
March 5, 2021
Looking for a reliable/ accurate Air traffic forecast? Well, it's not that easy to find one in the challenging and forever changing environment that we currently find ourselves in. The COVID pandemic has created huge uncertainty in who can or wants to fly where

March 3, 2021
It is no secret that the COVID pandemic has had a significant impact on the aviation industry and has put a certain amount of strain on airports across the globe. As a leading ATM and Airports consultancy we want to be in a strong position to be able to help and support our airport clients on their road to recovery from the impacts that the pandemic may have had on their operations.

February 24, 2021
Around about this time in a normal year (where normal is the old normal, not this new normal), we’d be packing up for World ATM Congress in Madrid.

January 25, 2021
Would you trust a self-driving car to take you on your next journey? If not, why not? Is it because you don’t know what decisions the car is going to make along the journey to keep you safe?
This question, specifically, how do you ensure the safety of a system ...

January 13, 2021
Rory Hedman, Sarah McLarty and Elizabet Pavlova will be presenting at the ‘Improving efficiency through remote and digital towers’ CANSO Academy series. The webinar series is being moderated by our MD, Conor Mullan and will include contributions from key ...

January 13, 2021
Think consultant Jonathan Twigger was in the United Arab Emirates in December to lead an eight-day validation activity, simulating operations at Abu Dhabi International Airport’s new Midfield-Terminal Building (MTB).

December 14, 2020
On Thursday 10th December Paul Ravenhill took to the stage on the ICAO Global Symposium which this year focused on the ‘Implementation of Innovation in Aviation’. Paul was invited to join the 5th panel with the main topic of discussion being the economic ...

December 9, 2020
Over the past few years Think have been involved in a range of R&D and deployment projects for approach concepts, and during that time I have developed my knowledge in this area. There are many different types and categories of approaches and the distinction between them can seem rather confusing!

December 2, 2020
Next week from the 8th till the 11th December, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) will be hosting a series of panels across 3 different time zones as part of their virtual Global Symposium focusing on the ‘Implementation Of Innovation In ...

November 24, 2020
Think has been leading Real Time Simulation (RTS) Validation Activities all around the world since its foundation in 2004. These range from simulations to develop early maturity SESAR concepts to the very large scale demonstrations addressing Free Route ...

November 23, 2020
Last month saw the conclusion of four development simulations for the implementation of Intelligent Approach (IA) at Schiphol airport, which were co-ordinated by Think with support from NATS IA air traffic controller (ATCo) lead. Think’s involvement in the ...

November 17, 2020
Airspace change proposals vary significantly in terms of complexity, size and environmental impact – they could be simple, straightforward and with limited environmental and operational effect (e.g. route replication), or they could be complex changes with ...

November 16, 2020
Our previous blogs have covered aviation emissions in the past and future years. We now turn towards one of the high-profile candidates for minimising aviation’s impact on climate – Hydrogen Powered Aircraft, where hydrogen is used as a fuel instead of kerosene. ...

November 16, 2020
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I've expended quite a few words recently on our need as an industry to honestly own our emissions problem and to take the COVID pause as an opportunity to rethink our ambitions of unfettered growth. (TL;DR: We need something ...

November 9, 2020
In my previous blog article, I presented a new focus for advanced approach concepts - harnessing their environmental benefits in a future very high density PBN approach airspace. In this blog, I continue with the next step in this idea - the means of getting the ...

November 9, 2020
And now for something different… Step inside the mind of one of our biggest brains at Think as Principal Consultant Peter Weeks brings you his own unique insight into the future of ATM concepts.

November 9, 2020
Tomorrow at 10:00am marks the start of the virtual Standards Evolution Workshop which is being organised by EUROCONTROL in partnership with the European Commission and the EASA.The workshop aims to bring together stakeholders to discuss how standards can ...

November 2, 2020
November is an exciting month for our Fast Time Simulation (FTS) team. Our AirTOp expert, Elizabet Pavlova, and our ArcPORT expert, Irene Boñal Bravo, will both be attending the online User Group Conferences organised by Transoft Solutions. During the events, ...

October 21, 2020
When the market talks Digital Towers, it usually focuses on operational benefits or technological advancements, and not so much on the human performance and human factors. Yet we at Think have long acknowledged that this is a significant aspect of the concept, ...

October 18, 2020
We are pleased to have been awarded our first contract within the second wave of SESAR 2020. Our consultants have begun providing comprehensive support to EUROCONTROL for the duration of the PJ.02-W2-14 solution. The ‘Evolution Of Separation Minima For ...

October 14, 2020
Back in May we did some analysis on the COVID-related measures likely to be put in place during air travel. We modelled some recovery scenarios across the terminal and the gate as traffic started to pick up following “lockdown” across Europe. Now that 6 months have passed and we have a clearer picture of what form the recovery is taking, we’ve taken a look back at our modelling to see if the analysis still holds.

September 28, 2020
As Human Factors has grown as a discipline within the ATM industry, controller workload has slowly gained appreciation by decision makers as a key performance indicator (KPIs) and is now a standard marker of operational feasibility across development projects – and

September 23, 2020
From the 16th to the 22nd of September many politicians, companies and individuals celebrated this year’s European Mobility Week, ironically, in a year where mobility has been reduced to unprecedented levels. As a result, this year we are more aligned than we ...

September 22, 2020
We are ready for school! This week is the second summer school organised by the Engage KTN the SESAR Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), rather than the usual physical event, this year will be a virtually run event in the Autumn. It is set to be a great gathering

September 21, 2020
The Airspace Architecture Study (AAS) provides a blueprint for removing structural inefficiencies in Europe through a process of virtualisation. However, the AAS does not consider how this process could be incentivised through economic regulation. Whilst the SES ...

September 14, 2020
In 2004, just as Think was starting, something else was born – the Single European Sky ATM Research Programme (SESAR). A few years later, in 2008, the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU) was set up to manage the research and develop phases of the project. In the ...

September 7, 2020
Spaceflight is booming. Virgin Galactic and SpaceX have become household names in recent years with their impressive feats of engineering. Virgin Galactic are set to take tourists to the edges of space and SpaceX want to take us to Mars! All of this though is ...

September 2, 2020
Back in June we updated our website to include a Remote and Digital Towers resources page, this included Think’s first-of-its-kind map of Digital Tower projects which uses a unique dataset to help to visualise the current landscape of this concept. Despite it ...

August 26, 2020
We've written recently about the climate aspects of the UK aviation industry and how we could prioritise carbon reduction as we eventually recover from the downturn. In preparing that article we noted that, at the aviation industry level, there are many figures ...

August 24, 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic news erupted, and the seriousness of the situation was realised, the initial schedule for the implementation of Intelligent Approach (IA) at Schiphol Airport instantly appeared a lot more challenging.