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FEATURE ENAV AVIATION

KLIA turns to Outsourcing:

Ambitious Expansion Plans

Italian expertise used to underpin KLIA’s expansion plans across infrastructure,
control and operations flags a new departure for Malaysian airport operations

Italy-based eNaV, a state-owNed first commercial company incorporated
business, operates as an air traffic control abroad,” said ENAV Asia Pacific CEO
and navigation service provider across an Mauro Iannucci. He explained that ENAV is
international base. The company already currently working closely with Malaysia’s
operates control towers at 39 Italian DCA on a major project supporting the
airports as well as four area control expansion of KLIA in the form of a large-
centres, and currently oversees and is scale development that will see the
responsible for some 1.6 million flights addition of a third runway, a new control
per year over an impressive 751,000-plus tower and the opening of the largest low-
square kilometres of airspace. cost carrier (LCC) terminal in the world.
The company recently won a major “Six hundred air traffic controllers
contract from Malaysia’s Department of are to be trained in the coming four
Civil Aviation (DCA) for extensive works years,” said Iannucci. “This will be done
including a major upgrade project at Kuala step by step as the airport expands, with
Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). It will controllers needing to achieve specific
ENAV CEO Massimo Garbini act as the consultant in such diverse areas training milestones.”
and Director General of as airport design, airspace design and Two simulators located in Kuala
Malaysia’s Department of management, flight procedures design, Lumpur will be central to support the
Civil Aviation Azharuddin the publication of manuals and training of training programme and over the next
Abdul Rahman shake air traffic controllers. four years, ENAV Asia Pacific will assist
hands for the camera at the “It’s an important step for us to the Malaysian service providers in
launch of ENAV Asia Pacific register here in Malaysia. In fact, it’s our managing a large programme for the

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