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Lufthansa defines the Boeing 747-8 as a long-haul airliner. David W. Wragg classifies air services as medium-haul being between 1,600–4,000 km; 900–2,200 nmi; short-haul as being shorter and long-haul as being longer. [11] David Crocker defines short-haul flights as shorter than 1,000 km (540 nmi), [12]: 208 and long-haul as the opposite.
Maastricht Aachen Airport (IATA: MST, ICAO: EHBK) is a major cargo hub and regional passenger airport in Beek in Limburg, the Netherlands, located 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) northeast of Maastricht [2] and 15 NM (28 km; 17 mi) northwest of Aachen, Germany. [3] It is the second-largest hub for cargo flights in the Netherlands.
Eurocontrol's Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC), ICAO designator EDYY, [6] located at Maastricht Aachen Airport, provides air traffic control for traffic above 24,500 ft over Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and north-west Germany. In 2017 it became the first multinational, cross-border, civil-military, air navigation service ...
An RA occurs on average every 1,000 flight hours on short/medium-haul aircraft and every 3,000 hours for long-haul aircraft. In its December 2017 ACAS guide, Eurocontrol found in about 25% of the cases, the pilots follow the RA inaccurately.
The flight plan was in accordance with long-established standards. ... gets a call from Eurocontrol saying flight movements in the UK would be limited to 60 per hour – rather than the usual 800 ...
Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) is a joint initiative that aims to improve the operational efficiency of all airport operators. It is a joint venture between ACI EUROPE , EUROCONTROL , International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO).
A transit hotel is a short-stay hotel that is situated in the transit zone of international airports, where passengers on extended waits between planes (typically a minimum of six hours) can stay while waiting for their next flight. The hotel is within the airside security/passport checkpoints and close to the airport terminals. [1]
The Single European Sky (SES) is a European Commission initiative that seeks to reform the European air traffic management system through a series of actions carried out in four different levels (institutional, operational, technological and control and supervision) with the aim of satisfying the needs of the European airspace in terms of capacity, safety, efficiency and environmental impact.