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May 4, 2022
This week we are pleased to announce the official opening of a new Think office, based in Farnborough. The new office, which is our second opening this year, is located at The Hub in Farnborough Business Park and will be an additional base to our HQ in ...

April 11, 2022
This month, Hanna Neroj will be attending the Ergonomics & Human Factors Conference 2022 which is being held by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomic and Human Factors in Birmingham. The event will be exploring novelties in tools and techniques used for Human ...

April 6, 2022
We are pleased to welcome Colin Smith to the Think team this week, who joins us as Account Director and member of our leadership team. Colin has over 30 years’ experience within the ATM industry across a number of roles and has real passion for driving innovation. ...

March 8, 2022
Data science can be intimidating. The truth about the field is that truly every day is a school day and we are learning and improving all the time. Today, I wanted to talk about one of our favourite methods in our ever-expanding analytics toolkit – the rolling ...

February 2, 2022
2022 is the year for growth here at Think, so what better way to start the year than by welcoming 2 new members to the Think Team.
Last Month Rifayat Miah joined the team as an analyst. Rifayat is no stranger to the team having completed her internship with us back

January 10, 2022
Think Research is pleased to announce the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary company and the opening of a new base in Qatar. The new base was formally opened on 24th October 2021, coinciding with World ATM Congress in Madrid with keys to the permanent office ...

November 8, 2021
We were invited by ATC Network to give our insight and views on UTM in relation to Air Traffic Management as part of their special bulletin entitled: "UTM U-SPACE".Our Technical Director, Paul Ravenhill uses his 30 years’ experience of working on ATM ...

November 3, 2021
We don’t have a crystal ball or the luxury of hindsight when it comes to re-fuelling aviation but developing scenarios may help avoid some of the pit falls.

October 13, 2021
It is time to fly again. Due to the pandemic this normal frequent flyer hasn’t flown for 18 months. Coincidently my first flight back will be the same route as the last one I cancelled – Heathrow to Madrid for the World ATM Congress.It is a fairly regular ...

October 12, 2021
Despite the challenges the past year posed within the aviation industry, the CANSO Smart Digital Tower Task Force (SDT TF) have continued working hard in assisting the international effort for harmonised deployment of Digital Towers through developing guidance ...

October 12, 2021
When will your baggage drive itself to the aircraft?
Autonomous ground vehicles (AV) are being investigated and adopted by airports around the world to fulfil several functions from automated car parking through to baggage transport. They are increasingly capable ...

October 5, 2021
The recovery of sorts is finally underway. The overall traffic levels in Europe appear to be heading upwards and tracking a trend that would show movements to be back to pre-Covid levels by 2024. Whilst we recognise there may still be some turbulence still to come, as an industry we can start to focus on better times ahead (but perhaps still with seatbelts fastened).

September 28, 2021
One of the topics that has not been put on hold over the last 19 months is the development of eVTOLs and UAM. This is the third aviation revolution and will therefore play an important role in the future of mobility for both people and cargo. We recently had ...

September 21, 2021
We are pleased to announce that we have been selected as a finalist in this year’s Investors in People awards. The awards aim to recognise the organisations who made a significant commitment to their people in the past year. Think is a finalist in the Small ...

September 15, 2021
With Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin recently launching their CEOs to space, space tourism has arrived. For a mere $250,000 you can enjoy 3-5 minutes of weightlessness. Bargain!
Now there are no plans for space tourism in the UK - yet - but the UK ...

September 6, 2021
In June 2019 the UK became the first major economy to pass legislation that commits the country to net zero emissions by 2050, which basically means to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 100%.

August 3, 2021
This month we welcomed Vlad Nasta to the Think Team. Vlad joins us as part of a 12 week virtual placement as part of his Summer Internship Programme from the Air Navigation section within Polytechnic University of Bucharest. As part of his placement Vlad will ...

July 28, 2021
Irene Boñal shares her thoughts on improving accessibility to provide a seamless airport experience for all passenger types.

July 5, 2021
We are delighted to have been selected as one of the organisations on EUROCONTROL's new Innovation Labs Framework. The framework will allow us to participate in EUROCONTROL's Innovation Hub projects, which are facilitated by the EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre ...

June 29, 2021
We’re big fans of Shiny here at Think. It allows us to develop data dashboards, display data visualisations and utilise data models to provide actionable insights. It works on any device and is a great tool whether you are presenting in a meeting, demonstrating ...

June 14, 2021
Preparations are well underway here at Think for next weeks’ SESAR’s Engage Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) workshop which will be taking place on the 21st June.
In advance of the workshop, which will be looking at the ‘Economic incentives for future ATM ...

June 1, 2021
On the 21st June 2021, SESAR’s Engage Knowledge Transfer Network will be hosting a workshop on the “Economic incentives for future ATM implementation”. The workshop will include a session being led by the Think team looking at the economics in the ...

May 26, 2021
Whilst the focus of capacity improvement at airports often centres on the runway, increasingly we are seeing airports where the ground movement control (GMC) function is also a contributory factor. This is leading airports to consider how to split the GMC role to alleviate capacity constraints, or where the role is already split, to consider a more optimal split that better balances workload between the controllers. Similarly, where airports are expanding and adding new apron areas or runways this also has the potential to change the GMC role and any existing split of responsibilities.

April 20, 2021
It seems that competition can find a place just about anywhere in today’s modern society…from which supermarket can create the best chocolate caterpillar cake to which company says it best on their social media channels and even long-standing brand wars. The ...

April 19, 2021
Last week Diana Toma presented at the 2021 Air Navigation Convention where she gave an insight into the importance of Social Acceptability of Urban and Advanced Air Mobility.She presented some of her findings on a recent study conducted to find out the current ...

April 7, 2021
Next Wednesday (14th April) marks the kick-off of the Air Navigation Convention 2021. The event is a 3-day virtual event which will take an in depth look into 3 key challenges faced by the industry from the environmental considerations to the need for ...

March 15, 2021
Just over a year ago, in March 2020, we completed an Impact Assessment Study for the Candidate Institutionalised European Partnership for Integrated Air Traffic Management[1]. This was the first step in the regulatory process for the renewal of the SESAR JU. A lot has happened during the last year

March 9, 2021
In the race to develop a vaccine, the UK was the first country to approve the COVID-19 vaccine, less than a year after the UK’s first reported case.

March 8, 2021
The first instance of virtualisation in Air Traffic Management were Remote Towers. The initial concept was simple: digitise the controller’ view, transmit it to a remote location and replicate it to allow tower controllers to perform their duties. This concept has grown and continues to grow.