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The French ATM Strategy STRATEGIC PLAN TO MODERNIZE THE FRENCH AIRSPACE AND AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT The French ATM Strategy DOCUMENT CONTROL Version 1.0 Date 16/04/2019 Authors IATA and DSNA Reviewed by DGAC and FNAM (the French Airline Association) Next steps Wider industry engagement and further refinement 2 The French ATM Strategy Foreword France is a global hub for air traffic. French air navigation services manage one of the largest and most dense areas of airspace in Europe, controlling more than 3 million flights, 60% of which are overflights. Added to this is the provision of air navigation services in the French overseas territories with more than 14 million square kilometers of airspace across the planet. The civil aviation sector is a key part of the French economy, representing 4.3% of GDP MAURICE GEORGES and supporting 1.16 million direct and indirect Air Navigation Service Director at DSNA jobs. The aerospace sector generates €90 billion in sales, including €49 billion in aircraft recent years due to ever-increasing traffic construction, making it one of the country’s levels and poor resilience. The European largest exporters. Aviation also plays a central Network Manager was forced to intervene role in positioning France as the world’s for the first time during the summer of leading tourist destination. France welcomed 2018, constraining the flow of traffic to 90 million visitors in 2018, a figure that is protect the efficiency of congested airspace. expected to exceed 100 million by 2020. This reinforces its role of a coordinator of the industry-wide Collaborative Decision In March 2019, concluding the French ministerial Making (CDM) framework, which is initiative « Les Assises du transport aérien », becoming essential to take full advantage Mrs Elisabeth Borne, Minister for Transport, of the capacity of European airspace and attached to the Ministre d’État, Minister accommodate future traffic demand. for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, presented the “National Strategy 2025 for Air Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) Transport” that clearly established the vision partners are fully engaged in the of a sustainable development of Air Transport modernization of the European airspace and connecting territories at local as well as global ATM system, driven by the Single European levels in a competitive manner provided that Sky (SES) initiative and Single European Sky it is environmentally acceptable by citizens. ATM Research (SESAR) deployment program. The transformation being carried out by SESAR Following this vision, the aviation sector is shall also be supplemented by the Airspace reliant on the performance and efficiency Architecture Study (AAS) that has delivered of the airspace and air traffic management a proposal for the future architecture of the (ATM) system. This performance shall European airspace to increase capacity and rely on proactive management of safety, resilience, in a long term perspective. taking into account the new cyberthreats, on focusing on all feasible means to DSNA, the French State ANSP, is a key reduce the environmental footprint of partner working closely with the airlines, aviation as regards noise and emissions, the Network Manager and SESAR to and on improving the quality of services tackle the environmental and economic to the airspace users and customers. challenges facing Europe’s airspace and above all to maintain the highest levels of Actually, the capacity performance of safety and security for all users of aviation European airspace has started to decline in in France and its overseas territories. 3 The French ATM Strategy The next period of economic regulation In the near term the recruitments in DSNA’s for European ANSPs (known as Reference en-route centers will start to deliver benefits Period 3) will have to support the necessary as from 2021 and will consequently allow investments, whether for technical the DSNA to take full benefit of the first modernization, productivity measures or deployment of 4-FLIGHT in the summer of 2022. the controlled increase in the recruitment of air traffic controllers as per the For the summers of 2019, 2020 and 2021, recommendations of the Senate Finance the challenge for DSNA and European Committee’s June 2018 report on the ANSPs will be to offer operational solutions modernization of air navigation in France. using the capability of existing SESAR outputs and enhanced collaboration with The continuation of the 4-FLIGHT/COFLIGHT the Network Manager to compensate for program (to upgrade DSNA’s core suite the structural lack of capacity, contain of ATM systems and tools) was secured in the growth of delays and guarantee the 2018 and shall allow the new systems to be highest level of safety and security. deployed from 2022, delivering performance improvements for customers and creating DSNA and IATA (the International Air the platform to introduce more advanced Transport Association) are cooperating SESAR outputs, in particular, cross-border on the development and implementation free route and new short to medium of the strategy outlined in this document term safety tools, at the core of future and its accompanying plans to support performance in highly dense airspace. the modernization of airspace and ATM in France and across Europe. Enhancing performance in Air Traffic Management, including its contribution to reducing environmental nuisance, has been an outstanding item during the Assises du Transport Aérien that took place in 2018 in France. Cooperation with airlines, a steady focus for DSNA, is in my view a key asset in order to ensure that the efforts of the stakeholders reach maximum efficiency. This concern can be found as well at European level in the Network Manager’s works and of the functional airspace block FABEC, to which France is party. MARC BOREL Air Transport Director The Air Transport Directorate supports the approach by DSNA and IATA set out in this permanent solutions that will emerge during French ATM Strategy that supports the the reference period 2020-2024 will contribute Performance plan 2020-2024 of FABEC. lowering these emissions per flight again. What is at stake for the next years is clearly getting the ATM capacity back to balancing DTA will assist the implementation of this with the air traffic demand, in France and Strategy, altogether through airspace more broadly through FABEC and Europe. management linking with the military The transitional measures currently applied authorities, through consulting on national for managing traffic flows are efficient to plans, through local measures to be taken, reduce delays; in contrast, they oppose or decisions to be adopted at European continuing the reduction in flight distance, level, regarding inter alia the deployment of hence in the greenhouse gas emissions. More SESAR or the role of the Network Manager. 4 The French ATM Strategy Contents PART 1. INTRODUCTION 6 1.1 The French aviation sector 9 1.2 Overview of the French airspace and ATM 10 1.3 Drivers for airspace and ATM modernization 11 1.4 Benefits and challenges 14 PART 2. INITIATIVES 18 2.1 Modernizing the terminal airspace A Paris airspace optimization plan 20 B Airspace and ATM modernization at French airports 23 2.2 Modernizing the upper airspace A Implementing free route airspace 28 B Improving the flexible use of airspace 30 2.3 Modernizing ATM systems, tools and infrastructure A Modernizing ATM systems and tools 31 B Upgrading the French CNS infrastructure 33 C Resilience and business continuity 35 2.4 Airspace and ATM for general aviation and drones A Airspace and ATM for general aviation 37 B Integrating unmanned drone operations 39 PART 3. IMPLEMENTATION 40 3.1 Coordination, oversight and engagement 42 3.2 Conclusion and next steps 44 GLOSSARY 45 5 The French ATM Strategy PART 1 Introduction THIS DOCUMENT DESCRIBES THE STRATEGY FOR THE MODERNIZATION OF AIRSPACE AND AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN MAINLAND FRANCE AND THE OVERSEAS TERRITORIES. 6 The French ATM Strategy 7 The French ATM Strategy Scope Stakeholders The scope of the French ATM The FAS is intended for all stakeholders with Strategy (FAS) includes the: an interest in the aviation sector including the government, the regulator, the military, • Environmental performance as a priority passengers, aircraft operators, airports, to support sustainable development ANSPs, companies that rely on air transport to of aviation and flight efficiency; conduct their business and communities that • Structure and capacity of the French may be affected by environmental impacts. airspace and the routes that aircraft fly; • Procedures and systems used to This version of the FAS has been developed by manage the flow of traffic; DSNA and IATA. The draft FAS will be shared • Requirements of different airspace users, with a broader range of aviation stakeholders including commercial air transport, to gather their views on the content before general aviation and the military; it is finalised and submitted to the DGAC for • The improvements to the airspace and approval and moves into implementation. ATM in the French overseas territories; • Communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) infrastructure that modern aviation relies on to operate safely and efficiently. The strategic 1 2 3 4 goals of the FAS Set out the main Identify the aviation Establish a clear line Provide a basis for initiatives that stakeholders that of sight between the aviation stakeholders aviation stakeholders are responsible for implementation of to coordinate will progress to delivering each specific initiatives their activities at modernize the French initiative and the and their expected a national level, airspace and ATM in main dependencies benefits, in terms oversee progress and line with European between them. of capacity, safety, make collaborative and Global plans. efficiency, resilience decisions about and environmental how, where and performance. when to implement specific changes. 8 The French ATM Strategy Part 1 — Introduction 1.1 THE FRENCH AVIATION SECTOR Aviation keeps people connected and provides the international access that France needs for trade, business and tourism.