Covid-19 crisis lasting since the very beginning of the year, made a significant impact on the aviation sector, that according to the aviation experts will cause a financial damage of approximately 110 billion Euros for all aviation stakeholders, i.e. the air navigation providers, airlines and the airports. These effects have not spared M-NAV either, thus resulting in significant drop in traffic of 92,2 % during the month of May, in comparison to the same month of the previous year (2019). The reduction in M-NAV’s income for the first 6 months is just above 4 million Euros. On European level, during the forthcoming months, taking into consideration all restrictions and limitation applied by the States health authorities, certain steps for graduate return to normal operations, were taken and the air traffic starts to increase. In April, EUROCONTROL presented two draft scenarios for graduate return to normal operations. The latest analysis depicts that the actual traffic is in line with the recommended coordinated scenario.

Source: EUROCONTROL

Compared to this scenarios M-NAV during the months of April, May and June presented lower results, where as in July has successfully provided service to 11282 overflights, which represents a drop of 62,1% in comparison to the same month previous year and this being in accordance with the coordinated scenario

M-NAV data is from in house statistics

The same rising trend continues in August also, thanks to the traffic that serves the passengers towards the summer holiday destinations in Turkey and Greece. We are joyfully welcoming every traffic increase, thus remaining completely dedicated to safe provision of service to our appreciated customers.

The Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of North Macedonia on behalf of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia has reached a Memorandum of Cooperation with the other Member States of the BLUE MED Functional Airspace Block. This opens a way for active participation of our country in the regional cooperation between the Member States of BLUE MED FAB, the Republic of Cyprus, Hellenic republic, Italy and the Republic of Malta.

M-NAV expresses a special pleasure for the fact that very soon its appointed representatives along with the representatives of the Ministry of Transport and Communications and of the Civil Aviation Agency will participate in the meetings of the Governing Body, as well as FAB Committees and Working Groups, thus obtaining an opportunity to exchange opinions and views in direction of improving the air navigation safety and meeting the needs of all users of the Airspace.

M-NAV, through its representative, Mr. Vladko Krstevski – Executive Director of CNS participated in the stakeholder`s Forum of Network Directors of Technology & Infrastructure Working Group (NDTECH), held last week at Eurocontrol’s Headquarters in Brussels. This Working Group has been established to provide support to the Network Manager in Cooperative Decision Making processes (CDM) on matters related to technology and infrastructure issues of the European ATM network.

The Working Group shall report to and support decision-making by the Network Management Board on matters related to technology and infrastructure of the European ATM network in execution of the tasks, as laid out in IR (EU) 123/2019 (EC1, 2019).

It shall ensure that the decisions taken by the Network Management Board are proper and that the guidance and the decisions of NMB are efficiently implemented. The close co-operation with the Networks Directors of Operations Group (NDOP) is crucial, providing relevant technology and infrastructure-related input.

Being a stakeholder in this forum, M-NAV has again proven that it continuously follows and contributes to the realization of all concepts, programs and projects, articipating in their definition and development.

M-NAV is committed to achieving a coherence of the agreed network and local activities with the Network Strategy Plan and Network Operations Plan.

Our organization actively contributed to the fulfillment of the requirements of the European ATM Master Plan, of the Single European Sky performance targets and of the requirements arising from the relevant European Union/European Commission Regulations.

On the occasion of the New Year holidays, on Saturday, December 21, M-NAV GOJSC organized a children’s play followed by a cinema projection within the premises of Cineplex Cinema in the City Mall in Skopje.

This activity was intended for the children of all employees of M-NAV GOJSC Skopje.
At first, the younger ones had the opportunity to watch a play titled “Торбата на Дедо Мраз” (Santa`s Bag) by the theater group Triangle, and then in the same hall the older children watched Djumandji II, a 3D movie.

This New Year’s Eve experience was supported by the Air Traffic Controller Association, Air Traffic Controller Union and Aeronautical- Technical Association, ATC.

We hope that these activities will grow into a tradition of company, and we wish all our children a careless childhood and happy holidays.

On 9-10 December in Sofia, the President of Management Board of M-NAV and ANS Executive Director, Mr. Nikolche Taseski and the ATM Expert Mrs. Jasminka Gocevska attended Gate OneCEO Meeting with 13 ANSPs from Central and Eastern Europe, members of the Gate One Coordination Platform. They met in Sofia to discuss their strategic objectives and working programme in the context of the changing environment of the Single European Sky. During the meeting CEOs agreed on the importance of strengthening the strategic position of Gate One at European level and its cooperation techniques, bringing operational benefits towards the fulfilment of SES and emphasising its pivotal role as a key player in the decision-making processes in European ATM. In this manner, new Cooperation Agreement between CEOs was signed in order to incorporate the latest changes in decision-making processes in Gate One platform.

This meeting was of huge importance for M-Nav since the attendees made for a fruitful discussion on Gate One’s action plan for 2020, stressing on the pertinence of voicing common positions on prevailing topics such as emerging concepts in ATM, new business models for Air Traffic Data Service Providers, the future economic regulation on the ANSPs and the future of the Single European Sky.