Skyguide slows pace of modernization after system failures
Published: Thursday, Sep 26th 2024, 14:30
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The air navigation service provider Skyguide attributes the accumulation of breakdowns to a modernization process that was pushed ahead too quickly. Because, as Skyguide's Head of Technology Klaus Meier said on Thursday: "We are operating on an open heart, so to speak." This makes the system vulnerable.
According to Meier, a "big bang", i.e. modernization in one go, would have been unrealistic for safety and cost reasons.
The head of technology attributed the numerous glitches that have occurred in recent months to the ongoing modernization process. The undertaking, which cost around 300 million Swiss francs and includes digitalization and the virtual merger of the Geneva and Zurich air traffic control centers, was originally planned to run from 2014 to 2024.
However, skyguide has now moved away from this timetable. "In this safety environment, we underestimated the time horizon," said Meier and assumes that this process will take another ten years. He is still convinced of the path he has taken and that there is no turning back.
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