Establish a collaborative civil-military airspace planning at the European Network level through an integrated Airspace Management/Air Traffic Flow Capacity Management (ASM/ATFCM) process and an extended planning phase into the day of operations.

Ensure full exploitation of capacity becoming available through the identification of efficient combinations of areas allocation, routes availability, including CDRs, and sector configurations able to cope with traffic demand. The process will be applied also for improving the planning activities related to the updates to airspace status.

Foster a consistent application of the Flexible Use of Airspace (FUA) Concept across the European network, and support a safe, efficient and accurate flow of ASM data.

This will support the ECAC States collective responsibility for European airspace planning and management that provides for a continuum and transparency of airspace structures and rules at boundaries while satisfying national security and defence requirements.

The improved planning process refers to the use of specific procedures allowing Airline Operators (AOs) to optimise their flight planning in order to achieve a more efficient utilization of available airspace through more dynamic responses to specific short notice or real-time airspace status changes, requirements and route optimisation at the pre-tactical and/or tactical levels.

Develop, validate and implement ASM/ATFCM processes, procedures and supporting tools at national, sub-regional and the European Network level to ensure that airspace is used more flexibly, capacity is better balanced and predictability is enhanced through greater adherence to planned activities as a result of better planning and notification.

It will provide a coherent response to the recommendations of the Performance Review Commission (PRC) report on Civil-Military Airspace Utilisation (2007) in accordance with the Dynamic Management of the European Airspace Network (DMEAN) Framework Programme and DMEAN Conception of Operations (CONOPS) and supporting expected deliverables of SESAR WP7 [Network Operations] in particular P7.5.2 [Advanced FUA Concept].

Ultimately, the ASM operations continue until the real-time activation of airspaces or routes. The alignment between both ASM/ATFCM processes shall continue to ensure the assessment of the network impact, the identification of flights affected by real-time modifications, as well as the timely dissemination of the decisions. Airspace uses (allocations, activations, deactivations) are issued from the ASM tools (LARA, STANLY, etc) via B2B.

FOR MILITARY AUTHORITIES: It is the responsibility of each Military Authority to review this ESSIP Objective IN ITS ENTIRETY and address each of the SloAs that the Military Authority considers RELEVANT for itself. This has to be done on top and above of the review of "MIL" SloAs which identify actions EXCLUSIVE to MIL Authorities

Edition

2022

Stakeholders

Air Navigation Service Provider / Airspace Users / Network Manager

Type

SESAR

Scope

ECAC

Status

Removed