UAE – Mubasher: The Dubai Air Navigation Services (dans), the entity in charge of air traffic control at Dubai’s airports and the Northern Emirates, announced that its joint collaboration agreement with Serco, the UK-based provider of public services, has been renewed for another two years.
The extended agreement by dans will continue contributing to upgrading and boosting the level of service at both Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum International Airport, while ensuring a superior operational efficiency, according to a press release.
Through the high expertise enjoyed by Serco, the service will carry on the adoption of the latest technologies in accordance with international standards, dans said.
The agreement was signed by President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, chairman of Dubai Airports, and chairman and chief executive of Emirates Airline and Group Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, and CEO of Serco Middle East Phil Malem.
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum said: “We are continuing our efforts to offer world-class services to our customers and stakeholders. Accordingly, the extension of the agreement with Serco with whom we have a long business relationship, serves our directions and plans to further enhance our human resources and technical capacities, and to also ensure the superiority of the services we provide to the aviation sector in Dubai and the UAE”.
Moreover, Mohammed Abdullah Ahli, director-general of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and CEO of dans, said: “The agreement extension is in line with dans strategies to achieve a significant growth for the aviation sector in Dubai, which is building exceptionally qualified human resources and possessing cutting-edge technologies and specialised systems in the field of air navigation services. This is exactly what our agreement extension with Serco will ensure”.
Serco, one of the world’s largest private air navigation services companies, seeks to bolster the growth of air traffic in partnership with its aviation industry customers in the Middle East by building local capacity and national talent in the field of air traffic control.
