Traffic falls threaten ANSP incomes

摘要

A sharp downturn in airline traffic in Europe may constitute a threat to efficiency improvements that would benefit the environment, says the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO). With traffic movements at some European hubs dropping by as much as 10% compared with a year ago, air navigation services providers (ANSP) are seeing their incomes drop, which may make their political masters reluctant to invest in system improvements that could reduce fuel consumption and therefore emissions, CANSO fears. Airports and lower airspace are experiencing big traffic drops, said CANSO secretary general Alexander ter Kuile in a 9 October presentation at an air traffic man- agement conference on functional airspace blocks organised by HungaroControl in Budapest, but the global economic slowdown has also reduced over-flights. Ter Kuile quotes the UK's NATS as experiencing nearly 2% total traffic drop, Belgocontrol 0.3%, and Spain's AENA 0.6%.