Extended Arrival Management – Implementation in the European Union

Arrival Management Extended to En-route Airspace (Extended AMAN)

Arrival Management (AMAN) is an air traffic management concept that organizes converging streams of air traffic to ensure a smooth and efficient flow. By assigning speeds early, flights arrive at their destination in a well-spaced, optimized order, reducing the need for holding patterns and unnecessary fuel burn.

The Common Project One Regulation requires Extended AMAN to be implemented within 180 nautical miles (about 333 km or 45 minutes of flight time) of European Union’s 20 busiest airports. This involves specialized air traffic control (ATC) procedures, cross-border coordination between ATC centres, and supporting technologies. The objective of the European Commission is that Extended AMAN should be supported from end of 2024 using legacy networks, and by end 2025 with modern messaging protocols (SWIM).

This map shows the latest status of Extended AMAN implementation. For each mandated airport, the 180-nautical-mile radius is divided among the responsible ATC centres. Each centre ensures that flights within its area arrive at the destination airport in their assigned sequence. Many ATC centres manage arrival sequences to multiple airports simultaneously.

Sometimes an airport operating Extended AMAN will have another large airport within its 180NM horizon generating inbound traffic. Flights departing from such an in-horizon airport and into the AMAN airport will have flight time too short to be smoothly integrated in the sequence after takeoff; therefore, additional means - technical or procedural - is needed to connect the departure planning process at the In-horizon airport, with the arrival management process at the AMAN airport, to give the AMAN advance visibility of the incoming departure. 

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