At the beginning of the summer season, for the second time M-NAV has broken the record for the number of flights over Macedonian sky! For the first time, a record-breaking number of a total of 1042 flights over Macedonian sky was recorded on 29th of the June of the year and again yesterday, on 06th of July a total of 1091 flights were recorded!
Just like the last year, also in the last Saturday of the month of June, the traffic exceeded the record number of flights set in the previous year. Тhe record so far set last year on August 11th, 2018 was a total of 1028 flights, so first the record was exceeded for 14 flights while yesterday on 6th of July, the record was exceeded for 63 flights!
It shall be taken into account that achievement of these records did not produce a minute of delay for the users of the Airspace.
The trend of continuous air traffic growth continued in the first half of the year of 2019 as well when an air traffic increase of 18.5% of the total traffic was recorded. During the first six months of 2019, M-NAV handled a total of 97 883 operations while in the year of 2018 it handled 82 619 operations.
When compared to 2017 a growth of 34% was recorded but when compared to 2016 there was substantial growth of even 59.3%.
Regarding the total traffic, the peak month is the month of February when it was recorded a total air traffic increase of 25.7% monthly when compared to previous year.
It is expected the air traffic increase trend to continue in the rest of the year, i.e. it is expected the already set record to be broken.
Maintaining a high level of professional competence and the devotion of all employees of M-NAV enabled the air traffic growth and it adds to the fact that the increasing number of air traffic has been handled with the same number of Air Traffic Controllers in the recent 10 years, but for the purpose of maintaining continuous performance we impatiently await for the new colleagues who currently undergo training.
M-NAV expresses thanks and congratulations to Air Traffic Controllers and to all professionals in the Company who continuously contribute to company progress and development besides the pressure arising of the ceaseless attempts to worsen the image of M-NAV.