ATC

News, issues, personnel, equipment and developments about air traffic management.

Apr 22, 2014 - 2:05 PM
Aviation Groups Urge Congress To Fund Contract Towers in FY2015
$149 million was allocated for the contract tower program in Fiscal Year 2014.
DFS Chairman and CEO Klaus-Dieter Scheurle
Apr 14, 2014 - 11:23 AM
Germany's DFS Drives ATM Efficiency Using Technology
DFS controllers manage 10,000 flights in German airspace each day, and about three million movements annually.
Air Traffic Management Bureau
Apr 10, 2014 - 1:30 PM
China Improves ATM With Help From Partners
FAA Air Traffic Organization COO Teri Bristol
Mar 24, 2014 - 2:35 PM
FAA Names New Air Traffic Organization COO
Deputy COO Teri Bristol will take over as COO of the agency's ATO.
Florian Guillermet of the Sesar Joint Undertaking
Feb 26, 2014 - 8:34 AM
Sesar Joint Undertaking Names New Executive Director
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx
Feb 25, 2014 - 5:05 PM
U.S. Open To New Ideas on ATC Privatization, Foxx Says
Feb 12, 2014 - 11:10 PM
Thales gets ATM contract in Thailand
The control tower at Changi Airport in Singapore is a friendlier workplace since the introduction of Thales’ Lorads III air traffic management system.
Feb 12, 2014 - 12:35 AM
New Singapore ATC Management System Goes Live
Japan’s solution to airspace congestion is CARATS (collaborative action for renovation of air traffic systems), which shifts from sectorized airspace to trajectory-based operations, managing flights on an end-to-end basis. Tests were recently completed using CARATS for 4-D trajectory approaches at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.
Feb 10, 2014 - 5:45 PM
Asia Pacific Countries Taking ATM Initiative
Controller at Maastricht Upper Area Control Center
Jan 21, 2014 - 8:36 AM
European Unions Rekindle ATC Strike Plans over 'Single Sky'