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Advancing Automation for Future Skies: CATS Work Area 5 gets to work

Higher levels of automation are coming to air traffic management, some of it AI-enabled, most of it not. Traffic is growing, operations are getting more complex, and new airspace users are arriving. ANSPs will increasingly need automation to keep pace, …

05/10/2026

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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 …

28/09/2026

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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 …

22/09/2026

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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 …

18/09/2026

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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, …

11/09/2026

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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 …

07/09/2026

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