LONDON, 2016-Mar-11 — /Travel PR News/ — An innovative new procedure pioneered at Heathrow that allows more aircraft to land per hour during heavy head winds won one of five Single European Sky Awards yesterday.
The Single European Sky awards celebrate the best examples of collaboration within the air traffic management community in Europe, helping to increase interoperability and encourage innovation.
Mark Burgess, Head of Air Traffic Management & Air Traffic Control at Heathrow says:
“Through Time Based Separation, we have delivered a better passenger experience, better service to our airline customers and also reduced our environmental impacts by reducing emissions and noise. The success of this industry-leading technique could have only come about through collaboration with our partners and a joint ambition to improve and drive forward innovation in air traffic management across Europe.”
TBS is now mandated to be in operation at Europe’s busiest airports by 2024 and many of the lessons learned from the work to take it from concept to implementation will be valuable across Europe in the coming years.
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For more information the Single European Sky Awards, please visit: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/air/ses/ses-award/index_en.htm
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Time Based Separation innovative new procedure pioneered at Heathrow wins Single European Sky Award