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Study on a common control centre
Geneva/Langen/Paris, 20 November 2009
The FABEC partner organisations DSNA, DFS and skyguide have been tasked by the ministries of transport to study the feasibility of a common control centre in the triangle-border region of Switzerland, Germany and France. The study will concern the idea of controlling the entire Swiss and some German and French airspace from one single control centre in the border triangle between France, Germany and Switzerland. In a letter to the three air navigation service providers, the ministries emphasised the importance of this initiative in the southern part of the FABEC. A jointly operated centre in the border triangle should lead to an optimised airspace and centre structure and should be seen as a welcome contribution of the FABEC to the realisation of the objectives of the Single European Sky initiative. The study will thus be embedded in the overall FABEC project. The participating States tasked the concerned air navigation service providers to present, in one year's time, a feasibility study which would facilitate final decision-making.
The initiative was, among others, launched in the process of a large-scale internal project by the Swiss ANSP skyguide in 2008 in order to set up a new organisational strategy. For this purpose, skyguide developed six scenarios, national and international, one of which was the establishment of a common FABEC control centre. This option shall now be evaluated in-depth by the three concerned FABEC partners.
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