DFS Aviation Services is your perfect partner for products and services related to air navigation services.
We ourselves are a certified air navigation service provider (ANSP). In addition, we can offer you a broad portfolio of highly professional air traffic control systems, services and training worldwide.
Thanks to our worldwide project experience in a wide variety of air traffic environments, our experts can quickly and fully grasp the individual conditions and challenges of your airspace. You will benefit from our flexible structures and efficiently used resources. Together, we will find the optimum solution for your air traffic management. We have already been able to convince air navigation service providers, airlines and supervisory authorities from all over the world of this.
Experienced in-house air traffic system development, professional maintenance services and reliable data provision.
Experienced in-house air traffic system development, professional maintenance services and reliable data provision.
Tailored Air Traffic Control at a fair price.
Tailored Air Traffic Control at a fair price.
High-class consulting services for Air Traffic Management.
High-class consulting services for Air Traffic Management.
Professional ATM training at the DAS Aviation Academy (DAS A²).
Professional ATM training at the DAS Aviation Academy (DAS A²).
We have many years of experience as an air navigation service provider and, in addition, have gained experience from multiple international ATM projects since 1995. We can offer you access to a comprehensive range of expertise in air navigation services drawn from the entire DFS Group with DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS) as the parent company.
In total, the DFS Group can draw on more than 65 years of experience in air navigation services and currently provides its customers with terminal services at 27 airports in Germany and abroad. Every year, DFS coordinates approximately 2.4 million take-offs and landings and more than 3 million aircraft movements in upper airspace in Germany alone, one of the most complex airspaces in the world.
Today, DFS Aviation Services comprises 3 subsidiaries and 3 international representative offices.
Under Locations, you can find a map of our worldwide locations and airfields where we are active as an ANSP.
„As a full-service integrator, we can accompany projects from the original idea, through to development and final implementation. You benefit from our own experience as an air navigation service provider.”
„As a full-service integrator, we can accompany projects from the original idea, through to development and final implementation. You benefit from our own experience as an air navigation service provider.”
Since 1 January 2019, Andreas Pötzsch leads DFS Aviation Services GmbH. Over the last six years, Pötzsch had been Director En-route and Approach, the largest operational unit at DFS. Prior to this, the industrial engineer with a MBA in aviation, managed the division Tower and held various other positions within DFS. Recognized internationally as an aviation manager, Andreas Pötzsch is also involved in international co-operations, such as iTEC and FABEC. Pötzsch was Chairman of the Standing Committee Operation from 2014 to 2017 and since January 2018 has been Chairman of the Network Director Operations Meeting at EUROCONTROL.
Pötzsch was born in 1965 in Bad Saarow. He started his career at DFS in 1992 as an air traffic controller. He is married with four children.
Pierre Hermann has been Managing Director of DFS Aviation Services GmbH since April 2021. Hermann previously held various executive positions in parent company DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), including head of Aeronautical Information Management (AIM). The graduate industrial engineer began his career at DFS back in 1999 with responsibility for marketing the Academy of German Air Traffic Control. Having worked in the industry for many years, including for the DFS subsidiary GroupEAD and for CANSO, Hermann knows the air navigation services world in detail and is well networked internationally.
Pierre Hermann was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1964. He is married and the father of two daughters.
DFS Aviation Services Bahrain Co WLL opened its doors in Manama at the beginning of the year. The new subsidiary was founded under a contract with the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications of the Kingdom of Bahrain and is responsible for the provision and management of air navigation services personnel.
A successful remote tower project between DFS and the Austrian technology group Frequentis AG gave rise to the idea of further cooperation in this field. At the end of 2018, the joint venture Frequentis DFS Aerosense GmbH, based in Vienna, was founded between DAS and Frequentis AG to deliver turnkey remote tower solutions worldwide.
From now on, the new wholly-owned DFS subsidiary DFS Aviation Services GmbH (DAS) bundled the price-financed business of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH, which was previously covered by the subsidiary The Tower Company GmbH and the DFS division Aeronautical Solutions. As a result, Air Navigation Solutions Ltd. will now also become a subsidiary of DAS.
With this, the core business of DFS Aviation Services is based on two pillars:
On the one hand DFS Aviation Services provides air navigation services (certified ANSP) and on the other hand we offer air traffic management related products and services worldwide.
In March, Air Navigation Solutions Ltd. took over air traffic control at London Gatwick Airport, the second-largest airport in the United Kingdom.
In the summer, Air Navigation Solutions Ltd. was additionally awarded the contract to provide air traffic control services at Edinburgh Airport from 2018.
Preparations to establish local representative offices of DFS Aviation Services in Singapore and Beijing began.
The UK subsidiary Air Navigation Solutions Ltd. (ANSL) was founded to provide access to the UK market.
DFS founded its subsidiary The Tower Company GmbH (TTC) to specialise in air traffic services at small and medium-sized airports.
The international business grew and the Consulting unit became the Aeronautical Solutions“ division, which offered both consulting services and aeronautical products to commercial customers worldwide.
The Consulting division was created to handle the large demand for international services.
For the first time, DFS controls more than two million flights in one year.
BFS was privatised as DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS), but remains 100% federally owned. DFS continued to exist in this form till today and is sovereignly responsible for en-route control in the upper airspace of Germany as well as for approach and departure control at the 16 international airports in Germany (by definition).
In Germany, a close exchange between the responsible bodies for civil and military air traffic control began from an early stage. In 1959 the Federal Ministry of Transport and the Federal Ministry of Defence agree on a first civil-military division of tasks between the allies and the German Armed Forces.
After the „Zentralstelle der Flugsicherung“ (1927), the “Reichsamt für Flugsicherung” (1933) and a division into the „Reichsamt für Wetterdienst“ and the „Reichsluftfahrtministerium“ (1934), the „Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung“ (BFS, Federal Agency for Air Traffic Control) was founded in 1953.
As air traffic increased, so did the need for regulation and control to ensure safe air travel. The history of air traffic control in Germany began in the 1920s with the introduction of the „Luftfahrer-Warndienstes“, which made meteorological and bearing information available to pilots by telegram.
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