Yesterday marked the end of an era as the EUROCONTROL Network Manager (NM) integrated initial flight plan processing unit (IFPU2) performed its final shift at our site in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. The team had already shared the workload for many years with its Brussels-based counterpart (IFPU1), which will now centrally manage all manual processing of invalid flight plan messages. This consolidation is part of the wider collocation of operational services envisaged as part of NM’s ambitious digital modernisation of its operational systems, the iNM (Integrated Network Management) programme.