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Many charter flight operators will need to arrange flight clearances for their aircraft quickly. These flights can often be to very unfamiliar places.
As every flight planner knows, having an accurate list of contacts is essential to save time and get the job done. A few countries provide AIP information online; some require registration and passwords and some do not. Other countries guard their AIP data jealously and trying to obtain flight clearance information quickly can become a real headache. If you follow any of the discussions on Agora, this will be all too clear. Indeed, even contacting the numbers that are published in the AIPs can prove tricky.
The airportdata.aero website can help. It provides passenger and cargo airlines with information on airports and their service providers. This data has been used by the business aviation community for many years through various brands, such as AC-U-KWIK. The website provides a wealth of data that assists pre-flight planning by detailing airport address, information details and services. There are listings for all the major ground handling agents (such as Swissport and Servisair), fuellers (Shell Aviation and Air BP) and caterers (Gate Gourmet and LSG SkyChefs). The airportdata.aero website also has a section dedicated to providing a global source of flight clearance information.
The flight clearance section lists every country individually. There is general information about that country, such as currency, time zones, health hazards, security threat levels and telephone code. There is an overview that explains the procedures and problems associated with flying into the country (and out again). Also detailed are the deviations from ICAO standards.
The flight clearances tool in airportdata.aero standardises AIP information and is added to from official sources. Often, the details presented are updates direct from the civil aviation authorities and are more current than the published AIP. There are sections that explain the requirements for corporate, commercial and cargo carriers: contact details for the authorising authority, flight clearance application format, documents required and notice period. In addition, the designated authorities are also published. These too have additional data that is not published in the AIP. The final section deals with search and rescue showing the responsible authority, rescue co-ordination centre and further information from Cospas-Sarsat and marine rescue co-ordination centres.
Much of the data in the flight clearances section can be obtained directly from an individual civil aviation authority. However, this is time consuming and sometimes extra data is needed (such as an e-mail address). In other cases, it can be very difficult to obtain flight clearance contact details and it can seem like the destination country is trying to make it difficult for you to fly there. The airportdata.aero website brings together flight clearance information in one place, standardised to make the process much easier to understand. So, it doesn't matter if you are heading to Heathrow, Tokyo Narita or JFK, flight clearance information is easily available in one place.
So flight planners, to save you time and to find out more please visit airportdata.aero.
