FAB CE News

New procedures help optimise air traffic management over the Alps in adverse weather conditions

Weather conditions cannot be changed but the consequences can be managed more effectively. Working together and across borders, experts from numerous control centres worked on a set of procedures to deal with adverse weather conditions in the Alps and the impact on Munich Airport.

On the initiative of FAB CE, 25 representatives from Ministries of Transport, National Supervisory Agencies and Air Navigation Service Providers representing BALTIC FAB, BLUE MED FAB, DANUBE FAB, FAB CE, FABEC and South-West FAB met in Sibenik, Croatia, on September 21, to discuss current and upcoming challenges of European aviation.

FAB CE hosted the 3rd InterFAB Communications Workshop, which took place in Vienna in the first week of September.  Participants from FABs all across Europe discussed ways of how to make FABs more accessible to the public.

Planning and implementing FAB CE common operational and procurement programmes should move ahead more swiftly in the future.

FAB CE technical experts have successfully concluded an important common procurement programme, harmonising equipment procurement measures and reducing costs for all involved.

Chief executives of FAB CE’s seven air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and their technical experts have given their go-ahead for the NAVAID optimisation project which will improve interoperability and data-sharing through the optimisation of navigational aid (NAVAID) infrastructure, reducing duplication and unnecessary complexity.