July 2008 - N°15

Editorial Without Benazir
Laurent ULMANN, Emmanuel LEMPERT, Editorial Staff

Single European Sky:
risks and challenges for Europe

• Single sky, meeting future needs in terms of capacity and aviation safety
  Antonio TAJANI, European Commission Vice-President, Commissioner for Transport
• Single Sky, a priority for the French presidency
  of the European Union
  Dominique BUSSEREAU, French Minister of State, attached to the Minister of State, Minister
  for Ecology, Energy and Sustainable Planning and Development, responsible for Transport
• Europe on its way to becoming the world’s leader
  in air traffic
  Wolfgang TIEFENSEE, German Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban affairs
• The Single European and ICAO
  Monsieur KOBÉ GONZALEZ, President of the ICAO
  Cooperation between EUROCONTROL and the European
• Union in setting up the Single European Sky
  David MCMILLAN, Director General, Eurocontrol
• Single sky, reorganizing airspace according to traffic and
  no longer to borders, a symbol for the European Union
  Paolo COSTA, European Parliamentary, ALDE, President of the Committee on transport
• A call for action
  Jacqueline TAMMENONS BAKKER, Chairwoman, High Level Group on Single European Sky
• Legal basis of a Single European Sky
  Daniel CALLEJA CREPO, Director of Air Transport for the EC, DG-TREN,
  European Commission

I. Single European Sky’s properties: a multi-dimensional project

• Potential benefits from an efficient organization of the
• airspace
• Luc TYTGAT, Head of Single European Sky project, Head of Unit for the European Commission
• SESAR, the technological component of the
  Single European Sky
  Patrick KY, Executive Director, SESAR Joint Undertaking
• NextGen and SESAR: Challenges and Opportunities
  Robert A. STURGELL, Acting Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration
• Aviation Safety – the future role of EASA
  Patrick GOUDOU, Executive Director, European Aviation Safety Agency Cooperation between Europe’s Air Navigation Service
• Providers is vital to the success of Single European Sky
  G.H. KROESE, Chairman of the Executive Board / CEO, Luchtverkeersleiding Nederland
  (Air Traffic Control NL)
  
  The importance of human factors for safety in the air
  Jean-Pierre ETIENNE, Co-chair of the ATM Social Dialogue
• Civil-military coordination in te Single European Sky
  Jean-Robert CAZARRÉ, Director Civil-Military ATM Coordination, EUROCONTROL
• European airspace coordination, a development
  opportunity for Ireland and the UK
  Jerry V. LISTON, Chairman, Irish Aviation Authority (IAA)
• The political aspect of Single Sky: an appeal outside
  the EU
  Francis SCHUBERT, Corporate Development and Deputy CEO, Skyguide, Suisse
• Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, integrating ATM in
  MEDA countries
  Brahim LAKHLIFI, Director of Air Navigation (ONDA), Morocco

II. Industrial and commercial perspectives of the Single European Sky

• “Air Transport is facing major challenges: Airbus stands ready”
• Christian SCHERER, Executive Vice President, head of future programs Airbus
• The Single European Sky: More urgent now than ever
  Peter HARTMAN, AEA Chairman 2008, KLM President and CEO
• SES: a reality check
  Jeff POOLE, IATA Director Industry Charges Fuel & Taxation
• Single European Sky – the longed-for revolution in
  Europe’s ATM?
  John HANLON, Secretary General, ELFAA(European Low Fares Airline Association)
• The Case for ATM Reform: An Airline Perspective
  Tim STULL, Managing Director ATC Strategy and Programs, United Airlines
  Conor MCAULIFFE, Managing Director, Government Affairs – Environment, United Airlines”
• Support of Single European Sky by the air navigation
  service providers
  Marc HAMY, Chairman, European CANSO CEO Committee
• Aviation industry cooperation in establishing a
  Single European Sky
  Fritz FEITL, Chairman, Single European Sky Industry Consultation Body
• Single Sky, an environmental benefit for the
  European Union
  Christine de VEYRAC, European Deputy, Group of the European People’s Party and European Democrats Member
• 
  EGNOS: Good news for Aviation
  Pedro PEDREIRA, Executive Director, European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA)
• The environmental modernisation of airport
  infrastructures: effectively integrating the European airspace
  Pierre FORGUES, French Deputy Hautes-Pyréneés, President of The PYRENIA Joint Syndicate

III. Problems inherent to its creation

• BLUE MED FAB, Mediterranean cornerstone of an
• efficient single sky
• Cristiano CANTONI, BLUE MED Project Manager, ENAV CNS/ATM Experimental Centre
• Thales is ready to prepare ATM’s future and to invest
  in SESAR
  Jean-Loup PICARD, THALES Senior Vice President Strategy, Research & Technology
• Defining quantified performance criteria for the
  navigation system, a necessary prerequisite
  Jean-François VIVIER, President of the Performance Review Commission (PRC)
  Xavier FRON, Head of the Performance Review Unit, Eurocontrol
• A Global and Industrial Perspective to the Single
  European Sky Implementation
  Paolo CARMASSI, President, Honeywell Aerospace EMEAI
• Integrating ATC, Airlines and Airports through integrated
  IP based communications – a key enabler for the
  Single European Sky
  Akhil SHARMA, Director Air Traffic Management, SITA
• Towards an integrated EU approach on aviation
  system capacity
  Olivier JANKOVEC, Director General, ACI EUROPE (Airports Council International)