Northern European countries are proposing a radical redefining of Europe’s future airspace that could see UK air navigation services (ANS) split into two.

Members of the Northern Upper Area Control Functional Airspace Block (FAB) - which includes Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, among others - will present their vision of consolidated northern European services at this week’s ATC Global air traffic control and management event in Amsterdam.

Speaking in Stockholm last week, Thomas Allard, chief executive of Sweden’s ANS, said the northern FAB members were proposing wrapping half of UK air navigation services into their own - segmenting on the basis of service characteristics rather than actual airspace, and therefore not risking any controversial regulatory or sovereignty issues, in an effort to fulfil Europe’s Single European Sky (SES) initiative.

“We want to create areas where our customers want the services,” says Allard, adding that UK

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