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Understanding the importance of air traffic management


“With aviation growing globally at between 4 and 7% annually – which means doubling every ten years – and with growth not coming all from aircraft like the Airbus A380, pressure on the ATM system is going to increase,” said Sir Tim Clark, Chief Executive Officer of Emirates, at the opening conference session. This will put the spotlight on governments to understand the importance of ATM in their overall growth plans so they can ensure air navigation service providers work with their neighbours to develop systems and procedures to allow for future growth.
There will be an additional 1.7 billion in Asia by 2030, according to Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports and one of the biggest constraints will be the ATM system. Aviation contributes around a quarter of the entire income to Dubai and this proportion will grow over the coming years.
Asia is the fastest growing aviation market in the world “but we are lagging behind,” according to Martin Eran-Tasker, Technical Director of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines. “There is a $3 billion bill for a Seamless Asian Sky and challenges of diversity and different capabilities of the region. Unless we come together we won’t be able to we need to do for performance based navigation (PBN) harmonisation, which means aircraft are not using half their capabilities.”
“I can’t see a single airspace in this region but we need to work closely with each other at State level,” said Ismaeil Mohammed Al Blooshi, Assistant Director-General, Aviation Safety Affairs, UAE General Civil Aviation Authority. “There is a need to support other States where civil aviation development is not the first priority…. We cannot solve today’s problems with yesterday’s solutions and we need to start collaborating early.”
“There is a degree of conservativeness among some service providers,” said Sir Tim Clark. “We think that by using steeper angles of approach, landing long and using little thrust we can certainly mitigate many noise issues. We have the ability to make 5% angle of approaches with these aircraft with very few adaptions and have successfully trialled these on our simulators.”
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