6/11/2013: French ATC Strike Begins

DALLAS – Today in Aviation, French Air Traffic Controllers commenced a three-day strike to protest against plans to create a single European airspace in 2013.

Plans for the Single European Sky (SES) project can be traced back to 2000. The European Commission gained the consent of all EU Transport Ministers to create a single European sky.

The state-of-the-art ATC tower at Paris CDG. Photo: Avi1111, Dr. Avishai Teicher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Centralised ATC System


This would create a centralized air-traffic control system instead of each country being allowed to monitor its own skies. They read more ⇒

Source:: “Airways Magazine”

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