CANSO in Asia Pacific
The Asia Pacific region is the world’s largest aviation market with one of the highest growth rates in the world. Faced with the challenges of rapid growth in air traffic, the CANSO Asia Pacific region was established in 2008 with a vision of a safe, seamless and harmonised airspace across the region.
Efforts to transform ATM performance in the region are focused on increasing collaboration across borders to maximise the opportunities presented by technology advances, especially in the areas of digitalisation, virtualisation and the management of new airspace users.
Taking bold actions for regional ATM through digital solutions
The CANSO Asia Pacific Conference 2024 will be held in Chengdu, China on 8-11 July, kindly hosted by Air Traffic Management Bureau, CAAC (ATMB).
Following the successful discussions held last year in Bali, Indonesia, the CANSO Asia Pacific Conference 2024 will focus on the recommendations published in the Asia Pacific ATM White Paper earlier this year.
Among the range of subjects we’ll discuss will be:
- The benefits of digital solutions such as managed services
- Examples of industry facilitating sharing
- The potential for greater use of virtualisation
- The readiness of regional ANSPs to meet requirements of the Asia Pacific Seamless ANS Plan and advanced requirements like SWIM, FF-ICE, TBO
- The implications of gaps between air traffic demands and capacity, and the possibility of widening gaps between regions
- The readiness of ANSPs to accept new procurement methods such as that conducted for the Common Aeronautical VPN
- The producer of Airspace World, CANSO is the sole truly global voice of airspace and its ANSP members support 90 per cent of the world’s airspace, while its associate members are at the forefront of developing the technology that will drive the integration of manned and unmanned flight.
- CANSO’s significance as the global voice of airspace is illustrated by its official observer status at ICAO and its participation in ICAO’s panels and other activities, and by its membership of NATO’s Aviation Committee.
- CANSO was the instigator and creator of the Complete Air Traffic System’s Global Council – an independent innovation forum for leaders across the entire aviation industry to create and align on a unifying blueprint for our future skies.
- The CATS Global Council’s aim is to facilitate greater collaboration among leaders across the aviation and aerospace industries: ANSPs, UTM service providers, aircraft manufacturers, drone operators and manufacturers, high-tech companies, airlines, airports, regulatory authorities, space agencies and research bodies to shape future skies.
- In 2021, the CATS Global Council published its vision for the skies of 2045. In 2022, the Council set out a pathway to get there with a roadmap of long-term goals, actions and milestones to deliver its vision. Airspace Asia Pacific will play a key part in delivering that vision.