Real-time Flight Data Exchange Between Eurocontrol, UAE Goes Live
Addtime：2018-06-08 16:55
Eurocontrol and the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) have begun exchanging real-time flight data, as part of a cooperation agreement signed in October last year.
The agreement was signed with the aim of addressing a lack of predictability of traffic between Europe and the Middle East. It covers not only the exchange of real-time flight data, but also updated flight plan and airport departure planning information.
Eurocontrol DG Frank Brenner said: "Real-time updates of departure times and other trajectory information is now being exchanged between the operational systems of the Eurocontrol Network Manager and the UAE main air traffic control center on the major traffic flows between Europe and the UAE. This is a significant contributor to realize the Global Air Traffic Flow Management Concept, where the different parts of the world connect and exchange these very important data."
About 400 flights a day operate between the two regions with a further 150-200 overflights, and traffic is growing 3.6% a year.
Eurocontrol's director-network manager Joe Sultana said: "The full implementation of this cooperation agreement will bring substantial benefits to the predictability of these traffic flows as all ATM actors will have much more accurate information on these flights. ATM predictability is a major enabler of capacity and the 64 air traffic control centers in Europe as well as European airports will directly benefit from the receipt of this updated trajectory information."
This data exchange is a central pillar of the Collaborative Global ATFM concept being promoted by Eurocontrol in support of the ICAO Global Air Navigation plan, which requires global interoperability of information and the seamless management of major traffic flows across ATM regions.
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