Airspace Efficiency Groups

Our Airspace Efficiency Groups, comprising air traffic controllers and operational expertise at our Prestwick and Swanwick centres continue to be a major success by supporting the delivery of short term procedural and tactical changes to airspace.

Each member’s role is to champion environment and fuel efficiency for their ‘watch’, helping identify opportunities for improvement and drive action to meet the unit’s fuel burn and CO2 reduction targets.

Together with airline and airport customer ideas the Airspace Efficiency Groups have identified and been working on over 500 potential improvements to airspace since they formed in 2009. All of these ideas are captured in our Airspace Efficiency Database, a central database which provides a framework to help identify, prioritise and deliver near-term fuel burn and CO2 savings. Of course, not all ideas can be delivered immediately – viability, cost, resource and regulatory requirements all need to be factored in, but the procedures teams at Swanwick and Prestwick are working hard to select and deliver those that are viable and offer greatest potential fuel and emissions savings.

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