FAB CE News

FAB CE air navigation service providers (ANSPs) are urging other European air traffic management (ATM) stakeholders to continue with the revenue and risk-sharing mechanism agreed for reporting period three (RP3) – suitably amended to take account of revenue losses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Airline traffic levels in the seven FAB CE States were on average close to 70% lower between March 1 2021 and March 1 2019 according to the latest figures from Eurocontrol, making this area of Europe the hardest hit, in terms of aviation activity, of any region in the continent.

FAB CE air navigation service providers (ANSPs), neighbouring ANSPs and the Network Manager NM) held an on-line meeting at the start of December 2020 to discuss further airspace restructuring proposals, focusing on extending free route airspace (FRA) procedures in and around the FAB CE area. 

“Regular dialogue between social partners and management is essential for a successful functional airspace bloc but in a time of crisis social dialogue is even more important,” said Mario Kunovec-Varga, Head of Strategy, Development and International Relations of CroatiaControl, and FAB CE CEO Committee (CEOC) Chairman representative at the FAB CE social dialogue meeting held on 16 December 2020.

We talked to Vlado Bagarić, Chair of the FAB CE Chief Executive Officer Committee:
“The main role of FABs in the future will be connected to expanding the results accomplished so far”, says the Director General at Croatia Control.

FAB CE air navigation service providers (ANSPs) have taken several strategic and tactical measures to flexibly increase capacity to support airline customers in a future recovery while raising the overall en-route capacity of FAB CE to meet future demand.