
October 16, 2023
Think have been instrumental to the development of the Remote and Digital Towers concept from our first involvement over 13 years ago. Our contribution first started in SESAR where we authored the first widely accepted Remote and Digital Towers concept, and since ...

August 23, 2023
The SESAR R&D programme has provided the principal mechanism to drive advancement towards a connected and digitalised European ATM system since 2005. This Summer, the final review meetings took place for SESAR 2020 Waves 2 & 3 (ending the 2nd iteration of ...

July 31, 2023
As the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic continues, demand remains consistently high for enhanced airport capacity and efficiency, and in particular for increased runway throughput. During recent years, knowledge about wake vortex behaviour in the ...

June 12, 2023
Introduction
Over the past few decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, revolutionising industries across the globe. In the aviation sector, AI has made significant strides, propelling the industry towards a new era of ...

May 10, 2023
A little over a year ago, we made the decision to further expand and open a new office in Farnborough. With the level of growth that we achieved here at Think in the last few years, we needed another base to allow further planned growth and expansion over the next ...

May 3, 2023
Over the last few weeks we have been working with NATS in finalising our new framework agreement. Under the new agreement, Think will provide a range of services to support NATS projects, products, research, and SESAR.
We have been working continually with NATS ...

March 17, 2023
A couple of weeks ago, Think took part in the UK Department for Business and Trade airports trade mission to Saudi Arabia. James Lewis took part in the mission alongside sixteen delegates from UK companies representing the full spectrum of airport services. The ...

March 7, 2023
Today at the CANSO Executive Summit held in Geneva, we saw the first accreditation being awarded as part of the CANSO GreenATM programme.

February 14, 2023
This month, Think ATM Consultants James Lewis and Elizabet Pavlova attended the annual CANSO Safety and Operations’ Workgroups and Task Forces Meeting

December 13, 2022
A few weeks ago, during the CANSO Asia Pacific Conference 2022 in Goa, we learnt more about ANS provision in APAC and the challenges that the actors in the region are facing.
It was announced during the conference that Think Research will work hand in hand with ...

November 30, 2022
When considering provision of disability services at airports it is important to answer what appears to be a simple question. How is disability defined? Disability is made up of several dimensions, including mobility, sensory, communication, intellectual/mental ...

November 22, 2022
Tower Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs)- aerodrome and approach, are faced with the challenges of managing growth whilst controlling expenditure, improving the environmental performance

November 1, 2022
Over the last 18 months, Think has supported EUROCONTROL on their role leading the development of the operational concept for Virtual Centres within SESAR (PJ32).
Last week, we had the opportunity to learn how the concept could work in practice. Alexandra ...

September 5, 2022
Controlled airspace infringements caused by general aviation (GA) pilots is a fascinating topic, as it is a consistent problem in the UK’s airspace, evident as one of the most common occurring incident types.

August 10, 2022
What challenges must be overcome if we are to keep the drone and UAM revolution quiet so as to avoid community protest and operating curfews?
There are regular news articles about deliveries by drone as the zero-emission alternative to delivery vans ...

July 20, 2022
Last month at World ATM Congress in Madrid, Michelle Bishop (Director, Programmes at CANSO) and Think Principal Consultant, Nick Boud, officially launched a new independent Environmental Accreditation Programme - GreenATM.
The new programme has been designed to ...

June 7, 2022
On the 28th May NAV CANADA, the Canadian Air Traffic Services Provider, went live with the Intelligent Approach™ (IA) system. This is a significant achievement for the NATS and Leidos joint project that has developed and implemented the system for Toronto ...

May 12, 2022
The first scheduled commercial air service was flown in 1914 by the St. Petersburg – Tampa Airboat Line. By the mid-1950s communities in the vicinity of US airports began to complain about the level of noise

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 ...

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 ...

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.