When cost-effectiveness puts high demands on airport operations, Saab’s Remote Tower is exactly what airports need in order to stay competitive and to reduce cost.
Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) worldwide are trying to reduce the cost of providing ATS without affecting safety or operational availability. Remote Towers will not only help this happen but it will also introduce a never before seen level of flexibility that allows service levels to be enhanced.
This may result in smaller airports remaining open for longer or even keeping some regional airports open that otherwise would have been forced to close due to high costs. At some locations, it has been shown that the Remote Tower Regional Airport Solution can enable ANSPs to increase efficiency by up to 60%.
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The Latest on: Air Traffic Control
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The Latest on: Air Traffic Control
- London City Airport switches to digital air traffic controlon May 1, 2021 at 1:52 am
London City will become the first major airport in the world to use a remote digital air control tower and planes will be directed by staff over 100 kilometres away. The set up has 14 cameras which ...
- Air Traffic Control (ATC) Market 2021 is estimated to clock a modest CAGR of 2.5% during the forecast period 2021-2026 With Top Countries Dataon April 30, 2021 at 10:58 pm
Market 2021 is estimated to clock a modest CAGR of 2.5% during the forecast period 2021-2026 With Top Countries Data "Global Air Traffic Control (ATC) market size is projected to reach USD 4328 ...
- London City becomes first major airport with remote air traffic controlon April 30, 2021 at 4:55 am
After two years of testing revolutionary new systems, London City has become the first major airport in Britain without a staffed air-traffic control tower. Pilots using the Docklands airport in east ...
- Remote Air Traffic Control Begins at London City Airporton April 30, 2021 at 4:45 am
London City is the largest international airport where landings and takeoffs are controlled remotely, in this case from a facility 72 miles away.
- London City is the first major airport to control air traffic via a digital toweron April 30, 2021 at 3:16 am
Tech is firmly ingrained in air travel. From biometric boarding gates to parallel reality displays that beam custom messages, the process of catching a flight has changed dramatically in the past ...
- The beginning of the end for air traffic control towers? London City airport ditches its 30-year-old tower in favour of a new mast fitted with high-definition cameras monitored ...on April 30, 2021 at 2:55 am
The 50metre (164ft) tall mast features 14 HD cameras which give a full 360° view of the airfield and the footage is beamed in real-time to a control room 70 miles away.
- London City becomes first major airport to control air traffic remotelyon April 29, 2021 at 8:38 pm
The move is a change for an industry where planes are generally instructed to take off and land by operators based in the airport.
- Hail, high winds force air traffic controllers to evacuate from control toweron April 29, 2021 at 7:20 pm
High winds and hail forced air traffic controllers to evacuate an air traffic control tower at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The forced evacuation happened on April 25 just after 8 ...
- NAMA trains, certifies 24 new air traffic controllerson April 29, 2021 at 5:00 pm
Kayode Oyero Published 26 April 2021The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency has obtained licences for 24 newly recruited air traffic control officers from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Organisation ...
- London City launches remote air traffic control as Highlands and Islands airports controversy rumbles onon April 29, 2021 at 4:01 pm
Flights taking off and landing at London City Airport (LCA) are now controlled by a remote digital air traffic control tower in a sign of what is to come, under current plans, in the Highlands and ...
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