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AUG 12, 2003 (newstodate): Swiss ATM, skyguide, and the Swiss Air Force have broken new ground towards integrating civil and military air traffic control by starting construction of the new skyguide air navigation center Zurich, at the airport of D�bendorf.
The new center will be partly used from 2005, and will become fully operational by 2007.
The construction of the new regional control center costs 91 million francs.
The new joint building represents an important advance in the amalgamation of civil and military air traffic control functions. Because of the huge increase in air traffic in the past twenty years, the Federal Council decided in 1999 to combine the two types of air
traffic control under the aegis of skyguide.
With the amalgamation, Switzerland's complex airspace can be run more efficiently. On the one hand, skyguide will be able to make more airspace available to civil aviation, and on the other, the Air Force can claim larger, contiguous areas of airspace if necessary.
This flexible management of Swiss airspace will further boost punctuality in civil aviation.
The new center will be partly used from 2005, and will become fully operational by 2007.
The construction of the new regional control center costs 91 million francs.
The new joint building represents an important advance in the amalgamation of civil and military air traffic control functions. Because of the huge increase in air traffic in the past twenty years, the Federal Council decided in 1999 to combine the two types of air
traffic control under the aegis of skyguide.
With the amalgamation, Switzerland's complex airspace can be run more efficiently. On the one hand, skyguide will be able to make more airspace available to civil aviation, and on the other, the Air Force can claim larger, contiguous areas of airspace if necessary.
This flexible management of Swiss airspace will further boost punctuality in civil aviation.