Skyguide, DFS and DSNA to conduct feasibility study for new joint
control centre
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - Geneva, 17 November 2009. The national aviation authorities ofFrance, Germany and Switzerland have commissioned their respectiveair navigation service providers - skyguide, DFS and DSNA - toconduct a feasibility study on establishing a joint control centre inthe French/German/Swiss border region. Its findings should beavailable this time next year. For skyguide, the study will go someway towards resolving the issue of future operating locations.Harmonising Europe's airspaceThe new feasibility study is closely connected with the drive by theEuropean Union to create a "Single European Sky" (SES). The SESinitiative is intended to harmonise the continent's air trafficmanagement system to raise its efficiency. This can only be done,however, by amalgamating the present airspace areas into largerinterlinked blocks. Under these endeavours, Swiss airspace shouldbecome part of "Functional Airspace Block Europe Central" (FABEC).The first foundations were laid here in November 2008, whenrepresentatives of the civil and military aviation authorities ofBelgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerlandsigned a joint declaration of intent.One of six possible optionsThe planned harmonisation of Europe's airspace has prompted skyguideto investigate various possible organisational options over the pastfew months for the company's further development. In November 2008,skyguide presented six such options, four of national and two ofinternational dimensions. One of the latter is to create a newcontrol centre in the French/German/Swiss border region which wouldbe jointly operated together with France and Germany's air navigationservice providers, the Direction des Services de la NavigationAérienne (DSNA) and Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS). This option nowneeds to be analysed in more detail together with the projectedpartners, to enable it to be compared with the other five scenarios:the information currently available here does not provide an adequatefoundation for any decision on the future organisation of the controlcentres needed to manage Switzerland's airspace.Close collaboration between companies and authoritiesIn view of this, the aviation authorities of the three countriesconcerned have commissioned skyguide, DFS and DSNA to analyse, in theform of an extensive feasibility study, the option of establishingsuch a joint control centre. The study will look in detail at theorganisational, institutional, operational, technical, financial andsocial aspects of this joint-centre approach, and will report back ina year with its findings. The commissioning of the study does notimply that any decision has already been taken to establish such acentre; but the study's findings should provide a firmer foundationfor the subsequent decision-making process.skyguideswiss air navigation services ltd.media relationsCH-1215 Geneva 15Contact:phone: +41 22 417 4008email: presse(at)skyguide.chinternet: www.skyguide.chSkyguide is responsible for providing air navigation services withinSwiss airspace and in the airspace of certain adjoining regions inneighbouring countries. The company guides the civil and militaryaircraft entrusted to its care - around 3 400 flights a day or 1.24million a year - through some of the busiest and most complexairspace in Europe. Skyguide is a non-profit limited company whichhas its head office in Geneva. The majority of its shares are held bythe Swiss Confederation. The company generates annual operatingrevenue of over CHF 372 million and employs some 1 400 people at 14locations in Switzerland. Skyguide is also a member, together withits partner organisations in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg andthe Netherlands, of the FABEC initiative to create a commonfunctional airspace block that will bring greater efficiency toCentral Europe's air traffic management services and activities.The media release can be downloaded from the following link:http://hugin.info/134388/R/1355340/328934.pdfThis announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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