{"id":708,"date":"2016-06-22T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2016-06-22T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:09:30","slug":"israel-moves-closer-to-eurocontrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/israel-moves-closer-to-eurocontrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel moves closer to Eurocontrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Israel has signed an agreement with Eurocontrol to work\u00a0more closely together in flight planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Air traffic between Israel and Europe has been growing at over 9% a year for the past three years. This growth poses ongoing challenges to international civil aviation and underlines the need to improve ties between regions in order to ensure flight efficiency and safety in airspace and airports that are growing more crowded every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Israel is now the second country to sign the \u201cEurocontrol Comprehensive Agreement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>What does this mean for operators?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The existing\u00a0process is complex and multi-step: flights that\u00a0transit Europe from Israel require filing at least 3 hours in advance to the Tel Aviv Coordination Centre, who then liaise with Eurocontrol to verify that the routing is RAD compliant.\u00a0Changes are often then made by Eurocontrol and back down the line to the operator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The implementation date is to be confirmed, but FPL filing out of Israel will now be the same as for any other European country, with immediate ACK from Eurocontrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other benefits of this agreement are improved crisis management, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">more efficient traffic flows between Israel and Europe, more predictable day to day operations, improved safety and possibly airspace redesign and management.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has signed an agreement with Eurocontrol to work\u00a0more closely together in flight planning. Air&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[480,209,479,451,478,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-item","8":"tag-ack","9":"tag-eurocontrol","10":"tag-flight-plan-filing","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-llbg","13":"tag-tel-aviv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}