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Air Traffic Alliance becomes a single company
The new company will address the needs of airlines, airports and Air Navigation Services Providers for a seamless and globally interoperable air transport system. It expects to integrate the aircraft, avionics, ground ATM and satellite capabilities of its founding members into a single approach. The new structure is headed by an Executive Committee of four members under the presidency of Lionnel Wonneberger, complemented by the Vice President Marketing and Operations, Christian Dumas, the Vice President Strategy, Soeren Fischer, and the Executive Director Industrial Partnerships, Jean-Claude Richard. "The creation of an integrated management team shows our clear commitment to the Air Traffic Alliance's objectives and the urgent need to address the challenges in the field of air transport system modenisation and harmonisation", said Jean-Louis Gergorin, Executive Vice President Strategic Coordination of EADS. "Now that the Air Traffic Alliance has established concrete proposals and submitted first offers such as those within the 6th Framework Programme, an integrated structure will allow for a much more efficient coordination and management of such programmes." added John Hughes, CEO of Thales Aerospace. "Passengers expect a lot from the air transport industry, with the economy of our world depending very much on getting people where they want to go, when they want to go, in a reliable and economic way, and the Air Traffic Alliance has a key role to play in helping to make this happen," says Airbus Chief Executive Officer Noel Forgeard.
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EADS, AIRBUS and THALES, which founded the Air Traffic Alliance in July 2002, has announced at the Paris Air Show that they are transforming their team into a single company, the Air Traffic Alliance G.l.E. ("Groupement d'interet Economique").