AirNav Ireland

AirNav Ireland is the air navigation service provider for Ireland. It describes itself as a commercial semi-state company, employing approximately 600 people at six locations around Ireland. Its one primary function, it says, is to provide air traffic management and related services in the 451,000 square kilometres of airspace controlled by Ireland, a gateway between Europe and North America.

Services

• Air traffic control
• Flight information, alerting, and search and rescue services
• Aeronautical information management and NOTAM
• North Atlantic communications
• An online flight planning area where pilots file, change, delay or cancel flight plans

Locations and people

The company operates from its Dublin head office, the air traffic control towers at Dublin, Shannon and Cork airports, an en route centre at Ballycasey in County Clare, and a North Atlantic Communications Centre at Ballygirreen, County Clare. It employs over 200 air traffic controllers in Dublin, Cork and Shannon and 50 radio officers at Ballygirreen.

Company facts

• The company says it receives no state funding and is paid through charges raised from airline customers
• It reports a 90% maturity score in the CANSO and EUROCONTROL safety management standard in 2024
• It runs student controller, ATSEP and radio officer training programmes