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Modernising airspace on the skies of Great Britain: it's the request of air traffic controllers

London, United Kingdom - The increasing number of aircraft makes necessary to update the system, also to reduce the impact on the environment

Eight hundred thousand airplanes are awaited today by air traffic controllers of the United Kingdom, a number which was never reached before but that does not impress insiders: 2017 is a record-year for the British skies with 770.000 flights being expected just in the summer months, a 5% increase compared to last year. The CEO of National Air Traffic Control Services (NATS) -the main provider of air...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1205955
Rome, Italy, 07/21/2017 18:31
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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