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Facts & Figures
The FABEC area
The core area of Europe has one of the highest traffic densities in the world. The FAB Europe Central airspace, which covers Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland (totalling 1,713,442 km2) is characterised by closely interlaced civil and military traffic routes. Most of the large European airports and major civil and military airways are located in this area. Owing to its size and central position in Europe, FABEC is a cornerstone of the Single European Sky.
FABEC airspace is characterised by:
- a complex and dense ATS route network;
- an area of 1.7 million km2, equalling 9% of the surface area of the European continent: the FABEC airspace has the dimensions of 960 NM (1,780 km) from north to south and 990 NM (1,835 km) from east to west;
- 5.5 million flights per year, equating to 55% of all European air traffic;
- traffic growth is forecast to reach close to
7 million flights by 2016; - about 400 military/special areas;
- some 370 control sectors;
- 14 area control centres (Brussels, Bordeaux, Brest, Marseille, Paris, Reims, Bremen, Munich, Karlsruhe, Langen, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Geneva and Zürich);
- some 240 airports operating instrument flight rules (IFR);
- 3 major intercontinental hub airports (Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt) and proximity to the London airports;
- a total of 17,700 civil employees, including 5,400
air traffic controllers, plus military staff
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