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As Europeans plan their summer holidays, European ANSPs are preparing for a busy travel season. Overall flight numbers are predicted to grow by 7 per cent compared to last summer and, in some countries, traffic will surpass pre-COVID levels.
Yet there is also continued disruption to traffic flows due to the conflict in  Ukraine, military training exercises and more adverse weather.
How can ANSPs provide sufficient capacity across the network in this complicated operating environment, while also meeting other expectations such as regarding environmental performance? Johnny Pring discusses these questions with Iacopo Prissinotti, the Director of the EUROCONTROL Network Manager, and Enrique Maurer, CEO of Spanish air navigation services provider ENAIRE.

In the second of our special episodes from Airspace World 2024, we look at the Future Skies: Tomorrow's Voices activities taking place at the show. Students and young professionals from the aviation industry spent the day at Airspace World in a series of sessions and discussions, culminating in a careers fair. We talked to two of them.

Airspace World 2024, the world's largest gathering of the air traffic management industry, has started in Geneva, Switzerland. Airspace World begins with the CANSO Executive Summit 2024, at which Dr. Mark Esposito, a renowned expert on AI, gave the opening keynote speech, titled The Great Remobilisation. Dr. Esposito explained the current challenges the world faces due to globalisation and rapidly advancing technology, and about the almost limitless possibilities those factors also present.
You can listen to his speech here, and the subsequent question and answer session with Simon Hocquard, CANSO's Director General.

How can ANSPs assess and demonstrate their green credentials? CANSO’s GreenATM programme was established for this very purpose. It provides an independent, industry endorsed, accreditation of an ANSP’s efforts to improve its operational and organisational impact on climate and the environment. Two of the first CANSO members to be accredited are skeyes of Belgium and LVNL of the Netherlands. Johnny Pring spoke to their CEOs, Johan Decuyper (skeyes) and Michiel van Dorst (LVNL), to learn more about their GreenATM accreditation experience.

CANSO Europe's Johnny Pring talks to Eduardo Garcia, Senior Manager Future Skies, CANSO, about the airspace of tomorrow. How will we integrate drones and flying taxis alongside traditional air traffic? How should new and existing aviation players collaborate to their mutual advantage, and what regulation is required? And what will be the role of air navigation services providers in this exciting transition?  

The Ukraine war has had a profound impact on European aviation, pushing traffic to the west and south-west and creating new overflight routes. How have air navigation services providers coped with these new traffic flows, greater military airspace needs and increased volatility? The CANSO air traffic management podcast spoke to two senior ANSP managers from countries neighbouring the conflict to learn how they have addressed this challenge: 
•             Maciej Rodak, Vice President for Air Navigation Services, PANSA (Poland)
•             Adrian Florea, COO, ROMATSA (Romania)