FABEC - we work together to keep the skies safe
Since June 2013, the Functional Airspace Block Europe Central, known as FABEC is officially in operation. It comprises the airspace of the six FABEC States of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland and is one of the busiest in the world. FABEC handles about 5.8 million flights per year - 55% of European air traffic.
Performance
Punctuality
In 2016, air traffic controllers guided 5.79 million flights (+ 3.2 percent) safely and punctually through the FABEC airspace. This was an all-time high for traffic volume, topping the historical peak reached in 2007.
Air traffic punctuality remains good. 94.1 percent of all flights experienced no delays caused by air traffic control, 97.5 percent less than 15 minutes delay (ATFM en-route delays).
Read MoreLatest Media Releases
16/Oct/2017Understanding weather phenomena in ATM: Need for further analysis of weather phenomena impacting air traffic confirmed by MET Alliance investigation
read more13/Oct/2017FABEC Training Conference attracts participants from all over the world
read more09/Oct/2017Call for Papers: "Research Workshop on Volatility in Air Traffic and its impact on ATM Performance"
read more06/Oct/2017Systems: Common procurement of instrument landing systems
read more22/Sep/2017InterFAB Cooperation: Common tool for ATSEP standard assessment delivered
read more19/Sep/2017Performance first half 2017: Above-average traffic increase affects punctuality
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Results
XMAN Extended Arrival Management
Extended Arrival Management XMAN enables an optimised traffic flow into the major airports within and close to the FABEC airspace to generate performance improvements especially in terms of environment (CO2 and fuel-burn reduction), safety (reduction in stack holding) and capacity (reduction in traffic bunching/workload).
The idea of XMAN is described in a new video.
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DSNA | 13/Oct/2017DSNA and IATA to cooperate on French ATM Strategy
read moreBelgocontrol | 23/Jun/2017Extension of maintenance contract with Thales
read moreEUROCONTROL | 19/Jun/2017Netherlands Airspace Vision gains new ground with civil-military integration in Dutch upper airspace
read moreBelgocontrol | 16/Jun/201770% of green landings at Brussels Airport in 2016
read moreBelgocontrol | 26/May/2017Belgocontrol ensures service provision at Ostend airport through collaboration with NATS
read moreskyguide | 01/May/2017Students rank skyguide among Switzerland’s Most Attractive Employers
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Operations
Free Route
FABEC ANSPs agreed on one common concept of operations to ensure a harmonised implementation. First implementations will take place in December 2017 in the Maastricht airspace and in spring 2018 in the German airspace.
To ensure smooth implementation airspace users, the Network Manager and dispatch providers are closely involved in the project.
View VideoUpcoming Events
25/Oct/2017Presentation AOG Meeting
07/Nov/2017Tripartite States
Belgian MoT, Brussels15/Nov/2017MUAC / Plenary customer consultation meeting
LHR18/Nov/2017DFS / VFR Pilot day
HQ DFS Langen20/Nov/2017skyguide / Business Day
Bern27/Nov/2017InterFAB Operations Workshop, FABCE
Ljubljana27/Nov/2017Operational Working Session (OWS)
Paris-Orly28/Nov/20172017 CDM@DSNA seminar
Paris-Orly28/Nov/2017LVNL / ChiefPilots@LVNL
LVNL, Schiphol, The Netherlands29/Nov/2017FABEC Council IATA/A4E
08/Dec/2017Customer Relations WG
Eurocontrol Maastricht13/Dec/2017DFS / Free Route Airspace workshop
HQ DFS Langen29/Jan/20182nd FABEC RAD Workshop
DFS, Langen31/Jan/2018InterFAB Performance Workshop
Bulatsa, Sofia06/Mar/2018World ATM Congress 2018
Madrid13/Mar/2018SC Operations + Head of ACC Group
DSNA, Paris15/May/2018Research Workshop on Volatility in Air Traffic and its impact on ATM Performance
Warsaw/Poland
read more20/Jun/2018SC Operations
skyguide, Zurich19/Sep/2018SC Operations
MUAC, Maastricht12/Dec/2018SC OPS/62
Belgocontrol, Brussels
