Obama has previously proposed tax increases on the private jet industry. In his 2013 budget, he called for fees up to $100 per take-off for private jets, claiming that the fees could generate up to $7.4 billion over the next ten years. Unfair or necessary?

Skyguide, Switzerland’s air navigation service provider, is introducing ten more-direct transit routes through its airspace which would save around 1,000 kilometres of flight per day.

As the first international project since the opening of the Center of Research, Development and Simulation (CRDS) of the Hungarian ANSP (HungaroControl) a real-time simulation started for the Croatian ANSP with the aim of validating airspace proposals for capacity increase.