Airservices Australia
Airservices Australia provides safe, secure, efficient, and environmentally responsible air navigation and aviation rescue firefighting services to the aviation industry.
Airservices manages 11 per cent of global airspace, supporting millions of air passenger movements each year.
Their air traffic management team predominantly operates from two major air traffic services centres (in Melbourne and Brisbane) and 29 air traffic control towers across Australia.
Their aviation rescue and firefighting team service 27 of Australia’s busiest airports.
In addition, they also install and maintain a complex network of navigation, communication and surveillance infrastructure right across the country.
Airservices occupies a unique position in Australia’s aviation ecosystem – they work with everyone from large commercial airlines to recreational pilots and, increasingly, operators of new airspace entrants such as unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft.
They are an integral part of the safe aviation sector that is so crucial for Australia – generating economic growth, creating jobs, and facilitating domestic and international trade and tourism.
The future of Airservices Australia is exciting, as they prepare for new airspace entrants into the market. Their role at Airservices is to work with industry to ensure they can open up the skies safely and efficiently to these new airspace users and also prepare adequately for the future. While it is exciting, it makes for a very busy and very complex airspace.
In partnership with other industry leaders, they have several future focused projects currently in train, with their biggest program, OneSKY Australia ™, set to deliver more than $1.2 billion of economic benefit to Australia airspace users over 20 years once completed.
The OneSKY Australia ™ program is the most complex transformation of air traffic management in Australian aviation history. It’s a partnership between Airservices and the Department of Defence, replacing existing air traffic management systems with an advanced integrated system known as the Civil Military Air Traffic Management System (CMATS). OneSKY Australia ™ was established to deliver more efficient air services, support future air traffic growth and enhance national security.
They are also working on an Integrated Airspace Program known as IAP. They are testing, piloting and prototyping potential technical solutions to support new airspace entrants in low and higher altitude airspace. They are focusing on automation, digitisation and maximising efficiencies across the three key areas of 1) Drone Surveillance, 2) Flight Information Management System and 3) Enabling Research including operations in the stratosphere.
