Operator

Perspective: FRA
Implementation
Prashant Sanglikar
Asst. Director – OSS
(SFO) IATA Asia Pacific
sanglikarp@iata.org
1 09 NOV
2023
 Regional Perspective: Asia
Pacific

Source: IATA Sustainability and Economics, using data from

DDS.

2 09 NOV
2023
Operator Perspective: FRA
Implementation
User Expectations

Benefits

Strategies and Case

Studies

3 09 NOV
2023
 User
Expectations:
" Imagine there’s no airways, No fixed routes to
fly No VOR or NDBs, above us only sky
Imagine all the planes filing and flying way they
like

Imagine there’s no H24 SUA, it isn’t hard to do

No reason we can’t fly wherever and how we want
to Imagine all the airspace users living life in
peace

You may say I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only
4
one ! 09 NOV
I hope someday you’ll join us 2023
and the industry will
WHY FRA may going to be the Future of Air Traffic Management?
Benefits

Airspace Capacity,
Efficiency CO2 Emissions Safety

• More availability of routes • Reduces flight distance, • Reduced complexity and

• Higher traffic volumes
flying OPT FLs
• Optimises Routes
• Delay reduction
5 09 NOV
Flying time error- prone manual
intervention in the flight
• Reduces Fuel consumption
planning process
means reduction in CO2
Emissions • Improved and predictable
operations accounting for
• Reduces Operating costs
Adv Weather avoidance
for airlines
2023
FRA Strategies:
Airspace
 SUR & COMM Coverage
 ATM Automation system
 Traffic Density
and Patterns
Oceanic Transition Continental  Day of the
week
 Time of the day
 Aircraft Equipage
 Collaboration with
adjacent FIR

6 09 NOV
2023
FRA Strategies:
Airspace
Oceanic
Upper Airspace COMM &
Adjoining OCC Transition
Coverage SUR
airspace
(COMM & SUR) Traffic:-
Fleet Equipage Volume
Within Flight
ACC Lower Airspace
phases,
Fleet Equipage Upper Airspace
Upper Airspace Traffic:- Volume -
Other state Within State
Traffic:-
Adjoining Regional/Metro
Volume, Flight
Adjoining FIR ,
Phases
FIR Flight phases

7 09 NOV
2023
 FRA
Strategies:

ATM Automation
and
Coverage: SUR

Source: CNS SG
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8 09 NOV
2023
 FRA
Strategies:

Coverage:
COM

Source: CNS SG
/26
9 09 NOV
2023
Case Study – South
Asia
Upper wind patterns in Asia
Pacific

10 09 NOV
2023
UPR Geo Zone: INSPIRE, Oct
2013

11 09 NOV
2023
 FR
Exploring
A Possibilities
Example:
Oceanic Transition
Airspace
 Upgrading airspace
Indian Ocean
UPR Geo class
Zone  Allow Changing FL
 Allow Changing over
to different airways
 Collaboration with
neighboring FIR

12 09 NOV
2023
FRA Exploring Possibilities
Case Study – BoB-AS-IO: Oceanic
Transition

13 09 NOV
2023
FRA Exploring Further
Possibilities Case Study – BOB-
AS-IO: Oceanic

14 09 NOV
2023
 FRA Transformation Example

Past Present

15 09 NOV
2023
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2023
Mongolia – Case Study & Way
Forward

Planning Desk in Sept 2014

17 09 NOV
2023
Mongolia, Air traffic
patterns

18 09 NOV
2023
Mongolia – Case Study, Way
Forward
Opportunities:
 When No known turbulence, during light air traffic:
• Cruise Climb by blocking the airspace between two flight levels;
(i.e. to be at the higher flight level by a certain position or
time?)
• FMS computes OPT climb profile - as the aircraft gets lighter.
• Heavy departures to EU destinations can gain a lot!

Collaboration with airspace users

19 09 NOV
2023
Mongolia – Case Study, Way
Forward
 SWIM: System Wide Information Management
 FF-ICE: Flight Flow Information in a
collaborative environment
 TBO: Trajectory Based Operations

Step by Step, Baby step, one at a time , very firm

20 09 NOV
2023
Operator Perspective: FRA
Implementation
Summary
• Much can be done today
• Consider FRA Strategies
• Explore possibilities
– What can be done
– All the time or Some of the time
– All the airspace or some of the
airspace
– All the FLs or some of the FLs
• Any saving is a benefit
• The savings are accumulative!
21 sanglikarp@iata.org 09 NOV
2023