1st CANSO Caribbean & Latin American ANSP Conference

CANSO, the Global Voice of ATM, has reported that its first conference for Caribbean and Latin American ANSPs has been a significant advance in the region for the organisation.

The event, held in Curacao and hosted by Netherlands Antilles Air Traffic Control (NAATC) attracted more than 100 delegates from across the Caribbean, Central and South America, as well as representatives from the aviation industry world-wide. The response to the debates and workshops was strong and there was overwhelming support to return for a second conference in 2010.

2nd CANSO Middle East Safety & Business Transformation Seminar

held on 1-2 November 2009 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 

CANSO Calls for an 'Aviation Industry Council' at ACI World Annual General Assembly (3 November 2009)
Speaking at the ACI World Annual General Assembly, CANSO Secretary General Alexander ter Kuile explained that CANSO had benefitted from building strong relationships with its customers, the airlines.

He invited airports to join an ‘aviation industry council’ to “push for collaborative strategic thinking at every level of our industry – nationally, regionally and globally.” Only when the aviation system is at the heart of decision-making, he argued, “will we know that the future of our industry, and the integrity of our system, is secure.”

CANSO at the McGill Institute of Air & Space Law Conference on Aviation Liability & Insurance (30 October 2009)
CANSO Director ICAO Affairs, Eugene Hoeven spoke to the McGill Institute of Air & Space Law Conference on Aviation Liability & Insurance.

CANSO at ICAO Global Air Traffic Management Forum on Civil-Military Cooperation (19 October 2009)

CANSO Secretary General Alexander ter Kuile, speaking during the opening session of the event, outlined CANSO’s views on why Civil-Military cooperation was so essential, and the foundations on which successful cooperation should be built.

He started by explaining that the fragmentation of the world’s airspace was holding back the capacity and efficiency of global aviation, and that improved Civil-Military cooperation was a crucial element in addressing the problem.

CANSO 13th CEO Conference (22 June 2009)
Watch videos taken at CANSO's 13th CEO Conference, including sessions on 'The Way Ahead - Reflections and Solutions on the Financial Crisis', 'Debate: Cost Recovery is Dead', 'Taking Operational Responsibility - Improving ATM Performance', and Guest Speaker, Rod Machado.

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CANSO Presentation to the Council of ICAO (20 May 2009)
CANSO Secretary General Alexander ter Kuile has made a private presentation to the Council of ICAO at the invitation of its President Mr. Roberto Kobeh González. Mr. Ter Kuile took the opportunity to remind the Council that good policies lead to a high-performance ANS sector and that the effectiveness of any policy must be tested to ensure it drives higher standards.

CANSO at the 4th Global Environment Summit (31 March 2009)

Speaking in the opening session of the Summit, CANSO Secretary General Alexander ter Kuile called for an honest appraisal on the progress made since the Industry Declaration on Climate Change and warned that “the measure of our success is not in making Declarations”, but in how such declarations are implemented.

Ter Kuile went on to give a summary of CANSO’s Environmental Efficiency Goals to 2050. These targets, published in March and previously made available to the ICAO GIACC committee, call for airspace to be 96% efficient by 2050, a rise of around 4% from today, though considerable regional variations exist within the global target.

Alexander ter Kuile also spoke of CANSO's support for Performance-Based Naviagion (PBN).

CANSO at ATC Global 2009 (18 March 2009)

CANSO Secretary General Alexander ter Kuile addressed the economic crisis at ATC Global, explaining that CANSO Members are in "full crisis action mode, seeking cost savings wherever possible". Ter Kuile went on to note that the crisis presents a unique opportunity to put forward a coherent, united vision of the future air navigation system, and called for an in-depth debate on some fundamental aviation principles.