Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea - Aena.es

The strategic changes addressed in 2009, defi ned in the
ATM action plan, are the following:
In the organization and management of the airspace:
the latter will be structured and managed
regardless of internal and external organizational
borders, The ATC sectors will be designed according
to demands in air traffi c fl ows, without the
organizational borders entailing limitations in the
attainment of the best solutions.
The route design and network will be optimized:
the network of routes will be designed according
to users’ preferences, and procedures for
facilitating alternatives will also be developed.
ATC will be optimized through the development
and dynamic application of ATC sector-position
confi gurations in response to different operating
scenarios.
General information
Air navigation
Availability of use of the entire airspace: the airspace
will be treated as a continuous resource available
to all users.
It is important to highlight that 95,5% of the ATM
2009 action plan was accomplished.
TRAFFIC
In the year 2009 a total number of 1,879,810 fl ights
were managed by the Directorate of Air Navigation,
which represents an 8,99% decline from the
2,065,413 during 2008.
The following tables show the trend in operations in
Spain throughout the year 2009 and the downturn
with respect to the traffi c recorded in 2008:
2009 2008 %09 vs, %08
FIR SPAIN 1,879,810 2,065,413 -8,99%
FIR PENINSULA 1,756,942 1,925,178 -8,74%
FIR/ACC CANARIES 282,495 326,320 -13,43%
2,4 SINGLE EUROPEAN SKY:
SES (SINGLE EUROPEAN SKY) –
FUNCTIONAL BLOCK OF AIRSPACE
(FAB) SPAIN-PORTUGAL
The mission of the Single European Sky initiative is to
restructure the management of air traffi c in Europe by
establishing a standardized regulatory framework in
response to the system’s current shortcomings and to
meet future needs, This includes the overall improvement
in performance of the European air navigation
system to afford added value to the air transport chain.
FAB (Functional Airspace Block) Portugal-
Spain
The volumes of airspace in which Air Navigation provides
services are designed without regard to national
or organizational borders, to attend to operational requirements.
During 2008, in parallel to the requisites established by
the European Single Sky initiative, Aena and NAV Portugal
laid down the bases for increasing collaboration in
different technical areas, especially in the framework of
the processes of constituting functional airspace blocks
(FAB), This process led to the signature, on March 17th,
2009, of the agreement of understanding between the
service providers and aeronautical authorities of Spain
and Portugal, for the constitution of the future functional
airspace block of south-western Europe (SW-FAB).
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