On 4th November 2021, at Air Traffic Control Centre Beograd, bilateral meeting of Predrag Jovanović, SMATSA CEO and Fahrudin Hamidi, Executive Director of Air Navigation Services Provider in North Macedonia, M-NAV, was held, together with their associates.

At the meeting two ANSPs confirmed the continuity of excellent operational and corporative cooperation, have agreed about further steps in order to upgrade corporative relationships and to raise general cooperation at higher level.

During the meeting they reviewed current topics relating two ANSPs business relations, putting emphasize on broader importance of M-NAV joining the SECSI FRA – South East Common Sky Initiative Free Route Airspace , that was planned for 2nd December 2021.

They concluded that M-NAV inclusion in SESCI FRA will raise quality of services in SMATSA and M-NAV airspace of responsibility, as well as in total airspace of SECSI FRA ANSPs jurisdiction, thus getting additional quality at wider, regional level.

They also agreed that last EUROCONTROL air traffic forecast and expected trend of reaching air traffic figures from 2019, provide solid foundation for full recovery of providers operations and realisation of M-NAV and SMATSA investments and other development plans.