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SANS achieves Level 2 accreditation in CANSO’s GreenATM Programme
Enhanced GreenATM website puts participants and resources centre stage
Global Air Traffic Management community joins forces to rethink how we orchestrate change
CANSO statement – European ANSPs continue to improve summer performance
EuroAsia air navigation leaders meet in Uzbekistan
Sri Lanka and Vietnam join regional aviation safety data and information sharing initiative
ENAIRE and the Official College of Pilots share knowledge and experience to further strengthen aviation safety
Intersoft Electronics APAC signs Strategic Representative Agreement with Daitron to expand into Japan’s aviation and defense markets
BHANSA responds promptly to security challenges posed by the growth of drone traffic
FREQUENTIS and DSNA go live with new voice system at Brest Area Control Centre, France
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True North: Rethinking one of aviation’s oldest assumptions
For more than a century, aviation has relied on Magnetic North as its operational reference. Yet as air traffic management evolves towards a digitally connected, highly automated, trajectory-based future, an important question has emerged: Is Magnetic North still the right …
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The next frontier of flight
Andrew Thurling, Co-Chair, Aviation Working Group, HAPS Alliance, and Nicki Harricharan, Operations Programme Manager, CANSO, take a look at how to safely scale the opportunities presented by High Altitude Platform Systems. As aviation enters an era of unprecedented transformation, the …
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The CANSO ATM Podcast – Meet Micilia Albertus-Verboom, CANSO’s Person of the Year
At Airspace World 2026, Micilia Albertus-Verboom, Director General DC-ANSP, was named CANSO’s first Person of the Year at the Seamless Skies Awards. In this latest edition of the CANSO ATM Podcast, available exclusively to CANSO Connect users before it goes …
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The CANSO ATM Podcast – Meet Andrea Sack – CANSO’s new Senior Vice President Global Operations
In this latest episode of the CANSO ATM Podcast we talk to Andrea Sack. Andrea joined CANSO on 1 June as its new Senior Vice President, Global Operations. As such she is responsible for the work of CANSO’s Programmes’ teams, …
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The CANSO ATM Podcast Episode 25 – Inside VATM’s Digital Airspace Transformation
ICAO has set a hard deadline: by 2034, every country must retire its old paper-style flight plans for fully digital data exchange. In this episode, we sit down with Nguyen Manh Tung, Director of the CNS Department at VATM, Vietnam’s …
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Building the controllers of the next decade: ENAIRE’s Air Traffic Controller recruitment programme
Last year, CANSO and I talked about how ENAIRE gets ready for the busy European summer travel season. One idea came up again and again: capacity is built long before summer arrives. And the most important part of that capacity …