I was delighted last week to see Eamonn Brennan elected to run Eurocontrol, the Europe-wide coordinating body for air traffic control. He takes over in 2018 and is no doubt already working out what his priorities will need to be – because there are a lot.

NATS recently became the first ANSP to establish a modern flight information connection with Eurocontrol for all of the UK’s flight plan related traffic.