ANSP news
Airports news
- Brussels Airport and skeyes test use of drones for bird control during normal operations - Brussels Airport and skeyes continue to explore the possible uses of drones at the airport with a second series of testing days. These test days specifically focus on the use of drones for bird control at the airport, to monitor the presence of birds and to direct them away from aircraft when necessary. The tests happen in safe conditions during normal operations and will have no impact on the air traffic.
Market news
Reports and data
- EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot #16 - The 16th EUROCONTROL Data Snapshot is here, looking at the recovery this summer to 70% of 2019 flights concealing wide variations.
- DFS - Holidays season leads to continued traffic growth - The upward trend in air traffic observed since the beginning of the holiday season continued in August. With 198,460 aircraft movements, the traffic level was only about 36 per cent below the air traffic figures of 2019. For the first time, DFS controllers handled more take-offs and landings at Leipzig Airport than they did before the crisis.
- FABEC traffic sees recovery accompanied by uncertainty and volatility - FABEC traffic rose steadily in the first half of 2021 to just over 1 million flights, still well below the volume handled prior to the pandemic in 2019. In June 2021, traffic reached 43.7% of 2019 flight movements, up from just 32.8% recorded in January, as FABEC ANSPs scaled up services during COVID recovery. Airport traffic also increased, rising to 46% of 2019 levels in the first half of the year.
- Air traffic recovering: number of flights over Ukraine in August reaches 76% of pre-crisis level - Gradual recovery of air traffic in Ukrainian airspace continues. In August, UkSATSE provided air navigation services to 29,048 flights, which is 76% of the pre-crisis August 2019 volume.
- Traffic at Avinor's airports continues to increase - The number of air movements to/from Avinor's airports was 55,589 in August, an increase of just under 20 per cent compared with 2020.
- Fraport Traffic Figures – August 2021: Summer Holiday Travel Boosts Passenger Numbers at Frankfurt Airport - Aircraft movements climbed by 63.3 percent year-on-year to 28,897 takeoffs and landings.
UAV and UTM
- Unmanned airspace - UK government releases GBP65 million to fund phase 3 of Future Flight unmanned research - Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is investing up to GBP65 million in the next phase of Future Flight research. Projects must demonstrate integrated aviation systems and underpinning technologies that enable new classes of electric or autonomous air vehicles.
- Inmarsat’s new Velaris connectivity solution to unlock unlimited possibilities of fast-growing unmanned aviation industry - Inmarsat announced the launch of its advanced new Velaris connectivity solution, which is uniquely positioned to serve as a catalyst for the safe and rapid growth of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles industry.
- Unmanned airspace - Detect and avoid – the global research programmes tackling the next major technology hurdle for UTM - There are two key technologies which will need to be brought up to a commercial aviation grade of precision and reliability before scalable, beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone operations in a shared airspace, supported by a UAS traffic management system, can go ahead: a robust communications network and an automatic detect-and-avoid system.
- Altitude Angel Selected as UTM Provider for Blue Dart India BVLOS Demonstration - Altitude Angel today announced it has been selected by India-based South Asia's premier express air and integrated transportation & distribution company Blue Dart, to provide its award-winning services to Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations supported by Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
- OneSky and AX Enterprize Complete First Cross Compatibility Test of Broadcast RID - OneSky and AX Enterprize have collaborated on one of the US’ first successful cross compatibility tests of Broadcast Remote ID (RID), ensuring cross-compatibility between non-organic systems.
- Unmanned airspace - Becker Avionics, Iris Automation partnership provides airborne opto-electric/audio collision alert system - Becker Avionics has entered into a strategic partnership with Iris Automation to increase the situational awareness of general aviation pilots and advance uncrewed aerial vehicle safety. The two companies will jointly develop a non-required safety enhancing equipment system to detect and warn pilots of nearby, potentially threatening aircraft.
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