EUROCONTROL

EUROCONTROL is a pan-European civil military organisation dedicated to supporting European aviation.
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EUROCONTROL is a pan-European, civil-military intergovernmental organisation dedicated to supporting European aviation with unparalleled technical expertise and a proven track record for innovation and delivery across the aviation value chain. We work together with our Member States and partners to deliver a Single European Sky that will help overcome the safety, capacity and performance challenge

s facing European aviation in the 21st century. The EUROCONTROL Network Manager proactively manages a pan-European ATM Network spanning 41 member states and 2 comprehensive agreement states, handling pre-pandemic 11.1 million flights in 2019 in close liaison with the air navigation service providers, airspace users, the military and airports. The Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre provides an air traffic control service for the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and northern Germany. The Central Route Charges Office handles the billing, collection and redistribution of aviation charges. We support the European Commission, EASA and National Supervisory Authorities in their regulatory activities. We are actively involved in research, development and validation, with our research and innovation activities centred around our Innovation Hub in France. Our R&I work makes a substantial contribution to the outputs of the SESAR Joint Undertaking. Our aim is to deliver tangible results which will improve the ATM system's performance in the medium and long term. We are a civil-military organisation with unique expertise ensuring a platform for military and civil military cooperation designed to enhance airspace capacity, flight efficiency, military mission effectiveness and civil-military interoperability. And at our Training Institute in Luxembourg, we provide cutting edge online and in-person technical ATM training courses to around 100,000 aviation professionals every year.

27/12/2025

🎄✈️ As we all digest festive fare, a useful update on progress on Trajectory-Based Operations ( ) from our Innovation Hub!💡

Before the break, our colleagues completed a major real-time to validate procedures supporting alongside controllers from the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency 🇵🇱 & the Romanian Air Traffic Services Administration 🇷🇴.

The SESAR Joint Undertaking ATC-TBO exercise assessed:
✈️ datalink-enabled closed clearances
✈️ ADS-C EPP reporting
✈️ ground automation tools that generate advisories in the vertical dimension enabling climbs 🛫 & descents 🛬 to be optimised.

The simulation included:
🔗 a live connection with an Airbus A321 simulator in Toulouse 🇫🇷 to validate cockpit workload & management of these clearances
🔗 a real-time connection to skyguide's SkyTICS system to validate ground–ground aspects.

The simulation showed that trajectory revisions for can be coordinated using standard operational On-Line Data Interchange ( ) TBO between 2️⃣ ANSPs.

And that sends a really strong 💪 message regarding deployment in the short-term!

The tested procedures deliver big benefits such as:
⭐ a significant reduction in controller workload
⭐ the potential for major increases in en-route capacity
⭐ increased predictability thanks to air-ground trajectory synchronisation.

A big thankyou to all partners, and to the operational, validation, human-factors, safety & technical teams, for pushing important TBO concepts closer to operational use.

More info: Dan Ivanescu

24/12/2025

Whether you're keeping traffic moving ✈️ or taking a well-earned rest: festive wishes🎄 to everyone in European & beyond!

And a big round of applause 👏 for all our stakeholders as we look back on a very productive year that culminated in the release of our strategy.

💬 As our DG Raúl Medina said in his festive LinkedIn message, "special thanks 👏 to our Member States, partners & stakeholders. Together with our , we achieved significant progress in 2025, demonstrating once again the power of collaboration across Europe's aviation network."

🎉 Have a great one whatever you're doing over the coming days from all of us here at !✈️

23/12/2025

📣 Just out: the latest Implementation Monitoring Report 📊 📈, jointly developed with our 🌍 global partner , which charts steady progress in implementing ICAO's Global Air Navigation Plan ( ) across the ICAO EUR Region. ✈️

The guides the evolution of air navigation systems in Europe, and the 11th edition of this Report – which was jointly developed by EUROCONTROL and the EUR/NAT Office – covering 2024 progress was unanimously ✅endorsed at ICAO's European Aviation System Planning Group ( ) meeting in Paris last month.

New to this edition is data from , the Location of an Aircraft in Distress Repository developed & hosted by EUROCONTROL and which forms a core element of 's Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System ( ).

🔍 Built on EUROCONTROL's LSSIP+ process, the report avoids duplication and reduces the reporting burden on States – an efficient approach warmly endorsed by the as best monitoring practice.

Read the report 👉 https://www.eurocontrol.int/publication/aviation-system-block-upgrade-asbu-implementation-monitoring-report-2024?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=EUROCONTROL

21/12/2025

📣 🆕edition of our Aeronautical Information Publications ( ) - essential for safe, efficient & harmonised air navigation across Europe!

Edition 2.2 of EUROCONTROL's Guidelines for Harmonised AIP Publication & Data Set Provision is now available as part of the Standards Catalogue.

🆕 to Edition 2.2 are:
🧩 practical fixes for AIS digital data sets, tackling real-world implementation challenges
🗺️ a new ENR 1.8 specimen, providing a clearer, harmonised en-route presentation for AIPs
📚 expanded EU regulatory references, improving compliance traceability for AIS/AIM stakeholders
🔧 updated DHO reference for SDM, enhancing consistency across related specifications.

Developed with the active involvement of the Aeronautical Information Management Group ( ) and its subgroups under working arrangements, this edition consolidates harmonised guidance for aeronautical information publication and data set provision.

➡️The Guidelines offer practical, agreed harmonisation solutions across the region, complementing existing provisions & EU regulations, and ensuring clearer, more consistent publication of aeronautical information in & digital data sets.

👉 Download the full document here: https://www.eurocontrol.int/publication/eurocontrol-guidelines-harmonised-aip-publication-and-data-set-provision?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=EUROCONTROL

19/12/2025

Bringing together 🤝 the Icelandic 🇮🇸 CAA, ANSP & drone operators to advance on & the safe integration of drones into Icelandic airspace.

👉Work supporting the integration of low (as well as very high) altitude ops into the European network is one of the big prios in our new strategy, and our recent Support to States ( ) & Airspace Risk Assessment ( ) workshop in our newest Member State allowed all parties to explore, in a highly engaging & collaborative setting, experiences & operational challenges.

This workshop capped a very busy 1st year of membership of our Organisation for Iceland which – as our newest Member State – has received priority access to tailored support from EUROCONTROL.

Thanks to our hosts the Icelandic Transport Authority for the warm welcome and constructive discussions & our EUROCONTROL Innovation Hub colleagues for their work supporting the latest cooperation.

19/12/2025

📊 Our to better predict fuel burn has a winner out of an impressive 2,127 machine learning 🤖 submissions from 51 teams!

A huge thankyou 👏 to all the data scientists who signed up & took part in this year's challenge, which invited participants to:
📌 build machine-learning 🤖 models to predict fuel burn at different stages of flight using open aviation data (flight intervals and fuel consumption)
📌 collaborate, compete and openly share innovative solutions
📌 contribute to a more 🌱✈️ aviation sector through data-driven insights

And congratulations to our top three teams! 👏🏆, especially the winner "Resourceful Quiver", a team of PhD students from Delft University of Technology for "a well-founded and thoughtful methodology that is strongly informed by domain knowledge rather than relying exclusively on machine-learning techniques. In particular, the team effectively leverages insights from last year's competition, notably the mass estimator approach, to model ATOW". Bravo!

👉 This is organised on an annual basis by the Performance Review Commission ( ) in collaboration with OpenSky Network. It aims to uncover creative, data-driven approaches with real-world impacts, helping the PRC fulfil its task of providing independent advice on European air traffic management ( ) performance to EUROCONTROL's governing bodies.

Curious to learn more about the winning models & how the competition unfolded? 🔗Check out the dedicated webpage here: https://ansperformance.eu/study/data-challenge/dc2025/outcome.html?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=EUROCONTROL

17/12/2025

👏 Great to bring & Network Manager ( ) experts together to talk about flow management ahead of next summer ☀️✈️ at the annual Flow Management Positions ( ) Exchange.

Strong 💪 collaboration with all ops actors is key to preparing for busy summer traffic, & this year's event saw the EUROCONTROL host 160+ operational experts from & 35+ air navigation service providers ( ).

A great chance to have dynamic breakout discussions on:

✅ Capacity & weather-based ops – Reviewing current procedures & defining the way forward to ensure for Summer 2026 ☀️✈️
✅ Critical events management – Strengthening cooperation 🤝 through local & network crisis ⚡️scenario reviews
✅ Airports in the network – Sharing insights to improve collaboration 🤝 across stakeholders
✅ Procedures & practices – Exchanging on practices and reviewing operational procedures
✅ Innovation to support the network – Exploring new ops solutions & concepts.

🙏A big thank you to all participants for their constructive contributions as we look to build a safe & more efficient summer 2026.

17/12/2025

🚩✈️ EUROCONTROL's digital programme reaches its next milestone: successful delivery of its Wave 2.2 release, an upgraded version of , our crisis management tool, & extended access to EUROCONTROL's Airport (TWR) application for tower supervisors & ATCOs.

- integrated Network Management - is a programme built around a secure, data-driven, cloud-first platform for future network evolution in line with the Agency's new strategy. It envisages the renewal of all the NM's main operational systems through a series of technical releases.

✅ EVITA now features a modern interface for an improved user experience and integrates ash concentration data from the European Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres in London and Toulouse 🌋.

👉 The new EVITA tool is integrated into 's Digital Platform, & complies with the EU's Common Project One (CP1) regulation, which as part of the deployment framework, sets out mandatory functionalities that must be implemented across Europe to modernise and harmonise air traffic systems by the end of 2025.

✅ NM User Interface (NMUI Airport (TWR) extension now provides tower supervisors & with early access for familiarisation purposes to a single interface that will enable them to send data to the EUROCONTROL Network Manager ( ) and receive real-time flight information, boosting situational awareness ✈️. This release builds on last month's Wave 2.1, which opened NMUI access to operators.

🌐 Read more here https://www.eurocontrol.int/news/eurocontrol-advances-inm-digital-transformation-inm-wave-22-crisis-tool-upgrade-and-airport?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=EUROCONTROL

14/12/2025

✈️Coming up in 2026: Flight Dispatcher Days, the EUROCONTROL Network Manager's event dedicated to 🗺️flight dispatchers and flight-planning professionals operating within the 🌍Network Manager (NM) area of operations.

The 2026 edition of EUROCONTROL Flight Dispatcher Days will take place on 🗓️17-18 March 2026 at EUROCONTROL Brussels HQ. Designed to foster 📚knowledge and best-practice sharing, the two-day event will bring together airline operations experts and NM specialists to exchange insights, explore innovative solutions, and discuss strategies for improving operational efficiency.

Big 🙏thank you to Airlines for Europe (A4E), the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the European Regions Airline Association (ERA), the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), the International Federation of Airline Dispatchers Associations (IFALDA), and the European Federation of Airline Dispatchers Associations (EUFALDA) for their support to the event.

✅Interested to join? Show your interest and pre-register at the link below by 5 January 2026. Final confirmations will follow the selection process (late January 2026).

👉 https://www.eurocontrol.int/event/flight-dispatcher-days-2026?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=EUROCONTROL

13/12/2025

A ✈️ Operational Excellence Programme ( ) workshop on Advanced Flexible Use of Airspace (AFUA) Application, hosted in Zagreb 🇭🇷 by Croatia Control this month, brought together champion practitioners to share their insights. 🌐

✈️ Croatia Control showcased its latest innovations, including successful trials integrating remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) operations by States into non-segregated airspace 🛩️—a major milestone toward harmonising civil and military operations for safer, more efficient skies. ✅
ROMATSA 🇷🇴 presented its experience in reorganising national airspace to meet growing military demands. By leveraging modular solutions and flexible airspace scenarios 🔄, they achieved a balance between civil and military interests ⚖️.

✨ A highlight of the event was the visit to the Zagreb Area Control Centre (ACC) 🏢, where participants explored Croatia Control's advanced airspace management tools 🛠️ and gained a first-hand look at their latest UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) developments 🚁.

🙏Thank you to all participants for the collaborative spirit and knowledge exchange ! It has reaffirmed to all of us the importance of innovation and partnership in driving operational excellence across Europe.

11/12/2025

🎧Listen to our new episode with Enrico Parini, the new Director of European Affairs at CANSO Europe, the voice of the European air traffic management industry.

🔍 Representing 36 air navigation service providers ( ), Enrico shares CANSO's perspective on safeguarding the skies while keeping innovation moving forward & gives insights on topics such as:

🤝 the value of information-sharing among aviation experts as looks to tackle shared challenges created by recent geopolitical developments such as GNSS vulnerabilities

📡 the need for a resilient infrastructure alongside modernisation and digitalisation efforts

💻 dealing with the increasing pressure from cyberthreats in recent years, targeting all aviation actors including ANSPs.

🎧 Tune in on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Podbean to listen to the full podcast👉 https://www.eurocontrol.int/audio/talking-cansos-enrico-parini?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=EUROCONTROL

09/12/2025

✈️🌱 Strong collaboration with will bring greater transparency to emission measurement across all flight phases.

Together 🤝 we have successfully validated a robust, data-driven methodology to calculate gate-to-gate CO₂ emissions using real fuel burn data.
This is a concrete step forward in tracking progress towards greater aviation sustainability. ✈️🌱

👉 Building on EUROCONTROL's existing gate-to-gate model, developed with the support of the independent Performance Review Commission ( ) and our Aviation Intelligence Unit ( ) dashboard, this collaboration – supported by EASA's Data4Safety platform & with valuable input from Vueling Airlines – confirms the method's strong accuracy & highlights areas for further refinement.

This work showcases the value of our strengthened cooperation 🤝 with EASA, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, under our renewed Memorandum of Cooperation.

🚀 When we align expertise, operational data & regulatory insight the sky is the limit in terms of what can be achieved!

For more info & to download the report, go to 👇
https://www.eurocontrol.int/news/easa-and-eurocontrol-publish-joint-report-assessment-gate-gate-co2-emissions?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=EUROCONTROL

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