FAB CE News

A major milestone along the path to harmonising assessment for Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel (ATSEP) among all seven FAB CE air navigation service providers (ANSPs) was reached in December 2019 with finalising the standardised questionnaire (and the corresponding rules, “QUASAR Terms of Use”) covering all phases and domains of ATSEP Initial Training.

Valerie Hackl, Chair of the FAB CE Chief Executive Officer Committee (CEOC) has written to Eurocontrol Director General Eamonn Brennan to outline the actions to be taken by FAB CE air navigation service providers (ANSPs) in support of the Network Manager’s (NM) European Airspace Architecture Study (EAAS) airspace re-configuration programme Transition Plan.

Traffic flows during 2019 in the FAB CE area have demonstrated a high degree of volatility, according to Eurocontrol STATFOR (Statistics and Forecast Service) figures, with some States recording annual increases of more than 10% in overflight traffic demand, while others have seen a decline.

Just after midnight on December 4, 2019 Bosnia and Herzegovina Air Navigation Services Agency (BHANSA) took control of air traffic in the entire airspace of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The completion of the SEE FRA project (South East Europe Free Route Airspace) on November 7, 2019 has opened up 24/7 cross border free route operations across the airspace of Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.

The FAB CE Steering Committee (FABSC) met at the end of 2019 to review progress on some of the major technical and operational partnership programmes being undertaken by FAB CE air navigation services providers (ANSPs).