To learn more about the EU’s transformative SESAR project – Single European Sky ATM Research – CANSO Europe’s Johnny Pring talks to Andreas Boschen, Executive Director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking, and Mariagrazia La Piscopia, Executive Director of the SESAR Deployment Manager. As European traffic levels continue to grow, how can air navigation s…

CANSO’s Media Manager, Angy Odysseos, speaks to Pierre Berolatti, Deputy Chief of Operations at the French air navigation service provider (DSNA), about managing air traffic during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris this past summer. Pierre walks us through the preparation and execution of the games from an aviation perspective, highlighting…

CANSO Europe’s Johnny Pring speaks to Urs Lauener, Chief Operating Officer of Swiss ANSP Skyguide, about Virtual Centres and their potential to transform air traffic management. By enabling ANSPs to offer their services independently of location, Virtual Centres should provide greater operational flexibility and ultimately more capacity for airspac…

As Europeans plan their summer holidays, European ANSPs are preparing for a busy travel season. Overall flight numbers are predicted to grow by 7 per cent compared to last summer and, in some countries, traffic will surpass pre-COVID levels. Yet there is also continued disruption to traffic flows due to the conflict in Ukraine, military training ex…

In the second of our special episodes from Airspace World 2024, we look at the Future Skies: Tomorrow's Voices activities taking place at the show. Students and young professionals from the aviation industry spent the day at Airspace World in a series of sessions and discussions, culminating in a careers fair. We talked to two of them.…

Airspace World 2024, the world's largest gathering of the air traffic management industry, has started in Geneva, Switzerland. Airspace World begins with the CANSO Executive Summit 2024, at which Dr. Mark Esposito, a renowned expert on AI, gave the opening keynote speech, titled The Great Remobilisation. Dr. Esposito explained the current challenge…

How can ANSPs assess and demonstrate their green credentials? CANSO’s GreenATM programme was established for this very purpose. It provides an independent, industry endorsed, accreditation of an ANSP’s efforts to improve its operational and organisational impact on climate and the environment. Two of the first CANSO members to be accredited are ske…

CANSO Europe's Johnny Pring talks to Eduardo Garcia, Senior Manager Future Skies, CANSO, about the airspace of tomorrow. How will we integrate drones and flying taxis alongside traditional air traffic? How should new and existing aviation players collaborate to their mutual advantage, and what regulation is required? And what will be the role of ai…

The Ukraine war has had a profound impact on European aviation, pushing traffic to the west and south-west and creating new overflight routes. How have air navigation services providers coped with these new traffic flows, greater military airspace needs and increased volatility? The CANSO air traffic management podcast spoke to two senior ANSP mana…

Welcome to the CANSO Air Traffic Management Podcast. In this pilot episode, CANSO Europe’s Johnny Pring talks to Thierry Brégou, Head of International Affairs at Skyguide to answer the question: How should air traffic management adapt to climate change? They look at how climate change is already impacting ATM through effects such as increased tempe…