Enav, here are plans and turmoil
The announcements of the ENAV company controlled by the Treasury and the union grumbling. What happens in the company that controls air traffic
The first fully digitalized control tower with human but remote control was inaugurated on 13 June at Brindisi airport. An innovation by ENAV, the company that controls air traffic in the Italian skies, built with the latest technology. The new technology, within 8 years, should be implemented in about half of the 45 Italian airports . of the tower of Brindisi. "In this way we will be able to offer a more efficient and flexible service all year round, even to small airports that are usually closed at night, favoring the needs of the territories without increasing costs", said Paolo Simioni , CEO of ENAV (companycontrolled by the Ministry of Economy).
ENAV: 350 MILLION EUROS OF INVESTMENTS IN THREE YEARS
In the next three years, ENAV plans to invest 350 million euros , to reach one billion in 2031. This capital injection will also have an impact on hiring: ENAV will need over 400 professionals.
BRINDISI AND PADOVA THE HUBS OF REMOTE CONTROL
The first step of the organization's investment and renewal plan hinges on remote control. In the reorganization of the national airspace, ENAV plans to centralize route control in Rome and Milan and Padua and Brindisi will instead be the two hubs dedicated to the management, through remote towers, of 26 airports . The remotization "is a great opportunity and a tangible contribution of ENAV to the modernization of the" airspace "infrastructure, necessary to favor the development of even small airports in the broader context of an indispensable network to guarantee the mobility of people and goods in the Country ”, added lSimioni.
D-FLIGHT: THE FUTURE OF DRONES HAS ARRIVED
D-Flight is a company created by ENAV for the development and management of the U-Space platform, the airspace dedicated to drones. D-Flight, owned by Leonardo and Telespazio, is a dedicated company dedicated to the management of safety and control of drones. In Italy, as reported by Il Messaggero , there are about 120,000 users registered on the D-Flight platform for the use of drone services. With a very high rate of growth: about 1,000 new subscribers per week Furthermore, the drone market is constantly growing , it is estimated that in 2026 it will reach 34 billion dollars, of which about one billion in our country. After all , the uses of drones are many: from aerial shots to inspections, up to the transport of goods and, in perspective, also of people with drones . At the moment D-Flight is able to monitor movements in the Italian sky, distinguishing authorized flights from unauthorized ones, reporting everything to the police (as it did in cases of unauthorized drones during the Vasco Rossi concert in Trento or in the Imola Formula 1 GP).
THE PROTESTS OF THE TRADE UNIONS
While appreciating the investment plan and the prospects for the near future, the trade unions FILT CGIL and FIT CISL issued a statement in which they denounce "the persistence of the very serious concern and uncertainty in which the workers of the Area Control Center are forced to work ( ACC) of Brindisi , due to the company's determination to confirm, with the Industrial Plan 2022-2024, the transfer of the Flight Assistance and Air Traffic Control Services from Brindisi to Rome ". The accusation is that he did not listen to the requests of the trade unions and the Puglia Region. " Closing the ENAV plant of greatest excellence in the South , rather than strengthening it at a time when, in compliance with national and European guidelines, greater investments should be planned in the South, to help reduce historical inequalities (PNRR), it is clear that company policy is extraneous to the country's policy and also to the European one ”.
This manifestation of discontent is added to the 12-hour strike , called last June 8 by the UGL-TA and UNICA trade unions at the Milan area control center.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/enav-ecco-piani-e-subbugli/ on Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:34:40 +0000.