The Strategic Impacts Of Deregulation Of Civil Aviation Industry: Modernization Of Air Navigation Technology On Saudi Air Navigation Services

Civil aviation industry is in conversion from a strictly government-controlled transport sector to a much more competitive, liberalized operating environment. For many years the air navigation services has been under pressure to adapt to new institutional arrangements and increased operational requirements. Air traffic management must meet the challenges of the twenty-first century - in which a global, seamless airspace is developed, based on cost-effective and efficient services, with sufficient capacity to meet the world's air transport needs.
Modernization of air navigation services technology is intended to give users new abilities such as flexible departure and arrival routes and increased usage of preferred flight trajectories. The goal of air navigation
technology modernization is to increase the flexibility and efficiency of the air navigation services by improving traffic flow and reduce user operation costs. CNS/ATM systems are global in nature and usually planned and implemented at a regional or global level, in some cases by
collective regional entities or commercial service suppliers. The result of the proposed development would combine space and computer technology, which would render obsolete much of the existing system ground based equipment. This study has developed a better understanding of the new uncertain environment for air navigation services from global perspective through the analysis of the deregulation of civil aviation industry and the new air navigation technology.