The Transport Select Committee have announced an inquiry into Airspace Management and Modernisation. Further details can be found here. Deadline for submissions is Friday 31 March 2017.
The Committee is particularly interested to receive submissions addressing some or all of the following:
- The role of Government in facilitating improvements to the airspace
- The need for modernisation, in terms of the economic and environmental sustainability benefits, and the risks for the aviation industry and wider economy from maintaining the current airspace structures
- The essential changes that need to be made to UK airspace, particularly those associated with the development of an additional runway in the South East
- Progress of the Civil Aviation Authority’s Future Airspace Strategy in achieving its core objectives of reducing congestion, improving safety and taking advantage of new technologies to enable a more efficient airspace system