The Spanish Business Public Entity “Entidad Pública empresarial ENAIRE”, hereinafter referred to as “ENAIRE”, is the company belonging to the Public Works Department that provides air navigation services in Spain. It renders aerodrome control services at 21 airports, including the busiest in terms of air traffic, plus en-route and approach control, from five control centres: Barcelona, Madrid, Gran Canaria, Palma and Seville, being one of the major Air Navigation Service Providers in Europe. In 2018 ENAIRE handled 2.1 million flights to and from four continents (Europe, America, Asia and Africa), transporting 300 million passengers.

ENAIRE´s main goal, as air navigation services provider, is to offer maximum safety, quality and efficiency in the development and operation of the Spanish air navigation system. Also, as the fourth largest provider of air navigation services in Europe, it plays a leading, active role in all European Union projects relating to the introduction of the Single European Sky.

The functions of ENAIRE are:

    • The planning, management, coordination, operating, preservation and administration of air traffic, telecommunications services and aeronautical information as well as infrastructures, facilities and communications networks for the air navigation system. All of this with the aim of ensuring aircraft moving around Spanish airspace obtaining the utmost security, fluidity, efficiency and punctuality.
    • The preparation and approval of various types of project, as well as the implementation and management of investment control.
    • The evaluation of the needs and proposals for new infrastructures, as well as possible modifications to airspace planning.
    • Participation in specific aeronautical training and subject to the awarding of official licences.

These services are provided from the five Air Navigation Regional Directorates: Centro Norte, Este, Canarias, Sur and Baleares, with headquarters located respectively in the Air Traffic Control Centres of Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla and Gran Canaria, and the terminal area control centre of Palma de Mallorca.

ENAIRE is a major European company in ATM, R&D and project management in the field of Airspace and Air Navigation and a founding member of the A6 alliance, which represents the ANSPs common view within SESAR Programme.

ENAIRE has already been an active part of SESAR Programme from the very beginning and has substantially contributed as a SJU member in the different fields of airport and air navigation services management, planning and provision, and other ATM R&D related activities, in order to support the cooperative accomplishment of the European ATM Target Network and the associated European ATM Master Plan. As a quantitative illustration of this commitment, the more than ninety SESAR projects in which ENAIRE has been involved up in SESAR 1, and the 19 projects in which is currently participating in SESAR 2020 could be mentioned..

As a services provider and also as owner of related systems and infrastructure, proactive promoter of research and development activities which are at the leading edge and highly experienced executor of validation and system integration processes, ENAIRE provides to the SJU activities a great added value based in the large set of available assets:

    • Up to 5 En-route/TMA ATC centres, covering both Continental and Oceanic Airspaces, fitted with an advanced and evolving ATM system (SACTA and in the future iTEC). Four of them, those covering the Continental Spanish Airspace, interconnected and working as a network;
    • Platforms are able to assume validations and simulations in a wide range of maturity levels, covering from the more immature phases of the R&D till complex simulations using both industrial products and also prototypes;
    • ATCOs from different ACC’s, who are familiar with traffics, contingencies and events of multiple characteristics; and also from towers of different categories;
    • Engineers/ATCOs with vast expertise on the definition of future CNS and ATM; Paving the way for deployment of mature concepts, especially those included in the PCP, will constitute a paramount and permanent priority for ENAIRE.

Finally, ENAIRE has actively participated since many years ago in R&D activities belonging to 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programme projects with EC and GSA, TEN-T projects and SJU projects, and has performed several demonstrations related to RPAS, two of them under SJU framework.