Six States and Eurocontrol Meet on New European Airspace Structure

Six European states along with their ANSPs (air navigation service providers) and Eurocontrol have met formally for the first time to discuss how they collectively will create functional airspace blocks (FABs) to improve airspace capacity over the continent.

The European Commission has called for FABs to be part of the Single European Sky that envisions traffic flows to be organized according to best routes rather than national boundaries.  Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland and Eurocontrol are currently studying how a large common airspace block, to be called FAB Europe Central, would accomplish this goal.

The airspace over these six countries, located in the core of Europe, is one of the busiest and most complex in the world, and contains most of Europe's largest airports.  02-20-2007.

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