The pressure on air navigation services and air traffic management to evolve at pace to meet sustainability and operational challenges has never been greater. In the context of net zero goals, the momentum behind artificial intelligence, and the autonomy and digitalisation megatrends, we sat down with Jolana Dvorska, senior research…
The digitisation of air traffic management and air traffic control towers is one of the technological changes in aviation most strongly accelerated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and travel shutdown. Expanding swiftly beyond the rural and remote airports where they were first implemented, digital air traffic control towers…
Europe’s SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking is as complex as its acronym, and even more important. The JU is a public-private partnership implementing the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research project, with more than a hundred initiatives — many of them digital — to improve air traffic management (ATM) We last…
Our Marketplace Spotlight series focuses on the partners making the Yocova platform come alive and the digital aviation solutions they provide. Read on to hear from FoxATM about their tools, experience and expertise in designing runway occupancy measurement applications. Find out about the Foxbox toolbox, an elegant yet effective way…
Airlines can accrue bottom-line benefits from the use of cockpit visual guidance systems which enable increased operations in adverse weather, as Bernie Baldwin reports. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.” This quote from George Orwell’s 1984 might not readily spring to mind when…
The benefits of live satellite tracking are many — improved safety, more efficient operations, better information — but a step change has come with the recent adoption of new satellite-based ADS-B tracking. Conclusion of hard work within the industry before and during the COVID-19 pandemic now means that any flight at…
“Ground operations,” says the US Federal Aviation Administration in the second chapter of its Airplane Flying Handbook, “is where safe flight begins and ends.” From preparation and planning including flight and crew scheduling and route optimisation through to ground handling of aircraft, this vital part of the aviation puzzle has…
Creating, adjusting and optimising airline route networks was hard enough before COVID-19, especially across multiple hubs. With constantly changing demand, supply — and externalities in the form of fluctuating restrictions — the last eighteen months has been even more complex. Enter a new AI-optimised, cloud-based, full-stack solution from Lufthansa Systems called NetLine/HubDesigner,…
Regional aviation is often overlooked when air transport markets come under discussion, but it is an invaluable market segment, as Bernie Baldwin reports. Low-fare airlines, urban air mobility solutions, widebody retirements, electric aircraft. Look at the agendas of so many of the online webinars and conferences involving aircraft – rather…
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