Skeyes

skeyes, officially called Belgocontrol[3] or in its complete form the Authority of airways (French: Régie des voies aériennes, Dutch: Regie der Luchtwegen),[4] is the Belgian air navigation and traffic service provider for the civil airspace for which the Belgian State is responsible. It was created in 1998.

Skeyes
Formerly
Belgocontrol (1998-2018), French: Régie des voies aériennes or Dutch: Regie der Luchtwegen (1946-1998)
Autonomous public company
IndustryAviation
FoundedNovember 20, 1946 (1946-11-20) in Brussels, Belgium[1]
Headquarters
Steenokkerzeel
,
Belgium
Number of locations
7 (2015)
Area served
Belgium and Luxembourg
ServicesAir traffic control
€198,085,863.49 (2014 [2])
Number of employees
787 (2014)
Websitehttps://www.skeyes.be

skeyes is a member of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), and is integrated into the Functional Airspace Block Europe Central (FABEC).

Zones of activities

In Belgium, its zones of activities extend up to flight level 245 (24,500 feet (7.5 km; 4.64 mi)), including the control of the airports of Brussels, Charleroi, Liege, Antwerp and Ostend. In the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, they apply between flight levels 145 or 165 up to flight level 245.

The sectors above flight level 245 fall within the competence of the Eurocontrol centre in Maastricht, to which Belgium has delegated air traffic control for its upper airspace.[5]

Locations
Control tower of Brussels Airport (EBBR), in Steenokkerzeel.

Skeyes has 7 sites, located in Belgium. 5 of them include the control towers of the Belgian international airports, and 2 are radar stations:

Skeyes is an autonomous public company, governed by the law of 21 March 1991.[6] This law, in its Title VI, defines its mission as follows:

  1. to ensure the safety of air navigation in the airspace for which the Belgian State is responsible [...];
  2. to ensure to the Brussels airport the control of the movements of aircraft during approach, landing, take-off and taxi, and to continue to ensure the safety of the air traffic of public regional airports and aerodromes [...];
  3. to provide police, airport and aeronautical investigation services with information relative to aircraft, their flying, their movements and the observable effects of those;
  4. to provide meteorological information for air navigation, as well as telecommunication services or other services [...].

From November 2018 onwards, Belgocontrol uses the trade name Skeyes.[3]

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References
  1. "BELGOCONTROL". Crossroad Banks for Enterprises. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. Belgocontrol Annual Report 2015 Archived August 13, 2015, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  3. "Legal". skeyes. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  4. "Régie des voies aériennes - Regie der Luchtwegen". Belgian official journal.
  5. "Welcome". belgocontrol.be.
  6. Law relating to the reform of certain economic public companies, Belgian Official Gazette, 21 March 1991.

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