ENAV

ENAV SpA ; Società Nazionale per l'Assistenta al Volo
legal form	Società per Azioni
ISIN	IT0005176406
founding	January 1, 2001
Seat	Rome , Italy
management	Nicola Maione, ; CEO ; Roberta Neri, CEO ;
Number of employees	4181 (2017)
sales	EUR 882 million (2017)
Branch	Air traffic control , air traffic control
Website	www.enav.it

The ENAV SpA - Società Nazionale per l'Assistenza al Volo ( dt. "National Society for Flight Assistance") is in Italy for the air traffic control responsibility. It is a public limited company that is around 55 percent owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance and overseen by the Ministry of Transport . The company's headquarters are in Rome .

tasks

FIRs and ACCs in Italy

The ENAV was given sovereign tasks by the state . As an air navigation service provider with around 4,200 employees, it is responsible for air traffic control and air traffic management , the flight information service and the aviation weather service, as well as for the operation of civil air navigation systems . There is close cooperation with the military air traffic control of the Italian Air Force , the air traffic control units of other countries and the European Union ( Eurocontrol ) and various international organizations.

The ENAV is responsible for an airspace that extends over 751,742 km². In 2016, around 1.8 million flights were monitored in this airspace. It currently maintains four Area Control Centers (ACC) in Milan , Padua , Rome and Brindisi , which are to be reduced to two by 2022: Milan for northern Italy and Rome for central and southern Italy. For Padua and Brindisi, a restructuring into Remote Tower Centers is planned, from which smaller airports are to be remotely monitored (Remote Tower Control) . ENAV pilots are still present on the control towers of over 40 Italian airports . ENAV has an air traffic control academy at Forlì airport . At Rome Ciampino Airport , it maintains four Piaggio P.180s for flight inspection of air traffic control systems.

history

All civil and military air traffic control in Italy was in the hands of the Italian Air Force until 1979. Due to (illegal) protests by the military air traffic controllers and an intervention by the then President Sandro Pertini , the air traffic controllers entrusted with civilian tasks were initially placed under an air traffic control commission, from which in 1982 the Azienda Autonoma per l'Assistenta al Volo per il Traffico Aereo Generale (AAAVTAG) , an institution under public law , emerged. From this, the public corporation Ente Nazionale per l'Assistenta al Volo (ENAV) emerged in 1996 . On January 1, 2001, this was converted into a stock corporation. As the company name, it kept the abbreviation ENAV, but not the full version, which has now been changed as a subtitle in Società Nazionale per l'Assistenta al Volo . In 2003, proposals for partial privatization emerged for the first time, which largely fell silent in the following years due to legal concerns and also because of the resistance of employees.

In 2007, ENAV acquired Techno Sky srl , which today operates and maintains a large part of the technical air traffic control systems in Italy with around 800 employees. The subsidiary SICTA (Sistemi Innovativi per il Controllo del Traffico Aereo) , founded in 2012, is responsible for research and development. Further subsidiaries were founded in Malaysia and in the USA . For several years, ENAV has been working with the Leonardo company, which manufactures radar and other air traffic control systems. Together they offer integrated air navigation services abroad.

In January 2014, the Italian government decided to partially privatize ENAV. Around 45 percent of the shares were sold in 2016. The ENAV shares are traded on the Milan Stock Exchange.

Company headquarters on Via Salaria in the north of Rome

Web links

Commons : ENAV - collection of images, videos and audio files

ENAV SpA website (Italian, English)

References and comments

↑ enav.it - Management

↑ Annual Financial Report 2017

↑ The associated flight information areas (FIR) were reduced from four to three by merging the FIRs of Milan and Padua (but not their ACCs). The exact locations of the ACCs are Milan-Linate , Abano Terme ("Padua"), Rome-Ciampino and Brindisi-Casale . Three Upper Area Control Centers (UACC) in Padua, Rome and Brindisi are responsible for overflights in the upper airspace above flight level 295 , with Rome taking over the upper airspace above the ACC Milan. ( Territorial organization of ENAV )

↑ Flugrevue article from March 9, 2016 on the topic of Remote Tower Control

↑ ENAV Business Plan 2018–2022 (PDF link at the bottom of the page)

↑ The military background of ENAV is structurally alive to this day. The Italian Air Force ( Regia Aeronautica ) maintained four territorial commandos in Italy until 1943 with headquarters in Milan, Padua, Rome and Bari (near Brindisi). After the Second World War, they were rebuilt by Aeronautica Militare with different names and functions, later reduced in size or dissolved. The ENAV Area Control Centers are still located at these locations today (with a small difference Bari / Brindisi, see Italian Air Force Units in World War II ).

^ The protests of the military air traffic controllers, who were responsible for the control of civil traffic, referred, among other things, to the civil air traffic control authorities of other countries, which were presented as a model. The fact that the Italian approach of the time to bundle the entire air traffic control in one hand was structurally not absurd is proven by the current tendency (for example in Switzerland) to incorporate military air traffic control to a large extent into civil air traffic control for reasons of rationalization or even to integrate it into it. The protests in Italy were more about labor law and financial reasons.