The CANSO Air Traffic Management Podcast

How did French ANSP DSNA keep its operations running and airspace open when wildfires struck in South-West France at the end of July? Johnny Pring discusses with Guillaume Blandel, DSNA's COO, the threats to Bordeaux's main airport and the neighbouring Area Control Centre (ACC), DSNA's approach to crisis management, the dedication of the air traffic controllers (ATCOs) and air traffic safety engineers (ATSEPs) and the long-term lessons learned for resilience.

ICAO has set a hard deadline: by 2034, every country must retire its old paper-style flight plans for fully digital data exchange. In this episode, we sit down with Nguyen Manh Tung, Director of the CNS Department at VATM, Vietnam's air navigation service provider, to hear how Vietnam went from passive observer to regional leader on this transformation, and what it means for the future of air travel in the region.

In this episode of the CANSO Air Traffic Management Podcast we spoke to Kjartan Briem, CEO of Iceland's ANSP, AVIANS. Kjartan talks about the rebranding and restructuring of the company as it formed its own entity and brand while remaining part of Isavia.

In the face of geopolitical tensions in Eastern European, how do air navigation services providers cooperate with the military to manage national airspace and deal with identified risks and threats? To learn about this, Johnny Pring of CANSO Europe speaks with:
Saulius Batavičius, CEO of Lithuanian ANSP Oro Navigacija, about unauthorised airspace entrants
Adrian Florea, COO of Romanian ANSP ROMATSA, about GNSS interference
Łukasz Godlewski, Airspace Management Office Director of Polish ANSP PANSA, about Flexible Use of Airspace

In this latest episode of The CANSO Air Traffic Management Podcast, First Fruits Consultants Josh Gilmore and Jacob Anderson take a look at Safety Culture, and introduce the new Safety Culture Dashboard.