EUROCONTROL and operational stakeholders finalise plan to manage summer traffic in a context of increasing traffic and capacity constraints / Brussels, Belgium - Traffic so far this year is up 5% on 2024 and this trend is expected to continue throughout the summer months with traffic growth spread asymmetrically across the continent. Combined with a lack of air traffic control capacity in some parts of Europe, this will make this summer complex and challenging.To mitigate the impact of such a challenging situation, the EUROCONTROL Network Manager has agreed with its operational stakeholders a detailed plan based on five key elements: • Delivering the agreed capacity • Minimising the impacts of adverse weather • Filing realistic flight plans – and sticking to them • Prioritising the first rotation • Ensuring that flight schedules are realistic (....)