Half of European flights hit by capacity-management glitch
Pan-European air navigation authority Eurocontrol expects normal network management operations to resume late April 3, after a failure of the crucial Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System. The ETFMS balances traffic demand over the European network against available capacity of air traffic control sectors. It achieves this by using flight plan information, filed through a flight plan processing system by aircraft operators, to calculate demand. The ETFMS has a slot-allocation function to ensure that the capacity is available to meet the demand. But a failure in this system meant that flight plans filed before 10:26UTC April 3 were lost, forcing aircraft operators to refile all flight plans for aircraft that had not already departed. <br/>
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Half of European flights hit by capacity-management glitch
Pan-European air navigation authority Eurocontrol expects normal network management operations to resume late April 3, after a failure of the crucial Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System. The ETFMS balances traffic demand over the European network against available capacity of air traffic control sectors. It achieves this by using flight plan information, filed through a flight plan processing system by aircraft operators, to calculate demand. The ETFMS has a slot-allocation function to ensure that the capacity is available to meet the demand. But a failure in this system meant that flight plans filed before 10:26UTC April 3 were lost, forcing aircraft operators to refile all flight plans for aircraft that had not already departed. <br/>
