What are the main enhancements to the original SES legislation?
• The establishment of performance targets in the fields of safety, capacity, flight and cost efficiency, and the environment. • A European network management function to ensure the convergence of national ATM systems. • A definite commitment date for the EU member states to improve performance by using FABs by 2012. What about the implementation of functional airspace blocks? The FAB concept was developed in the first legislative package of the Single European Sky. It means organizing, integrating and managing the traffic in accordance with the actual needs of the aviation community, thereby enabling optimum use of airspace. Member states will look beyond national borders when assessing the creation of a FAB, justified by its overall added value based on a cost-benefit analysis. Air traffic management in the EU is still organized in a fragmented way. Every time a plane enters the airspace of a member state, it is serviced by a different air navigation service provider on the basis of
