2026 Agenda

Airspace is strategic infrastructure for both civil and military airspace users, and the foundation on which air traffic management is built. How we use the airspace, however, is suboptimal. Major ATM programmes have treated airspace as still air, yet the air is moving; airlines have been planning flights with winds for over 70 years. The flexible use of airspace, a civil-military concept, is flexible in process only; the airspace itself is constrained geographically. In Europe, network delays dominate our thinking at the same time that aviation faces multiple strategic threats, from conflicts to climate change. How can we break out of this legacy thinking? Airspace Unlimited welcomes you to join us on a journey to transform how we analyse, design and manage the airspace, where the future is highly-modular and wind based.