2nd GATCO-BALPA Controller-Pilot Symposium: airspace modernisation, drones, just culture…
GATCO, the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) and other aviation and ATM stakeholders got together for the 2nd one-day Controller-Pilot Symposium on the 16th of October at the Holiday Inn London Heathrow M4 Jct 4. The event attracted around 65 aviation and ATM professionals and the discussions therein showed the level of interest pilots [...]
GATCO at the 2019 IFATCA European Regional Meeting
GATCO has attended the 2019 International Federation of Air Traffic Control Associations’ (IFATCA) European Regional Meeting (ERM) from the 8th to the 10th October in Aqaba, Jordan. GATCO was represented by President, Luis Barbero; Manager Finance, Richard Eggleton and Olivia May, GATCO/IFATCA Rep. As indicated at last year's ERM, the ATM capacity [...]
NATS Free Route Airspace Deployment 1
Consultation: 17th September 2019 - 10th December 2019. The implementation of Free Route Airspace (FRA) by EU member states was mandated in European Law under the EU Implementing Regulation EU 716/2014. NATS is proposing to introduce FRA across UK airspace in four deployments. The first (Deployment 1), across Scottish Sectors, will allow aircraft in upper [...]
Signature of the declaration on the future of the Single European Sky
On the 11th of September 2019, during the "Digital European Sky - High Level Conference on the Future of the Single European Sky", organised by the European Commission and the Finnish Presidency, 21 aviation stakeholders, including IFATCA and with the collaboration of GATCO, signed the joint declaration on the future of the Single European Sky [...]
2nd Controller-Pilot Symposium – 16th Oct 2019
GATCO and the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) are hosting a one-day Controller-Pilot Symposium on Wednesday 16th of October 2019 at the Holiday Inn London Heathrow M4 Jct 4: Holiday Inn London Heathrow M4 Jct 4 Sipson Rd, Sipson, West Drayton UB7 0HP +44 (0) 871 942 90 95 The event aims [...]
65th GATCO Annual General Meeting – 15th Oct 2019
The 65th GATCO Annual General Meeting will take place on Tuesday 15th of October 2019 at 3:00pm at the Holiday Inn London Heathrow M4 Jct 4: Holiday Inn London Heathrow M4 Jct 4 Sipson Rd, Sipson, West Drayton UB7 0HP Agenda 1. Apologies for Absence 2. Record of Proxy Votes 3. Remembrances [...]
Swiss ATCO conviction – GATCO letter to the Swiss Embassy in the UK
On the 27th of June 2019, The Swiss Federal Supreme Court rejected an appeal by an air traffic controller, convicted of negligent disruption of public transport by the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, for an incident which took place in 2013 and which resulted in no loss of lives and no material damage. The incident [...]