Can we really expect our online orders to be delivered by drone within the foreseeable future?

Are you longing to sit and watch Airport Live when you settle in front of your TV, especially during these winter months? If so, we thought you would enjoy re-visiting our favourite clips from the show, which BBC2 has just put live.

NATS employees working at airports face a number of challenges in ensuring they provide a safe and efficient service to their customers. But in few places will they find the sort of daily complexities that are faced at Cardiff Airport.

There was a time when Heathrow would come to a standstill on a daily basis to watch and listen to a very special aircraft, almost as if someone had pressed the pause button on the frantic pace of life at the airport.

Back in August I wrote about why measuring airport capacity means more than just tarmac and terminals. The same is equally true when it comes to increasing capacity.

Since the London Airspace Consultation went live on 15 October 2013, a number of points have been raised from members of the public and interested stakeholders, which we thought we could clarify here, as well as in the FAQ section of the consultation website.

NATS has been working with Aerobility – a flying based charity – on a number of projects over the last couple of years. We were delighted when Mike Miller-Smith, CEO, agreed to write a guest post about Aerobility and highlight the forthcoming Aviator’s Ball.

Recent changes to how we use UK airspace have enabled our airline customers to save an extra 8,000 tonnes of fuel every year. This means 13,000 tonnes of fuel savings have been enabled since April, worth £8.5m to airlines and the equivalent to 41,000 tonnes of CO2.

Last week I took part in the Airport Operations Conference, which had the theme “Airports beyond 2020”, and was involved in a panel discussion focused on the airport role within an integrated seamless global network – far more interesting than its title might initially indicate.

We now operate in more than 30 countries around the world. That includes providing air traffic control services at 15 airports in the UK. We’ve decided to shine a spotlight on those domestic operations and over the next few months we will be bringing you a profile of each of our UK operations. We start today with Stansted.