Projects and development

Before the pandemic, Finland had the best international connections in northern Europe. Our customers principally expect air traffic in Finland to run smoothly and without delays and interruptions, but they also expect our services to be competitive.

Operators in air navigation services and elsewhere in the aviation industry must explore ways to improve the quality and efficiency of services in the post-pandemic environment. Our strategic projects excellently reinforce and promote our efforts in respect of these and all other goals set for us. Our solutions for improving competitiveness include introducing Multi Remote Operating Towers (MROT), pursuing closer cooperation with other air navigation service providers (FINEST project) and addressing administration of a Low Altitude Airspace Management network.

Investments in digital service development in air navigation services are increasing year on year. The aim is to create a one-stop shop for services for pilots or other operators. There are aviation services that have been available online for a while, such as aeronautical information services (ais.fi) and air traffic obstacle consultation service. For drone pilots, we offer registration services, guidance and processing of flying permits.

Shortly, we will increase our range of digital airspace use services, with a situational picture of the airspace and flight preparation services becoming available. Then, real-time information, such as weather data, airport services and opening hours, and any airport maintenance work or exceptional circumstances that may affect flying, can be found in one place. Pilots will also be able to check airspace reservations with the aid of a digital map. This will enable them to choose a safe route.

We also intend to further process the data we produce and process in accordance with the mandate given to Fintraffic as a whole by the government in order to further develop digital services in the transport sector.

Most environmentally friendly airspace in Europe

We do many things in our day-to-day work to make air traffic in Finland as environmentally friendly as possible. One of our basic duties is to ensure compliance with the environmental permit requirements for aircraft noise.

Route optimisation, continuous descent approaches and close international cooperation are ways of reducing emissions. Aerodromes in our network always optimise approaches, and our continuous descent approaches at Helsinki-Vantaa are among the best in Europe (source: CANSO).

In addition to the above, we have entered into a unique collaboration with Finnair, the national airline, to leverage data integration to perform analyses to foster improved environmental efficiency in air traffic. This collaboration is called "Perfect flight".