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November, traditionally the slowest month of the year for air traffic, experienced only a minor dip in traffic numbers from October and the year ended with a strong holiday period despite extreme weather once again affecting operations in various regions. China removed its remaining travel restrictions in November 2023 and though some of its major traffic segments have yet to hit their stride – such as group travel – there are positive signs for Chinese travel throughout Asia Pacific and globally. Overall, aviation is expected to continue growing. The International Air Transport Association predicts 4.7 billion people will travel in 2024, a record high that exceeds the 2019 level of 4.5 billion travellers.
Safety and sustainability
Air traffic management contended with several challenges and opportunities throughout 2023.
Implementing new technologies remained vital. Although there are different solutions tackling a variety of procedures, digitalisation and rich data content lies at the heart of most offerings. Accurate real-time data provides the trust that is so important to enabling future seamless operations.
A host of procedural improvements throughout the world furthered this effort for greater efficiency, including ATFM, trajectory-based operations and time-based separation. These improvements had the additional benefit of improving sustainability, which only increased in importance in 2023. The year saw sustainability initiatives intensified, bringing carbon reduction in every aspect of operations. Three ANSPs were certified at Level 3 in
CANSO’s GreenATM programme, for example. LVNL, skeyes, and Skyguide have all implemented a variety of programmes that will help the industry attain its goal of net zero carbon emissions in 2050.
But sustainability is just one of the game-changing elements that is forcing ANSPs to reimagine the ATM sector. New airspace users will also dramatically transform our skies in the years ahead.
Drones doing last-mile deliveries and carrying humanitarian aid continue to proliferate and there is a corresponding increase in solutions for their management and integration into civil airspace. Drones are just one component in advanced air mobility, however, which also includes air taxis and other forms of transport and logistics. eVTOLs (electric vertical take-off and landing) are set to have an enormous impact on airspace operations and already companies have plans for vertiports, basically airports for eVTOLs.
In 2023, CANSO continued to refine its Complete Air Traffic System (CATS) initiative to harmonise all these elements and provide a roadmap for its vision of the skies in 2045. CATS emphasises the importance of a safe, sustainable and scalable system that is also accessible and resilient to meet growing volumes and growing diversity in the skies. The industry’s efforts in diversity, equity and inclusion in 2023 is supporting this vision by broadening the talent base.
With the challenges brought by the pandemic now firmly behind the industry, in 2024 ANSPs will focus on opportunities for growth with safety and sustainably guiding the way.
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INTRODUCTION
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