Manchester Airport in collaboration with NATS will become the first major UK airport to adopt a digital hybrid control tower.

Manchester Airport has partnered with NATS and Searidge Technologies to introduce the UK's first 'hybrid' digital control ...

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The airport was the place where Winston Churchill took early flying lessons, even crashing once and nearly dying.

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Manchester Airport in the UK has partnered with National Air Traffic Services (NATS) and Searidge Technologies to introduce what is says is the UK's first 'hybrid' digital control tower.

Its November 2023 final report cited inconsistent funding, outdated technology, short-staffed air traffic control towers and onerous ... to land at London’s Heathrow Airport, for example.