The Airspace Change Organising Group (ACOG) has published its expected report, Remobilising the Airspace Change Programme which highlights the impact of COVID-19 on the current airspace modernisation programme and sets out key recommendations to remobilise the national programme of airspace change. It highlights that a shortage of funding and uncertainty surrounding the programme is putting at risk the national benefits that upgrading the UK’s airspace would deliver. In a joint statement by the Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority immediately accepted recommendations 1, 2 and 4 in the ACOG report and went onto the say they understood the impact of the pandemic on the sector and its ability to progress with modernisation, but asserted their continued commitment, as co-sponsors, to airspace modernisation.
Link 1: https://www.ourfutureskies.uk/latest-news/2020/acog-remobilising-airspace-change-report/
