Rob Sharp has received praise in the industry for steadying the organisation after it faced criticism it allowed too many air traffic controllers to leave during COVID.
The Canberra-based firm, which hopes to launch a space-based air traffic control system, will collaborate with institutions such as RMIT, Curtin and UNSW on the positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) system.
Starting 28 November, air traffic controllers will increase the use of Simultaneous Opposite Direction Parallel Runway Operations (SODPROPS), which would allow more flights to take off and land over Moreton Bay rather than populated areas of Brisbane.
Airservices has asked for a weighted 6 per cent price rise in 2024–25, a significant drop from its initially planned four price increases between April 2024 and January 2026, which would have between them raised the weighted average prices by 19 per ce…
The memorandum of understanding will see Wisk, a subsidiary of Boeing, and Airservices collaborate and share expertise on autonomous air mobility, with an estimated 1 million air taxi flights per year expected by 2043. Wisk is aiming to have air taxis …
In its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for September 2024, Airservices pointed to favourable weather conditions as one factor in the reduction of total ground delay hours over the month of September.
Under the three-year deal with Airways International, the commercial arm of Airways New Zealand, Airservices will trial the TotalControl mobile training simulator, including Airways staff acting as pilots for remote instruction.
While total ground delays were up 33 per cent during the month, most of these were due to weather issues including crosswinds at Sydney and low visibility events in Brisbane and Melbourne, and just two per cent were attributable to Airservices.