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Nations work towards Asia Pacific Single Sky
The Asia Pacific region is progressing toward a cooperative air traffic management environment

The Asia Pacific region is progressing toward a cooperative air traffic management (ATM) environment, but significant challenges remain to achieving that vision, regional aviation officials said Tuesday at the Singapore Airshow.

Arun Mishra, director of the Asia-Pacific office of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), could not specifically say when the region will have a unified ATM system comparable to the Single European Sky or the NextGen concept being pursued in the U.S. “I admit I don’t have an answer; I can’t give you a date,” he said. “The good news is we have taken elements of this program and we are progressing on that.”