THE FUTURE OF TOWER AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES (ANS)

Tower Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs)- aerodrome and approach, are faced with the challenges of managing growth whilst controlling expenditure, improving the environmental performance of ground and flight operations and supporting the implementation of future operational concepts for en-route airspace. We’ve written in the past about the future of airport operations, but it seems timely to also visit the topic of the future of Tower ANS in light of increased environmental pressures leading to new airspace concepts such as the stated intent of many large ANSPs to operate their airspace utilising Trajectory Based Operations (TBO).