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the business case for airlines,
trying to show them that if
they invest in new technology,
the benefits will be greater
than their investment.’
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The Single European Sky ATM Research
(SESAR) program will need public money
to assist operators in equipping for new
capabilities, according to the head of the
management organization overseeing the
development phase.
The European Commission will propose to
the Parliament and Council of the European
Union (EU) this year who should manage
the SESAR deployment phase, which is
scheduled to begin in 2015, and how it
should be funded. Airlines are pushing to
have the 27-state European government
fund a substantial amount of that cost, said
Patrick Ky, executive director of the SESAR
Joint Undertaking (SJU).
“We think that it will be necessary to
have public money used in order to provide
incentives for airlines or for Air Navigation
Service Providers to equip early for SESAR
technologies,” said Ky, speaking March 9 at
the ATC Global conference in Amsterdam.
“We have already started to lobby to have
SESAR on the radar scope of the EU budgetary discussions which are starting now for
the budget which will cover the EU operations between 2014 and 2021.”
Courtesy SESAR JU
The SESAR JU is managing SESAR’s development phase, which is now in progress
with some 220 of 300 projects initiated. The
organization has a budget of € 2.1 billion
over eight years. The average project lasts
four years, Ky said.
“We really launched the technical activi-
ties on the third of June of 2009,” he said.
“From virtually zero persons working on the
program, we’ve arrived today at something
like 1,400 people working on SESAR, and
we are expecting that by 2011 we will have
3,000 people working on the project. It’s a
huge program.”
At this writing, the European Commission
and FAA were negotiating a memorandum
of cooperation to ensure interoperability of
SESAR with the NextGen effort in the United
States. This will provide “a legal framework,
an institutional framework in which we need
to work,” Ky said. “As soon as we have that
available, we will work at the technical level
between us and FAA.”
The overall cost of SESAR is estimated
at € 35 billion, with airlines incurring € 20
billion to equip or retrofit for new operational
capabilities. European militaries will spend
another € 7 billion and airports and ground
services the balance.
“We are currently working on the busi-
ness case for SESAR for the airlines, trying
to show to them that if they invest in new
technology, the benefits will be greater than
their investment,” Ky said. “... If we find a
way to have a funding mechanism which
ensures that we can have this investment
made, and then the return on investment
comes at a later stage, then maybe we’ll
have a safe way to implement this. We are
currently working on it. It’s not easy.”
Similarly challenging will be bringing
multiple European militaries into line with
the next-generation operating environment.
