ATAG Corporate brochure

Air transport safety, efficiency and growth driven by market demand
Joint cooperation and action
"With effective plans and concepts in hand, we shall work together to ensure that
the skies of the future are safe and remain unencumbered for a long time to come."
Philippe Rochat, Executive Director, ATAG
With ICAO’s ATM Operational Concept,
Global Air Navigation Plan, and IATA’s
ATM Implementation Roadmap in-place,
we now have the potential to implement
a truly global airspace environment to
achieve the industry’s vision of One Sky…
global ATM.
This is a unique global challenge, as it
calls on governments and industry to work
together as partners. It means thinking
in international rather than in local or
indeed regional terms. And it also means
addressing the issue of State sovereignty
over airspace in a collaborative way, and
putting in place a series of measures that
will effectively remove existing "borders"
in the sky.
This transition is necessary worldwide,
but it should take advantage of the full
potential of existing ATM capacity
improvement methods, such as RVSM,
RNP and RNAV and the capability of
sophisticated, modern aircraft. The
successful experiences in Asia, Europe
and South America should encourage
other regions to follow as soon as
possible. ICAO provisions and global
best practices must be followed.
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Industry and government efforts and
commitments
The implementation of ATM_cns requires
governments to:
reconsider the organisation of their
respective airspace, to improve the
collaboration between civil and military
users and to accept the creation of
functional blocks of airspace beyond
national borders;
recognise the need for air navigation
service providers’ autonomy and
supranational partnerships, while
supervising their monopolistic activities;
recognise safety, efficiency and
capacity as the drivers for change and
support ICAO’s ATM Operational
Concept and Global Air Navigation
Plan; and
ensure that globally-harmonised,
interoperable, compatible and
cost-beneficial solutions are
implemented in a timely manner,
sheltered from purely political
considerations.
This implementation requires the air
transport industry to:
work together and with governments
to ensure that solutions are driven by
airspace user requirements;
agree on a business-driven relationship
between ANS providers and users,
based on commercial arrangements
and global industry best practices for
the provision of safe and high quality
services;
ensure that aircraft are appropriately
equipped to take full advantage of ANS
providers’ services; and
support ICAO’s work while insisting on
the timely implementation of global and
cost-effective solutions irrespective of
national or regional considerations.
To achieve this, air transport industry
stakeholders and governments must
work together. States must take the
right implementation decisions that will
influence and drive civil aviation’s safety,
efficiency and capacity – thereby enabling
air transport’s sustainable growth and
improved services in the future.