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Statement on the ETFMS outage on 3 April

4 April 2018

At present, we are carrying out a full investigation regarding the outage, the implementation of the contingency procedure and the recovery phase, in...

Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System (ETFMS) outage - official statement

3 April 2018

EUROCONTROL very much regrets the disruption that has been caused to passengers and airlines due to today’s outage of the Enhanced Tactical Flow...

Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System outage - situational update

3 April 2018

The issue with the ETFMS system has been identified and action is underway to return to normal operations. However, flight plans filed before 10.26...

23 March 2018

Celebrating World Meteorological Day 2018

Today, we join the international community in celebrating World Meteorological Day 2018 - and to promote the need for more widespread collaboration...

Network Manager handles record levels of traffic in 2017

2 January 2018

Last year EUROCONTROL as Network Manager handled 10.6 million flights, or the equivalent of over 29,000 flights per day, marking a 4.4% increase over...

Deployment of Free Route Airspace in the core area of Europe on the fast track

11 December 2017

EUROCONTROL’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) has started operating user-preferred trajectories above FL245. This is the first of three...