Air safety Skyguide slows pace of modernization after system glitches
The air navigation service provider Skyguide attributes the accumulation of breakdowns to a modernization process that was driven forward too quickly. Because, as Skyguide's Head of Technology Klaus Meier said on Thursday: "We are operating on an open heart, so to speak." This makes the system vulnerable.
26.09.2024, 14:16
SDA
According to Meier, a "big bang", i.e. modernization in one step, would have been unrealistic for safety and cost reasons.
The head of technology also attributed the numerous breakdowns that have occurred in recent months to the ongoing modernization process. The project, which cost around 300 million Swiss francs and includes digitalization and the virtual merger of the Geneva and Zurich air traffic control centers, was originally planned to run from 2014 to 2024.
However, skyguide has now moved away from this schedule. "We underestimated the time horizon in this safety environment," said Meier and assumes that this process will take another ten years. He is still convinced of the path he has taken, and there is no turning back.
