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Langen, 10 November 2010 Shorter night routes in Europe More environmentally friendly and more cost savings As part of the harmonisation of European airspace, shorter night routes are now being offered on 115 cross-border connections. These more environmentally friendly and cost-saving routes were made possible by FABEC (Functional Airspace Block Europe Central), where the air navigation service providers in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland are working on a joint airspace. The goal of FABEC is to offer pilots in European airspace as many direct routes as possible. Today, FABEC has shortened the 115 routes during the night which enables the airlines to save 800,000 nautical miles per year, which corresponds to approximately 1.481 million kilometres. This results in savings of 4,800 tonnes of kerosene and 16,000 tonnes of CO2. It was possible to offer these shorter routes to the airlines due to the fact that air traffic decreases significantly at night and that military training airspaces are also mostly inactive at this time. The shorter routes are particularly beneficial for cargo aircraft, which often operate at night. In Germany, the primary routes that were improved were in upper airspace from and to the cargo hubs in Cologne and Leipzig as well as trans-European connections to the FABEC partners, to Poland, the United Kingdom and southern Europe. To give one example: The routing from the south of France to Cologne was reduced by 36 nautical miles (around 67 kilometres) per flight. The FABEC partners view this first measurable success as confirmation of their intention to press ahead with the harmonisation of European airspace. Not only will this support better routing, but it will also make a significant contribution to environmental protection. For further information please contact: DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH Axel Raab 06103-707-4160 axel.raab@dfs.de FAB Europe Central Roland Beran 00 49 6103 707 4190 Roland.Beran@FABEC.eu FABEC brings together the six States of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland, their civil and military air navigation service providers as well as EUROCONTROL's four-State air traffic control centre in Maastricht. The civil FABEC ANSPs employ a total of 17,700 people. 5,400 are traffic controllers. 55 % of all European traffic takes place in the FABEC area. DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH, the German air navigation service provider, is a State-owned company under private law and has 5,800 employees. DFS ensures the safe and punctual flow of air traffic over Germany. DFS operates control centres in Langen, Bremen, Karlsruhe and Munich. In addition, DFS is represented in the Eurocontrol Centre in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and in the control towers of the 16 international German airports.
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