The three critical components of the National Airspace System - communications, navigation, and surveillance -- must be modernized if we are to maintain the world's largest, safest, and most efficient air transportation system.
While the basic design of the U.S. air traffic control system dates back to the 1950s, this design promises to present ever-growing concerns as demand for system capacity continues to rise.
ATA member airlines support a transition to an ADS-B surveillance system. Find out more about how it works and why FAA considers it the cornerstone of their Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS).
ATA Vice President, Operations and Safety Basil Barimo contributed an article entitled "Shaping the Future ATC System" in a recent issue of the Flight Safety Foundation magazine AeroSafety World.
CDA is a stair-stepped approach to an airport requiring planes to descend in steps, significantly reducing fuel burn and emissions, noise, and flight time.
TAs are generated by ATM computers and consider local traffic, weather, terrain, noise restrictions, and the aircraft's own capabilities to obtain an optimal route and an exact touchdown time for arriving aircraft.
SWIM is a future information-management architecture that will manage surveillance, flight and weather data, and other National Airspace System data to all users.
The air traffic system is severely constrained. ATA offers these guiding principles on how the system can keep pace with user demand.
ATA submitted its formal response to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out Performance Requirements to Support Air Traffic Control (ATC) Service.
ATA issued a statement commenting on the FAA Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).
ATA testified before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on the need to increase capacity and reduce congestion in New York-area airspace. ATA denounced the Department of Transportation (DOT) congestion pricing and slot auction proposals that would limit capacity, and urged DOT to stop talking ideology and experiments, and start leaving a legacy that will help, not hurt, this country.