR can be implemented, on looking ahead to how research should be organised in the longer term, on bedding down our new internal organisation… And that’s on top of our normal activities!
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Volcanic ash crisis exercise
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One year on from the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano the EC, EUROCONTROL, and EASA participated in a major ICAO crisis exercise to validate changes and improvements to the volcanic ash contingency plan and procedures.
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European Aeronautics Days, 30 March-1 April 2011, Madrid
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The sixth European Aeronautics Days ( Aerodays)brought together aeronautics stakeholders, ministries, agencies and R&D centres from all over Europe and overseas. It was a great success, with around 1,600 visitors – far in excess of what was expected.
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January-February-March 2011
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Total number of flights: 3.3% growth on 2010
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- On 16 March, Luc Tytgat joined EUROCONTROL as Director of the Single Sky Directorate Read more
- Avinor is the world's first ANSP to deploy Point Merge, an innovative method developed by EUROCONTROL to improve and harmonise arrival operations. Read more
- In the frame of the FABEC Project West, a real-time simulation looking at new routes in one of the busiest areas in Europe took place at EUROCONTROL’s premises in Brétigny Read more
- 142 new direct routes have been implemented in the airspace controlled by the EUROCONTROL Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre Read more
- EUROCONTROL published the History Book, written by John McInally, a former EUROCONTROL official. This Book is a description of the key institutional, legal and organisational events and decisions that have determined the progress of the EUROCONTROL Organisation and its Agency through the past fifty years.
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EUROCONTROL will be at Le Bourget on 20-26 June 2011. Come to visit our stand (number 69, in Hall 6, Aisle A), to talk to our experts on our role in ATM, network operations, our contribution to satellite navigation technologies and ATM training.
Check out EUROCONTROL forthcoming events and meetings |
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