TopSky - Flow Manager

Better traffic demand anticipation, for smarter flow regulation decisions.

Civil Aviation
Airspace management

TopSky - Flow Manager helps Flow Management Position (FMP) take the smartest decisions to solve traffic imbalance by anticipating the most accurate traffic demand and weather information.

The leading solution for efficient ATFM

TopSky - Flow Manager delivers unmatched accuracy, flexibility, and integration, thus empowering ANSPs with the best Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) capabilities.

True trajectory prediction

Thanks to full 4D trajectory modeling, TopSky - Flow Manager delivers an accurate trajectory prediction by combining flight intent, aircraft performance, airspace data and live worldwide surveillance. This enables early congestion detection, optimized ATFM measures and improved network predictability.
Flexible ATFM deployment

TopSky - Flow Manager offers flexible deployment options, on premises, cloud or hybrid, so that ANSPs can choose the model that best fits their ATFM operations needs in terms of security, regulatory and operational strategies. Whichever deployment model is chosen, ANSPs benefit from Thales’ comprehensive, end-to-end support.
Seamless integration into ATM ecosystems

TopSky - Flow Manager integrates tightly with ATC systems, sharing traffic, trajectory and airspace data to align flow management with real-time control conditions. This ensures optimized ATFM measures, smoother tactical operations and reduced controller workload.

Advanced solution for solving traffic demand and capacity imbalance

TopSky - Flow Manager is the most innovative and user-friendly flow Management solution available on the market today, enabling to better anticipate the traffic demand and solve capacity imbalance accordingly. It integrates multiple data streams to provide Flow Management Positions (FMP) with the most accurate situational awareness and enables optimization of sectorization. TopSky - Flow Manager offers a comprehensive solution covering both strategic and tactical horizons, extending the collaboration capabilities with airlines and aiports.

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WHY OPTIMISE AIR TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT?

cost of airborne versus ground delays

€212m

cost of en-route 1min delay

87%

of delays attributed to capacity and staffing

The most powerful tool in your hands to help you take the best decisions

Our solution offers the following key features

TopSky - Flow Manager provides comprehensive situational awareness by integrating multiple real-time data sources, including demand, weather, military restricted areas, traffic load monitoring and capacity, in one single display. This unified view delivers accurate, up-to-date traffic and capacity insights, enabling flow managers to anticipate congestion, coordinate effectively, and optimize demand-capacity balancing across strategic and tactical horizons.

TopSky - Flow Manager continuously monitors traffic demand and capacity data to identify potential hotspots immediately, and for the coming 6 hours (demand and capacity imbalances, complexity hotspots, weather hazards affecting some flights, and military zone infringement). By analyzing 4D trajectories and airspace constraints in real-time, it alerts flow managers early, enabling proactive measures to prevent congestion, minimize delays, and maintain safe, efficient traffic flows.

TopSky - Flow Manager includes a comprehensive TMI (Traffic Management Initiative) and STAM (Short-Term ATFCM Measures) toolkit, enabling flow managers to plan, implement, and monitor tactical measures rapidly. It supports scenario simulations, comprising Lateral Rerouting, Level Capping, Take Off Not Before, Ground Delay Program, Miles-in-Trail and Minutes-in-Trail, to smooth flow management.

TopSky - Flow Manager supports strategic ATFM by enabling long-term traffic demand forecasting and capacity planning. It allows flow managers to anticipate congestion days or weeks up to months in advance, assess traffic demand, adapt sectorization plan and staff planning accordingly. This proactive approach enables a more efficient staff planning, helps prevent delays and ensures smoother network operations.

TopSky - Flow Manager supports sector planning by integrating airspace configuration, sector capacities, and traffic demand forecasts. It helps optimize the best moments when it is needed to split and merge sectors, ensuring balanced controller workloads and efficient airspace use. This leads to improved capacity management and smoother traffic handling across sectors.

TopSky - Flow Manager helps better assess traffic complexity, thanks to a tailored complexity indicator helping the controller to automatically detect complex situations that need his specific attention. It integrates Eurocontrols’ CAPAN methodology and uses a workload online modelling based on traffic density, events and expected ATCO tasks, fine-tuned with a probabilistic weighting of events.