ENAIRE

ENAIRE

Headquarters.
Industry	Aviation
Founded	19 June 1991
Headquarters	Madrid, Spain
Area served	Spain
Key people	Julio Gómez-Pomar, Chairman
Services	air traffic management
Owner	Government of Spain
Number of employees	4,000
Website	enaire.es

ENAIRE is the air navigation manager in Spain, certified for the provision of en route, approach and aerodrome control services. As a public corporate entity attached to the Ministry for Public Works, it is responsible for air traffic control, aeronautical information and the communication, navigation and surveillance networks necessary so that air companies and their aircraft can fly safely, fluidly and in an orderly manner within Spanish airspace.

It is the fourth largest air navigation service provider in Europe by volume of air traffic, with around 2 million flights per year. ENAIRE manages these 2.2 million square kilometres of airspace from 5 air control centres (Barcelona, Canary Islands, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca and Seville) and 22 control towers.

It looks after controlling a complex airspace of over 2,000,000 square km, comprising one continental, and one oceanic, area. It also handles flights entering Europe from America and Africa as Spain is the port of entry linking traffic from Africa and South America with Europe, and especially with Germany, France and the United Kingdom. ENAIRE provides a flexible service capable of adapting to the seasonal nature of air traffic in Spain, where there is a considerably larger number of flights in the summer season as Spain receives the third largest number of tourists in the world.

ENAIRE participates in projects of the European Union related to the implantation of the Single European Sky, such as the group A6 and the European joint undertaking iTEC (with Indra and the air navigation providers NATS (United Kingdom), DFS (Germany), LVNL (Netherlands), Avinor (Norway), PANSA (Poland) and Oro Navigacija (Lithuania).ENAIRE is also a full member of CANSO.