Celebrating innovation, excellence, and achievement in air traffic management at Airspace World 2026 in Lisbon.
Recognising Excellence in ATM
The Seamless Skies Awards have been developed to recognise exceptional achievements in the global air traffic management (ATM) and UAS traffic management (UTM) sectors during 2025. As the individual categories are defined also expect to see new market entrants such as Urban Air Mobility (UAM).
The Seamless Skies Awards celebrate the individuals, teams, and organisations driving progress in global air traffic management. Presented at Airspace World 2026, the awards recognise innovation, leadership, collaboration, and sustainability shaping the skies of tomorrow.
Why Submit Your Entry
- Gain global recognition for your projects and innovations.
- Showcase achievements to ATM leaders, ANSPs, and regulators.
- Enhance your organisation’s profile and credibility.
- Celebrate team excellence and industry leadership.
- Inspire the next generation of aviation professionals.
Award Categories
1
Collaborative operations for sustainable skies
This award recognises successful partnerships between ANSPs, industry, aircraft operators, research organisations, and others to deliver new levels of airspace management performance – improving safety, reducing delays and environmental impact while delivering a more cost-effective operational outcome.
2
Innovation to enable safer, more efficient airspace operations
Driving advancements in technology, automation, and operations to shape the skies of tomorrow. This award celebrates projects that explore the latest innovations demonstrating how cutting-edge technologies such as digitisation, virtualisation, and artificial intelligence can enhance performance, efficiency, safety, sustainability, and capacity in airspace operations.
3
Safety, security & resilience
This award acknowledges projects which support resilience to disruptions and unforeseen events and maximise operational performance ensuring that both safety and service continuity in extreme circumstances is possible.
4
Building the lower airspace economy
With drones, eVTOLs and personal flying vehicles about to take to the skies in increasing numbers, this award acknowledges the work that has been done to prepare lower airspace for safe and efficient new entrant operations, including integration with current ATM systems and procedures.
5
Remarkable people & workforce
This award celebrates the contribution that individuals, teams or company programmes have made to the airspace management industry – which could be ensuring the continuance of operations during crises or delivering an improved performance to customers.
6
Seamless Skies for All
A project or organisation which has delivered a measurable improvement to the optimisation of airspace management performance, supporting airspace users to meet their business and operational goals.
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Global Airspace Radar
Global Airspace Radar, the single source of information for airspace management stakeholders, is brought to you by our team, which has direct industry experience. Building on the combined experience of 80 years in the airspace industry and over 10 years of publishing, our team provides insights, analysis and opinions across the entire airspace management value chain, going beyond the obvious.
Unmanned Airspace and Urban Air Mobility News
Unmanned Airspace and Urban Air Mobility News is published and edited by Philip Butterworth-Hayes.
Philip Butterworth-Hayes is a consultant and writer specialising in air traffic management, aviation safety, military and civil aviation issues.
CANSO
CANSO is the global voice of the air traffic management industry. As the industry association, we bring the world’s air navigation service providers, leading industry innovators and air traffic management specialists together to share knowledge, develop best practices and shape the future for secure and seamless airspace. Together we are experts, we are innovators and we are the architects of future ATM.