Egis Avia - Consulting, Engineering and Turnkey Services for ATM, Airport and Air Operations

Egis Avia is a leading company dedicated to air transport offering to its clients a cross-disciplinary expertise in air traffic management (ATM), airport and air operations. Since 1969, Egis Avia (originally Sofréavia) has completed more than 1,000 projects in 140 countries. Egis Avia has exported its expertise worldwide to all kind of air transport stakeholders:

• Air navigation service providers (ANSPs)
• Major airports
• Air carriers
• Civil aviation authorities (CAA)
• Industry
• International institutions such as ICAO, Eurocontrol, EASA, JAA, EUROCAE, the European Commission and the World Bank
• Training institutions

Our comprehensive set of services, assistance and products is designed to enhance your performance while focusing on efficiency, multi-level regulation, environment sustainability, safety and security.

Since 2007, Egis Avia has been part of the Egis Group, a subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts Group, which is among the major financial investors in Europe. Egis is an engineering and consulting group specialised in the construction of infrastructures and systems for transportation, local and territorial development, road and airport operation, water and the environment.

Air traffic management consulting and engineering

Egis Avia provides unique and integrated expertise in air traffic management, covering consulting and engineering as well as turnkey solutions.

Egis Avia's capabilities encompass:

• Strategies and concepts in air traffic management / communication navigation surveillance (ATM/CNS): preliminary studies, strategy and planning, airspace design and airspace management, future concepts, and ATM institutional and regulatory issues
• Definition of ATM and CNS systems: operational studies, definition of CNS and GNSS systems, capture of users' requirements, system modelling, specification and architecture, support to transition, and definition of concepts
• Systems integration/validation and deployment

These services are supported by a cross-disciplinary expertise covering certification (quality and safety management, audits and safety cases); surveillance and safety nets (TCAS support and definition of ADS-B applications); and human factors (studies for certification and support to cockpit design).

ATM / CNS turnkey services

Egis Avia has a strong experience in commissioning complex ATC and communications turnkey solutions and offers a valuable assistance during the whole implementation process (design, training, operational support and maintenance services).

• Aeronautical information system (AIS) and airport flight data processing system (AFDPS): ATALIS is a modular solution dedicated to aeronautical information management (AIM) and air traffic services (AIP, charting, NOTAM, flight plans, flight movement and AIXM functions)
• Communication systems (from AFTN to ATN): Egis Avia offers an adaptive datalink solution including ProATN (aeronautical telecommunication network) and datalink front-end processor (DL-FEP)
• Traffic metering and sequencing system: MAESTRO AMAN / DMAN provides an integrated arrival and departure management (AMAN, DMAN) solution coping with collaborative decision-making processes (CDM)
• Aerodrome and air-traffic control simulators: SCANSIM is a complete family of intuitive 2D and 3D ATC simulators for ATCO training
• Areopage solution: dedicated to GNSS legal recording, monitoring and prediction (Egis Avia commercialises this product in close cooperation with the French DSNA)
• OPAS: in cooperation with the French DSNA, Egis Avia offers customers tailored solutions based on fast-time simulations to investigate new ATM concepts, design new airspace or assess environmental impacts

Airport consulting and engineering

Egis Avia provides extended services to airport operators to support their development strategy such as airport development studies (master planning, capacity studies, noise zoning and air quality); operational and technical studies (pavements and facilities design, and terminal design); works supervision; audits and certification process management for airport safety (SMS); and airport security services (airport documentation).

Airport turnkey services

Beyond its consulting and engineering services, Egis Avia provides turnkey solutions to airports to support operations management: air-traffic control buildings (control towers, tower cabs and ATC centres); terminal equipment (baggage handling systems, access-control, CCTV, boarding bridges, and IT systems — airport information management solutions, FIDS and CUTE); and airfield equipment (lighting and navigation aids).

Air operations consulting

Egis Avia delivers air transport and civil aviation planning services Egis Avia assists aviation administrations and authorities in assessing their capability to manage and oversight safety.

Our services include institutional reorganisation (organisation reforms and restructuring, and legislation framework); technical and economic regulation re-writing; safety regulation (compliance with international standards); support in airworthiness for airlines (assistance and training); sector policy and strategies elaboration (including the identification of public-private-partnership initiatives); and prospective analyses through air traffic forecasting or financial studies.