ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF AIRFIELD LAYOUT CHANGES ON AIRPORT RFFS

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF AIRFIELD LAYOUT CHANGES ON AIRPORT RFFS

Recently Think led a series of workshops with the Rescue and Fire Fighting Service (RFFS) of a major UK airport as part of a project requiring the development of new emergency response procedures. The work required a good understanding of airport emergency response...
We need to do more.  We need to say more.

We need to do more.  We need to say more.

I have almost 1000 connections on LinkedIn but I didn’t see a single post on the #blacklivesmatter movement or talking about one of the biggest worldwide news stories of the year.   Why is that? The obvious defence is that LinkedIn is not Facebook.  That it’s...
THE VALUE IN KEEPING ATCOS ENGAGED THROUGHOUT ATM RECOVERY

THE VALUE IN KEEPING ATCOS ENGAGED THROUGHOUT ATM RECOVERY

The world over, ANSPs and airports are currently operating at reduced staffing levels in response to far fewer flights in need of service. As such, controllers are either working less frequently or not at all through furlough schemes. Even those now on-shift in the...
SIMULATING COVID IMPACTS ON AIRFIELD OPERATIONS

SIMULATING COVID IMPACTS ON AIRFIELD OPERATIONS

At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic air traffic levels quickly dropped to around 70% globally. Now we are starting to observe a movement towards traffic recovery.  Commercial flying is starting to resume with health and safety measures strictly embedded into the...
THE FUTURE OF ATM – CURRENT REFLECTIONS

THE FUTURE OF ATM – CURRENT REFLECTIONS

Two months ago, as the coronavirus pandemic was taking hold, we completed our series of blogs on the future of ATM by concluding that despite the current crisis, the need to act remains. If aviation is to be part of the carbon free future, then ATM modernisation is...