The Civil Aviation Authority Director responsible for safety and airspace regulation is to take charge of the group tasked with co-ordinating the modernisation of UK airspace.
Mark Swan, a former RAF fighter pilot, will head the newly created Airspace Change Organising Group (ACOG), which will operate as an independent body within NATS and be responsible for co-ordinating and managing a programme of airspace change projects across 14 airports, as well as the NATS upper airspace project.
