Only through innovation and trustworthy partnerships will we be able to reconcile our customers’ and partners’ interests with the challenges of today’s and tomorrow’s society.
Vision
Building a more efficient, resilient and sustainable ATM
A paradigm shift in Europe’s Air Traffic Management (ATM) is required to support both manned and unmanned aviation with the least possible environmental impact and lower costs while enhancing our ability to become more resilient and adapt rapidly to changes in traffic demand.
Our overarching vision 2035 is showing us the way, describing how we see the world of Air Traffic Management in Switzerland evolve by this time.
With the virtualisation of the technical systems and the rationalisation of the airspace, Air Traffic Management becomes location independent (for Skyguide, this means that we have the operational and technical capability to manage any piece of Swiss airspace from any working position in Geneva or Dübendorf under normal conditions) and the supporting systems are no longer monolithic and locked, but service-orientated, open and resilient.
We create a complementary system with the Swiss Air Force, ensuring that we have the best and most efficient “System Switzerland”. We utilise synergies and avoid duplications as much as possible, whilst still ensuring national sovereignty and the capability to manage the whole of the airspace from within Switzerland if this necessity were to occur.
We are customer focused, and have innovation capacity and a business mindset, while always giving due priority to safety. Through automation of a significant number of tasks, Air Traffic Managers will in the future be licensed on tools and not sectors, providing us flexibility to react to traffic demand. They will communicate with the cockpit only by exception and no “air traffic control” as such will be exercised in the upper airspace any more – the free route airspace will be truly free.
Unmanned air vehicles are disruptors and push towards Air Traffic Management of mixed airspace (manned/un-manned), based on a high degree of automation, with the human air traffic manager at its core. Skyguide and its partner companies are recognised as leading U-Space service providers, a position which Skyguide achieves by being customer focused, reactive to new needs, and collaborative with key actors.
We are building a service-orientated architecture and a small number of long-lasting strategic partnerships with well-selected like-minded Air Traffic Management providers and industry providers, which allow us to buy services where it makes sense, instead of producing everything in-house.