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EUROCONTROL and airports
Journal of Airport Management,
9
(3),
270-276
(2015)
Abstract
Air traffic in Europe is starting to grow again. It can, however, be expected that this growth will be constrained by the difficulties in expanding airports and the restrictions on their operating hours. There is a need both to make the most of what there is and to address the environmental concerns that are constraining airports. EUROCONTROL, the pan-European intergovernmental ATM organisation, is involved in a range of initiatives such as airport collaborative decision making, airspace planning, wake vortices, collaborative environmental management and environmental modelling. This paper considers these and, in particular, looks at how airports are becoming more interconnected, both with each other and with the network as a whole, providing more predictability and concrete performance improvements.
Keywords: air traffic management; Network Manager; performance improvements; collaboration; challenges of growth; EUROCONTROL; Single European Sky; SESAR
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Author's Biography
Frank Brenner was appointed Director General of EUROCONTROL in January 2013. Before arriving at EUROCONTROL as Deputy Director General in November 2012, Frank was general manager operations for FABEC, the largest of the new Functional Airspace Blocks covering Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland. He was also vice chairman of EUROCONTROL’s Performance Review Commission and a member of the performance review body. Prior to joining EUROCONTROL, Frank spent most of his career with the German air navigation service provider, DFS (and its precursor organisation, BFS). Following military service in an air defence unit and taking his degree in administrative science, he trained as an air traffic controller. After working first as a controller for some years, then as an expert in the operations department, Frank became head of ATM operations in 1993, focusing on developing civil and military control procedures, and capacity analysis for airspace sectors and international airports. From 1996–1997 Frank spent a period with the FAA in Washington, DC, before returning to become head of ATS operations. From 2000 to 2006 he was director of operations at the business unit for aeronautical data management at DFS headquarters, during which time he was involved in the creation of the European aeronautical services database (EAD) and the creation of a central air traffic services reporting office (ARO) service centre that consolidated 17 local AROs. From 2006 to 2011 Frank held the position of director of DFS’s control centre business unit, responsible for the four DFS control centres serving en route and approach in Germany, controlling approximately 3 million civil and military flights. During this time he also chaired the DFS crisis cell set up to coordinate activities in Germany in 2010 following the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull.
