GLOBAL ATM COMMUNITY ASKED TO PREPARE REFORMS IN INTEGRATED HOLISTIC BLOCKS
September 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD'S air traffic control regulators have been asked to development their systems in a more comprehensive, controlled and integrated manner, using 'block upgrade' models created by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
At a conference staged at ICAO's Montreal, Canada, headquarters, its secretary general Raymond Benjamin said predicted civil aviation traffic growth would "strain...a system already stretched to its limits." He told a Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium that to keep ahead of capacity needs, ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.