POOR AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE IN AFGHANISTAN DISCUSSED BY ICAO
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AIR traffic is moving inefficiency over the strategic air space controlled by Afghanistan, an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) meeting has heard. Mohamed Khonji, ICAO regional director Middle East warned an air traffic flow management task force meeting in Cairo that: "Despite the continued and valued efforts made by Afghanistan to accommodate the requirements of civil traffic the limited availability of ATS routes and flight levels across the Kabul FIR continues to remain as a 'bottleneck' in the civil traffic flows." ...
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