What does SES stand for?

Thinking even bigger, after decades of talks and no action, a Single European Sky (SES) is picking up momentum.

Dec 10, 2008 The Single European Sky (SES) project received support from a European parliamentary committee yesterday (December 9).

Alongside airport capacity, they have other concerns looming, such as finding funds for the EU's single European sky programme, which plans to reduce the 60 air traffic control sites in 24 European states to just one.

In response, Eurocontrol began pressing for the so-called Single European Sky concept, where a centralized traffic management center would coordinate most of the continent's air traffic needs.

Europe currently is pursuing a comparable modernization effort known as Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research.

NATS chief executive Richard Everitt said: ``The new centre will be at the heart of moves towards the single European sky.

Contents: Foreword; Preface; The organisation and operation of European airspace, Marc Baumgartner; The principles of flight planning and ATM messaging, Graham Tanner; Understanding en-route sector capacity in Europe, Arnab Majumdar; The management and costs of delay, Andrew Cook; European ATM and the environment, Victoria Williams; The future of European air transport operations, Nigel Dennis; The single European sky - EU reform of ATM, Ben van Houtte; ATM and society - demands and expectations, Nadine Pilon; Conclusions and a look ahead, Andrew Cook; Appendix, Graham Tanner; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

The system will provide major advantages from day one, he says, but in the long run, as controllers learn to use it to best advantage and all its potential functions are validated, it will be able to fit into the future networked co-operative decision-making systems envisaged under the SESAR programme for the Single European Sky.