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DFS business units
The business units of DFS have to perform a number of different tasks. Controlling air traffic from the towers and control centres is the core business. Apart from performing these day-to-day activities, DFS also develops air traffic management systems, surveillance systems and navigation aids. DFS compiles flight-related data and uses it in its products and services, such as aeronautical maps and charts and its pre-flight information service. In its Academy, DFS trains a large number of new air traffic controllers every year. In addition, DFS shares its know-how with other companies by providing consultancy services. DFS has the following business units: Control Centre The task of the business unit Control Centre is to guide aircraft safely through German airspace. Air traffic controllers in the radar control centres coordinate approximately 2.9 million aircraft movements every year. The term aircraft movement is used to describe the take-offs and landings by aircraft at German airports and overflights which are also guided safely through German airspace by the air traffic controllers of DFS. At its Headquarters in Langen, near Frankfurt, DFS operates the largest radar control centre in Europe. It also has control centres in Bremen, Karlsruhe and Munich. DFS staff also work in the EUROCONTROL Centre in Maastricht. Tower The business unit Tower ensures that air traffic at German airports is handled safely and punctually. Approximately two million take-offs and landings are controlled by DFS air traffic controllers at German airports every year. Throughout Germany, DFS is represented by DFS staff at 16 international airports and at nine regional airports by its subsidiary The Tower Company. Regional airports have become more and more important over the past few years. The three largest regional airports of Dortmund, Paderborn and Hahn, for example, are handling more flights today than the international airports of Erfurt or Saarbrücken. DFS has adapted to this shift in market share and is well prepared to provide air navigation services at other regional airports. Aeronautical Solutions In addition to its long experience in providing air navigation services, DFS has more than 40 years of expertise in developing, implementing and operating technical air navigation services facilities. The business unit Aeronautical Solutions draws on its operational, technical and organisational knowledge. Its staff conduct surveys and advise customers all over the world on issues such as system design and implementation, organisational and operational plans, as well as financing. Customers rely on the invaluable experience of DFS concerning its corporatisation and civil-military integration. In the field of training ANS personnel and other specialist operations staff, the business unit provides courses for its customers at the DFS Academy and at the customers’ premises around the world. DFS even offers customised training solutions. Furthermore, the business unit markets and sells aeronautical publications and products, such as the AIP Germany and aeronautical maps and charts for Germany and Europe. Aeronautical Information Management DFS compiles and publishes precise aeronautical data and uses them in its numerous aeronautical publications. The company also performs efficient aeronautical information services. The business unit Aeronautical Information Management produces and publishes aeronautical publications and products, such as the AIP Germany and aeronautical maps and charts for Germany and Europe. It provides all data and information required for air traffic. The Aeronautical Information Service Centre (AIS-C) provides DFS customers with all of the information they need for their flights. This includes filing a flight plan before the pilot takes off, and providing NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) concerning temporary changes in conditions or procedures, the timely knowledge of which is essential to safe flight operations. The AIS-C also handles requests for the special use of airspace, such as mass ascents of balloons and sky lanterns. State-of-the-art systems are used to compile, prepare and distribute data and information via various communication channels.
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