In April I attended the annual IATA Ops Conference in Ottowa, where we were able to share a vision for transatlantic flights in 2025, jointly developed by us at NATS and the Canadian air traffic service, NAV CANADA. The video we produced is aimed at an aviation audience but hopefully it gives any viewer an idea of the huge amount of work that we’re doing with NAV CANADA to transform transatlantic operations to make it safer, cleaner and far more efficient.

Today, the aviation industry faces the combined impacts of limited runway capacity, airspace congestion, a lack of weather resilience and outdated ATC processes that demand more fuel burn than otherwise could be achieved. The simple truth is that the fulfilment of new aircraft orders will only make this worse.