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An analytics-driven airspace consultancy
helping national airspace designers create airspace designs that maximise both mission effectiveness and sustainable aviation, powered by proprietary technology
What we do
We specialise in airspace analytics and design to support our customers in transforming special use airspace, maximising flight training and force generation and minimising airline fuel consumption and emissions.
We support airspace designers through the following consulting services:
- Analysing existing airspace designs for opportunities to improve mission effectiveness and civil traffic flows.
- Creating new airspace designs free from established constraints.
- Validating new airspace designs under realistic conditions. We can assess their suitability based on their shape, size and modularity with respect to mission effectiveness and civil traffic flows.
- Building the tools of the future.
The value we bring
- New metrics that more accurately reflect how airlines fly, and how they interact with special use airspace. Help identify concrete actions to improve flight routing and save airlines millions of Euros per year and thousands of tonnes of CO2.
- Future proof your designs – we show you how they will influence flights under different conditions in the future. E.g. changes in route charges, charges modulation strategies, variable winds and different combinations of airspace reservation activations.
- A fast turnaround between design and simulation; results in days not weeks.
- You have access to cutting edge analytics and design capability that we are constantly evolving towards a vision of airspace that is reconfigured on a daily basis, to make the most of varying winds. This includes assessing how different reservations interact with each other.
Who we are
An airspace technology company using our proprietary analytics capability to help national airspace designers measure efficiency and create airspace designs, to maximise airspace efficiency and effectiveness and sustainable aviation.
Our team comprises civil and military experts in air traffic management and combat aviation, supported by deep expertise in analytics and computer science.
Problems we solve
We address two connected problems:
- More special use airspace is needed for military mission training, particularly fifth generation combat air.
- The interaction between special use airspace and civil flights needs to be decreased to reduce airline fuel burn and emissions.
Providing solutions to these problems is our specialist area.
Who we serve
We support national and supranational organisations including air navigation service providers, air forces and regulators.
Examples of recent work are:
- Study of the performance of special use airspace with respect to civil traffic flows for the EUROCONTROL Performance Review Commission.
- Scoping study of the North Sea Area initiative for expanded special use airspace for NATO partners on behalf of the EUROCONTROL Civil-Military Directorate.
“We are very pleased to have appointed Airspace Unlimited as consultants and would highly recommend them in the challenging area of special use airspace.“
– EUROCONTROL CMC
“Airspace Unlimited’s work overall has been outstanding, from sensitive stakeholder consultation through to innovative analysis, high quality reporting and insightful recommendations. We recommend them.“
– EUROCONTROL PRC
Select supporters and partners
UK Airspace Modernisation Strategy Fund, Innovate UK, Scottish Enterprise, UK Department for Transport, University of Stirling Department of Computer Science.
The future of airspace management
Read about our view on ‘smarter airspace management’ in the UK Air and Space Power Association’s February 2024 newsletter.