ENAIRE - Spain

Mission

ENAIRE's mission is to provide air navigation services to satisfy the needs of customers and society overall with safety, quality, efficiency and respect for the environment, enabling the seamless development of air transport in Spain.

Vision

We want to be leaders in the safe, efficient, quality and sustainable provision of air-navigation services in a global and competitive environment, with good standing among our customers and society, where our people are the driving engine of the company.

Values

• Commitment to society: safety is our priority and we are committed to the development of environmentally sustainable solutions.
• Customer-oriented: quality is our trademark; we provide efficient and effective services that deliver on our customers’ needs and expectations.
• Responsibility and teamwork: our people are our strength; together we transform individual ability into collective achievements aimed at common goals.
• Transparency and good governance: integrity is in our character, and our personnel work ethically, honestly, with trust and transparency.

Proactive and innovative: ongoing improvement is our motivation and we act with initiative, promoting innovative solutions.

• 29/04 ENAIRE's Strategic Innovation Plan earmarks over 20 million annually for investment in research, development and innovation through.
• 29/04 ENAIRE, a pioneer in updating its control system to transition toward a flexible airspace
• 26/04 ENAIRE improves operations at the Castellón Airport with new satellite navigation procedures
• 22/04 ENAIRE begins implementing the free route concept in Spain
• 07/04 The Government authorises the installation of 132 new air controller positions with cutting-edge technology for 43 million euros
• 01/04 ENAIRE invests 2.7 million euros in process automation
• 29/03 ENAIRE improves operations at the Girona-Costa Brava Airport with satellite navigation
• 04/02 ENAIRE, the first organisation to be certified to design flight procedures
• 01/02 ENAIRE and COPAC make progress in improving operational safety and sustainability through flight observations
• 18/01 ENAIRE and DSNA meet with EUROCONTROL in Barcelona to consolidate their airspace management
• 18/01 ENAIRE to chair the A6 Alliance in 2022
• 29/12 ENAIRE makes progress in safety, efficiency and sustainability with the expansion of its service certificate to include ADS-B surveillance
• 28/12 ENAIRE launches Green Sky, its new environmental strategy for sustainable aviation
• 15/12 France and Spain successfully controlled a military drone in the same airspace as commercial aircraft
• 09/12 ENAIRE implements operational improvements in the airports of Jerez, Pamplona and A Coruña
• 03/12 ENAIRE announces 90 openings for air traffic controllers today
• 30/11 ENAIRE, EUROCONTROL and IATA hold their tenth conference to promote aviation safety
• 16/11 Raquel Sánchez announces that ENAIRE's charges will remain below those of 2019 to ease the recovery of the air sector, and the hiring of 90 air traffic controllers
• 12/11 ENAIRE meets with the European Network Manager (EUROCONTROL) to coordinate the strategy and changes in air traffic management for the coming summer and the next few years
• 08/11 ENAIRE improves operations at the Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport with new satellite navigation approach procedures
• 03/11 ENAIRE and Vueling create a task force to look for digital solutions to airspace management
• 02/11 ENAIRE, a pioneer in GBAS satellite technology, explains the Madrid-Barajas project
• 28/10 ENAIRE and DSNA France sign a memorandum of understanding on aeronautical information at the World ATM Congress
• 27/10 HRH King Felipe VI visits the ENAIRE stand at the World ATM Congress
• 06/10 ENAIRE improves operations at the San Sebastian Airport with satellite manoeuvres
• 04/10 ENAIRE celebrates "Human Factor Days" to analyse the relationship between technology and personal skills
• 31/08 ENAIRE invests over 8 million euros to digitalise voice and data communications at the Air Traffic Control Centre in the Balearic Islands
• 31/08 ENAIRE invests more than 1.3 million euros in its automated and digital drone management platform (U-Space)
• 11/08 ENAIRE receives the highest possible score in the European aviation safety indicator
• 05/08 ENAIRE applies a special operation throughout the summer to contribute to the recovery of the air transport sector
• 21/07 ENAIRE and EASA meet to discuss ENAIRE's technological projects and to enhance cooperation between the two organisations
• 08/07 The Government approves the digitisation of voice and data communications at ENAIRE's Air Traffic Control Centre in Seville and the Málaga Tower.
• 05/05 ENAIRE incorporates a new and advanced version of its air traffic control system
• 21/04 ENAIRE transfers its U-Space initiatives to GO-DRON, an operational task force for unmanned aviation
• 29/03 Drone operations in Spanish airspace increase by more than 200% in the last year
• 08/03 As part of the initiatives in its improvement plan, ENAIRE is optimising the separation distance between aircraft at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport to increase air traffic management capacity
• 04/03 ENAIRE launches GO-DRON, an operational task force for unmanned aviation
• 23/02 The incident rate in the airspace controlled by ENAIRE has dropped by more than half in the last five years
• 19/02 ENAIRE will invest 127 million euros in 2021 to transform itself technologically and boost the sector's recovery
• 17/02 ENAIRE reorganises its management team to promote its new Strategic Plan in response to the challenges in the sector
• 16/02 ENAIRE successfully completes a simulation of severe unplanned incidents
• 27/01 The ENAIRE Foundation announces a new edition of its awards intended to promote aeronautical culture and encourage visual creation
• 25/01 ENAIRE successfully finishes upgrading its entire air traffic control operational communications network
• 05/01 ENAIRE, sole provider authorised by AESA to provide all air navigation services in any European country
• 30/12 ENAIRE is again drastically lowering its air navigation charges in 2021 to help the sector recover
• 23/12 SESAR presents its "Young ATM and Aviation Researcher" award to CRIDA/ENAIRE engineer Christian Eduardo Verdonk to predicting trajectories in air traffic management environments
• 10/12 ENAIRE is the first essential services operator certified as per the National Security Scheme's highest category
• 07/12 ENAIRE promotes the digital exchange of aviation information in Europe with EUROCONTROL for more streamlined and efficient airspace management
• 30/11 ENAIRE relies on digital control towers to improve efficiency and performance
• 20/11 AENOR recognises ENAIRE for its operational air navigation systems
• 19/11 In 2019, ENAIRE's management practices avoided the consumption of 95,000 tonnes of fuel and the emission of 298,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere
• 16/11 ENAIRE leads a workshop to promote aviation safety with EUROCONTROL and IATA
• 11/11 ENAIRE spurs innovation at the control tower of the Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport
• 03/11 ENAIRE will increase its investment by 26% in 2021, with safety, efficiency and sustainability being its main goals
• 28/10 ENAIRE presents its mobile application for flying drones safely
• 10/08 ENAIRE is placing a new radar in service in La Coruña at a cost of over one million euros
• 29/05 ENAIRE remotely validates a feature of the SACTA-iTEC system for the first time
• 23/04 The European Commission selects seven ENAIRE projects to forge ahead with the Single Sky
• 21/04 ENAIRE coordinates drone flights conducted by law enforcement agencies related to the COVID-19 pandemic
• 03/04 ENAIRE gives priority to flights carrying medical supplies and to repatriation operations
• 27/03 ENAIRE, internationally recognised with the Sustainability Award at the 2020 Maverick Awards
• 18/11 Saura focuses on sustainable and safe air transport mobility at the opening of ENAIRE's Strategic Workshop
• 07/11 ENAIRE hosts an international meeting to restructure European airspace
• 07/10 First validation test of Galileo's remote ELT activation service
• 03/10 ENAIRE hosts an international congress on human factors and automation
• 02/10 ENAIRE allocates 1.8 million euros to the CRAMI system that allows the retransmission of data for air traffic control
• 27/09 ENAIRE and the ICAO sign a collaboration agreement to develop the Air Navigation Services Management Programme
• 18/09 Saura presides over the first public demonstration of drone integration in airspace
• 29/08 Over 700 air traffic controllers and ENAIRE technical staff in Gran Canaria collaborate to extinguish the fire on the island
• 23/08 ENAIRE allocates 12 million euros to create a service and monitoring centre for its network
• 22/07 The DOMUS consortium completes the first Uspace drone demonstration in Spain
• 11/04 EUROCONTROL recognises ENAIRE's management with the chairmanship of its Operations Committee
• 14/03 ENAIRE signs the Local Plan for Single European Sky implementation on the 25th anniversary of its creation
• 11/03 ENAIRE showcases the most advanced air traffic control position at the World ATM Congress 2019
• 02/03 Ábalos inaugurates ENAIRE's new Terminal Area Control Centre in Valencia
• 09/03 ENAIRE welcomes the signing of the Single European Sky local implementation
• 09/03 The AEFMP initiative to harmonise air navigation services moves forward with the incorporation of Tunisia
• 08/03 IATA and ACETA to Cooperate to Strengthen Spanish Air Navigation Strategy with ENAIRE
• 07/03 iTEC Partners and EUROCONTROL to Jointly develop Interoperability Capabilities Essential for a Single European Sky