Egis Avia - Air Traffic and Airport Management

Egis Avia is a recognised civil aviation consultancy provider. Formerly known as Sofréavia, the company has disseminated its expertise in 140 countries for nearly 40 years.

Egis Avia, an integrated consulting and engineering office, ensures that your business is efficient and can cope with complex operational, technological and organisational evolutions. Our expertise includes Air Traffic Management (ATM), airport management and air transport management.

AIRSPACE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

Egis Avia participates in all major European ATM R&D projects, bringing incomparable expertise to all ATM aspects. Our consultancy and support studies include CNS / ATM master planning, airspace management using advanced simulation tools and optimisation techniques, technical system assessment and evolution plans, and pre-operational and operational studies for performance improvements in capacity, safety, efficiency and environmental areas.

Our experience provides your airport airside operations with optimum performance levels and development in accordance with local, regional and national constraints, using advanced modelling tools, proven methodologies and recognised experts in collaborative decision-making processes and sustained development.

CIVIL AVIATION PLANNING

Egis Avia delivers customer-tailored services and solutions in a global approach, including air transport and civil aviation planning, airport management and business planning, airport development, operational and technical studies, works supervision and project management, airport safety, and airport security.

AIR TRANSPORT PLANNING

Our air transport planning services include aviation policy and regulation development, competent aviation safety and airworthiness, regulatory economics, economic impact analysis, institutional restructuring, air traffic forecasting and prospective analyses, and air and multimodal transport strategic studies.

COMMUNICATION NAVIGATION SURVEILLANCE AND ATM STUDIES

These studies include research and development into future ATM concepts of operations (definition and validation), CNS / ATM master planning, airspace management (flexible use of airspace), demand and capacity balancing (flow management support studies), analytical, fast-time and real-time simulations, local, regional and global environmental studies, and civil aviation / airport ATC-performance assessment.

Additional services include airport airside operations support studies (CDM, A-SMGCS, runway and TMA operations), TC and CNS systems and centres (en-route, airport) evolution, organisational and transition support, TCAS support and definition of ADS-B onboard applications (ASAS), safety management and assessment, operational performance of safety nets, management support, and air traffic controller training.

COMMUNICATION AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SOLUTIONS

Egis Avia provides field-proven products and added-value solutions:

• ATALIS comprehensive and integrated aeronautical information management and air traffic service country-scale solutions
• MAESTRO – the most widely used arrival management system currently in operation – provides an integrated arrival and departure management (AMAN, DMAN) solution for airport collaborative decision-making processes (CDM-A)
• SCANSIM's ATC training simulators realistically reproduce ATC training environments from 2D or 3D aerodrome to ADS/CPDLC, including GCA, en route and approach radar
• ProATN and DL-FEP global data-communication solutions for Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) ground-ground and air-ground routers, and ATN end systems

In cooperation with the French DSNA, Egis Avia exports and deploys systems designed and developed by the DTI:

• AEROPAGE: GNSS legal recording, monitoring and prediction system
• Minimum Safe Altitude Warning (MSAW)

AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Egis Avia supports airport operators and CAA and BOT consortium stakeholders in building master plan studies that perfectly reflect their airport development strategy. We do this through airport master-planning, terminal programming, airport and terminal-capacity planning, airport environmental studies (airport noise zoning and air quality), obstacle clearance charts and an investment programme.

AIRPORT OPERATIONAL AND TECHNICAL STUDIES, AND WORKS SUPERVISION

Our airport and project operations management includes pavements evaluation and design, airport facilities design, air traffic control buildings design, terminal equipment (baggage handling systems, boarding bridges, and IT systems: AIMS, FIDS, CUTE), airfield equipment (lighting, navaids and meteo equipment), airport security engineering (100% hold baggage screening, access-control systems and CCTV) and communication equipment.

AIRPORT SAFETY AND SECURITY

Egis Avia's airport safety and security services include:

• Safety pre-audit for airport certification
• Elaboration of the aerodrome certification manual, and national and airport documentation
• Implementation of a Safety Management System (SMS), national certifying entities and certification processes, and a security quality-management system
• Audits and trials at national and airport levels

AIRPORT BUSINESS PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

Our airport management and business planning services include:

• Operations review and optimisation
• Operational readiness of new airport infrastructures and equipment
• Capital and maintenance programme development
• Business and strategic planning
• PPP / BOT process management
• Project financing
• Privatisation feasibility and implementation

The company's sound financial basis ensures the independence that is required for consultancy.