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FABEC in numbers
The Functional Airspace Block Europe Central (FABEC) covers the airspace of six States (Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland) and lies at the heart of Europe. This airspace is one of the busiest and most complex in the world. Most of the largest European airports are located here. The military uses this airspace for its training areas and large civil airlines have their base airports in the FABEC area.
Here are the key data of FABEC:
- A complex and dense ATS route network
- A dimension of 1.7 million km²
- Six million aircraft movements in 2007, corresponding to 55 percent of all European aircraft movements
- Expected traffic growth of 50 percent between 2006 and 2018, corresponding to eight million aircraft movements for 2018
- Approximately 410 military airspaces and areas for special use (e.g. parachute descents)
- Approximately 370 control sectors
- 14 control centres (Brussels, Bordeaux, Brest, Marseille, Paris, Reims, Bremen, Munich, Karlsruhe, Langen, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Geneva and Zürich)
- Approximately 240 airports at which flights under instrument flight rules (IFR) are conducted
- Three large international hubs (Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt) and proximity to the London airports
- Approximately 18,000 employees, including 5,500 air traffic controllers
- Total revenues of all air navigation service providers amounting to more than three billion euro per year (2007)
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