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Airservices Australia Releases September Australian Aviation Network Overview 

Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for September 2024. Highlights include: About AirservicesAirservices Australia is the Federal Government-owned organisation responsible for the safety of 11 per cent of the world’s airspace and the provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. We work closely with our customers and industry to…

Airservices Australia Releases August Australian Aviation Network Overview 

Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for August 2024. Highlights include: About AirservicesAirservices Australia is the Federal Government-owned organisation responsible for the safety of 11 per cent of the world’s airspace and the provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. We work closely with our customers and industry to…

Airservices Australia invites community feedback on proposed Bankstown airspace changes

Airservices Australia is seeking community feedback on the proposed light aircraft corridor to the southeast of Bankstown Airport’s controlled airspace. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s (CASA) proposal, made in conjunction with Airservices, is to reclassify a portion of airspace that would see general aviation pilots offered a more direct route to the south-east of Bankstown…

Airservices Australia Signs Up to New Simulator Training Tech for Air Traffic Controllers

Australia’s air traffic controllers will soon have their training capability augmented through the introduction of a new cloud-based simulator service. Airservices Australia has signed a three-year service agreement with Airways International Limited (AIL) for their tower simulation product called TotalControl ATC Simulation. Under this trans-Tasman partnership, operators in New Zealand will remotely create and operate…

Airservices Australia Releases July Australian Aviation Network Overview 

Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for July 2024. Highlights include: About AirservicesAirservices Australia is the Federal Government-owned organisation responsible for the safety of 11 per cent of the world’s airspace and the provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. We work closely with our customers and industry to…

Airservices Australia trials flexible user-preferred routing for shorter travel and sustainability in cross-border collaboration

Airservices Australia is collaborating with air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and airline operators from Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Singapore to trial an initiative that will allow pilots on select flights to choose their own routes between destinations to take advantage of prevailing winds to shorten travel times, save fuel and reduce carbon emissions. In…

First air traffic control trainees graduate from Australia-New Zealand partnership

Airservices Australia has welcomed the first air traffic controllers (ATCs) to graduate from its training partnership with New Zealand’s Airways International Ltd (AIL), set up last year to augment Airservices’ own training program and accelerate the onboarding of new controllers. Airservices is investing in its workforce with more than 80 ATCs expected to join the…

Airservices Australia calls for industry feedback on front-end services in cutting-edge drone traffic management ecosystem

Airservices Australia is seeking feedback from technology providers to inform how the organisation can best support the development of digital services to drone operators, as part of Australia’s future drone traffic management ecosystem. These innovative software solutions will ensure the safe growth of the burgeoning drone industry – as part of the broader drone traffic…

Airservices Australia calls for community feedback on draft Ballina airspace and flightpath design changes 

Airservices Australia is inviting the community to have its say on preliminary airspace and flightpath design changes around Ballina Byron Gateway Airport aimed at safely accommodating the continued growth of air traffic in the burgeoning region.  Residents can provide feedback at seven community engagement sessions (including an online option) listed here, until Sunday, 8th September. …

Statement From Airservices Australia Acting Board Chair Anne Brown

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Rob Sharp as Interim CEO of Airservices. His appointment reflects the Board’s recognition of the value that an expert, external perspective can bring in progressing the challenges and opportunities presented by Airservices’ significant business transformation programme. Rob will commence with the organisation on Monday 29 July 2024 and joins…

Airservices Australia Releases Australian Aviation Network Overview Financial Year 2024

Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview Financial Year 2024 report covering trends in the Australian aviation sector. Key highlights for FY2024 include:• The Australian aviation network recorded 3.7 million aircraft movements tracking along pre-pandemic levels.• Thursday, 28 March 2024 was the busiest day in terms of daily average flights in the last five years.•…

Airservices Australia reaches in-principle enterprise agreement for air traffic control service

Following extensive discussions, Airservices Australia has reached an in-principle agreement with Civil Air on the terms of a three-year enterprise agreement covering our air traffic controllers (ATCs).   The agreement has been sent to ATCs for consideration ahead of a ballot to be held from 28 June to 3 July. The proposed agreement offers an 11.2…

Airservices Australia releases May Australian Aviation Network Overview 

Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for May 2024. Highlights include: About AirservicesAirservices Australia is the Federal Government-owned organisation responsible for the safety of 11 per cent of the world’s airspace and the provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. We work closely with our customers and industry…

Airservices Australia releases April Australian Aviation Network Overview

Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview  report for April 2024. Highlights include: About AirservicesAirservices Australia is the Federal Government-owned organisation responsible for the safety of 11 per cent of the world’s airspace and the provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. We work closely with our customers and industry…

Airservices Australia releases March Australian Aviation Network Overview

Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for March 2024. Highlights include: About AirservicesAirservices Australia is the Federal Government-owned organisation responsible for the safety of 11 per cent of the world’s airspace and the provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. We work closely with our customers and industry to…

Airservices Australia releases February Australian Aviation Network Overview

Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for February 2024. Highlights include: About AirservicesAirservices Australia is the Federal Government-owned organisation responsible for the safety of 11 per cent of the world’s airspace and the provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. We work closely with our customers and industry to…

Airservices Australia champions women in aviation for International Women’s Day

Airservices Australia is today proudly supporting a special Virgin Australia flight dispatched, operated, and managed by an all-woman team in celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD). As part of an exciting, second consecutive joint initiative – which involves Virgin Australia, Melbourne Airport, Airservices Australia and Brisbane Airport – Australia’s first female pilot of a major…

Airservices Australia launches nation’s first purpose-built digital air traffic control service at Western Sydney International Airport

Western Sydney will be Australia’s first airport without a traditional air traffic control tower as Airservices Australia modernises its air traffic management capabilities with safe and efficient digital technology. Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport (WSI) will operate as a digitised aerodrome, with more than 20 high-resolution cameras monitoring the airport and immediate airspace and…

Airservices Australia commences build of Australia’s cutting-edge drone traffic management system

Airservices Australia is preparing for an anticipated influx of drones over the next 20 years with the appointment of Frequentis Australasia to develop world-leading, digital air traffic management to safely integrate millions of uncrewed aircraft flights into Australia’s busy airspace. A new analysis commissioned by Airservices predicts that drone flights in Australia will surge from…

Understanding emergency services aircraft operations

Emergency services aircraft operations occur 24/7 across Australia to provide essential medical, fire fighting and police services to the community. What are emergency services operations? Expand Emergency services operations describe fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter flights for: • aeromedical services (air ambulance, medical evacuations, patient transport and urgent organ transport, e.g. the Royal Flying Doctor Service)…

Airservices Australia charts course for 60 million drone flights by 2043

Analysis commissioned by Airservices Australia predicts the annual number of drone flights in Australian skies will surge from 1.5 million a year in 2023 to 60.4 million a year by 2043. The report, Sizing the future drone and advanced air mobility market in Australia, was produced for Airservices to inform the ongoing discussion on how…

Airservices Australia releases January Australian Aviation Network Overview

Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for January 2024. Highlights include: The Australian Aviation Network Overview is updated monthly. About Airservices Airservices Australia is responsible for the safe and efficient management of 11 per cent of the world’s airspace and the provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. We…

Airservices Australia honours its guardians of the Australian sky

Airservices Australia, the nation’s air navigation service provider, is today celebrating International Day of the Air Traffic Controller (IDATC). Airservices is proud of its world-class safety record and safety-first culture. Our air traffic controllers (ATCs) play a vital role in safeguarding air travel. Did you know Airservices’ ATCs manage 11 per cent of the world’s…

Airservices Australia’s new ADO Portal boosts aeronautical data and information collection

Australian aviation is safer and more efficient thanks to Airservices Australia’s new Aeronautical Data Originator (ADO) Portal which offers a new self-managed, digitised and modernised method of aeronautical data and information collection.  As Australia’s air navigation service provider, Airservices is responsible for the collection, management and distribution of essential aeronautical data and information that forms…

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