Aviation leaders meet in Maastricht to mark 50 years of the EUROCONTROL Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre
Half a century of cross-border cooperation
50 years ago the EUROCONTROL Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre began operations, with its four founding States agreeing to...
EUROCONTROL and ACI EUROPE sign Memorandum of Understanding for enhanced co-operation to aviation’s sustainable future
Eamonn Brennan, Director General of EUROCONTROL, and Olivier Jankovec, Director General of ACI EUROPE, have today signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding to enhance...
[Eurocontrol] Charting the European Aviation recovery: 2021 COVID-19 impacts and 2022 outlook
2021 was the year aviation hoped to get back on its feet after the catastrophic pandemic impacts of 2020. This Think Paper uses Eurocontrol's...
Flights are back to 75% of 2019 levels, but for passengers the choice of flights to their destination remains low
EUROCONTROL tracks the connectivity available to passengers through a set of connectivity indicators. These are people-focused, covering the whole journey, door-to-door: including travel to...
Eurocontrol: taxi times have been cut in most airports this summer, but very little at Brussels where it was already low
Eurocontrol publishes seasonal data on taxi times to help airlines develop their schedules and plan their operationsThe latest data show that, even as traffic...
Brussels South Charleroi Airport introduces Collaborative Environmental Management (CEM)
Brussels South Charleroi Airport, the SOWAER, Eurocontrol, skeyes, SABCA, Ryanair, TUI fly and Air Corsica have today signed a collaborative agreement designed to reduce...
Aircraft keep flying higher, creating extra airspace capacity and burning less fuel, saving 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year
In their flight plans, aircraft request to cruise at an altitude (‘flight level’) that’s most efficient for them, so that they burn less fuel....
New EUROCONTROL 2021-2027 forecast expects traffic recovery to 2019 levels by the end of 2023
Recovery to the 2019 number of flights in Europe could occur as early as 2023, according to a new forecast issued by EUROCONTROL. This...
All civil and military air traffic controllers to use the same system to manage Belgian airspace
EUROCONTROL’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC), the Belgian Ministry of Defence and the Belgian air navigation service provider skeyes are jointly developing a...
Air traffic controllers, airlines and Eurocontrol trial initiative to address trajectory inefficiency
Partners trial enhanced customer services with airlines
Several air navigation service providers, airlines and the Eurocontrol Network Manager have teamed up to trial a unique...
Air traffic recovery this summer to 70% of 2019 flights conceals wide variations, says Eurocontrol
In August, flights were back to 71% of 2019 levels across Europe. This average, however, conceals a wide variation between countries and also between...
EUROCONTROL breaks ground for the construction of a new operations centre in Brussels
Construction work on the new EUROCONTROL Network Manager's operations centre in Brussels has officially commenced with a ‘breaking ground’ event attended today by EUROCONTROL...
New Eurocontrol four-year forecast finds air traffic not expected to reach 2019 levels until 2024 at earliest
EUROCONTROL has issued a new forecast looking at the possible evolution of domestic and international air traffic in Europe over the coming four years...
In 2020 the average flight was shorter and performed by smaller aircraft, according to Eurocontrol
The average flight in 2020 was 7.6% shorter than 2019, but the average flight weight fluctuated from month to month quite dramatically compared with...
EUROCONTROL MUAC optimises airspace sectors to draw full benefit from free route airspace
On the AIRAC date 25 March 2021, EUROCONTROL’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) successfully implemented a major overhaul of its airspace sector layout,...
The cost of air traffic management in Europe became disconnected from traffic around 2008, says Eurocontrol
National air traffic management (ATM) organisations need to provide sufficient capacity in their respective airspace so that growing traffic can be handled safely. To...
Europe’s long-haul high-frequency network has been cut by two-thirds as a result of Covid, says Eurocontrol
By February 2020, COVID-19 had already begun to affect the long-haul network out of Europe, in particular some routes to China. So we need...
All-cargo flights continue to have 3-4 times their normal market share in Europe, boosted by passenger aircraft flown as cargo
More than half of air cargo – freight and mail – is carried in dedicated “all-cargo” freighter aircraft and the rest in the holds...
New EUROCONTROL traffic scenarios factor in latest COVID impacts on European aviation
EUROCONTROL has issued a new set of Traffic Scenarios for the period up to June 2021. Air traffic throughout Europe is expected to be...
Various stakeholders and the EUROCONTROL Network Manager outline plans to drive the digitalisation of European ATM
Leading airspace users, airports, air navigation service providers and the EUROCONTROL Network Manager outline plans to drive the modernisation and digitalisation of European ATM
An...