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1. OBJECT

The purpose of this AIC is to inform Spanish airspace users of the changes that will take place in the Air Traffic Services Reporting Offices (AROs) of most Spanish airports.

2. CONTEXT

The ATS Reporting Offices (ARO) are in charge of receiving reports concerning air traffic services, providing flight plan management services, flight monitoring and alerting services.

This set is hereinafter referred to as the ARO service . Currently, AROs can be located at the aerodromes they serve or at the Centralized ARO. For cases of aerodromes and heliports that do not have an ARO in the AD, this service is provided from another ARO to which they have been assigned, as indicated in ENR 1.10.

Currently, the ARO service in Spain is provided by different entities:

• AENA: at aerodromes in the AENA network and assigned aerodromes.

• Air Force : at military aerodromes and assigned aerodromes.

• ENAIRE: at certain aerodromes in the AENA network and other assigned aerodromes.

• Others: at airports not operated by AENA (Andorra/La Seu d'Urgell, Castellón, etc.).

This change involves a transition from the current operational scenario where the AROs are physically located in the airports of the AENA network, to another operational scenario where ENAIRE will provide the ARO service centrally, from a single office, for 42 airports in the AENA network and their assigned aerodromes and heliports (currently listed in the AIP ENR 1.10).

This Centralized ARO will be located at the Madrid ACC, in Torrejón de Ardoz.

3. AREA OF APPLICATION

The following table lists the aerodromes currently receiving service from ENAIRE’s Centralized ARO, as well as those served by AENA ARO offices that will cease to provide the service once the transition process is completed.

ID	AIRPORT	ARO OFFICE
LECO	A Coruña	AENA LECO
LEAG	Algeciras	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEAL	Alicante/Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEAM	Almería	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEAS	Asturias	AENA LEAS
LEBL	Barcelona/Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat	AENA LEBL
LEBB	Bilbao	AENA LEBB
LEBG	Burgos/Villafría	ARO CENTRALIZED
GECE	Ceuta	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEBA	Córdoba	ARO CENTRALIZED
GCHI	El Hierro	ARO CENTRALIZED
GCFV	Fuerteventura	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEGE	Girona	AENA LEGE
GCLP	Gran Canaria	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEGR	Granada/Federico García Lorca. Granada/Jaén	AENA LEGR
LEHC	Huesca/Pirineos	AENA LEHC
LEIB	Ibiza	AENA LEIB
LEJR	Jerez	AENA LEJR
GCGM	La Gomera	ARO CENTRALIZED
GCLA	La Palma	ARO CENTRALIZED
GCRR	Lanzarote/César Manrique Lanzarote	AENA GCRR
LERJ	Logroño	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEMD	Madrid/Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas	AENA LEMD
LECU	Madrid/Cuatro Vientos	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEMG	Málaga/Costa del Sol	ARO CENTRALIZED
GEML	Melilla	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEMH	Menorca	AENA LEMH
LEMI	Murcia/Aeropuerto de la Región de Murcia	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEPA	Palma de Mallorca	AENA LEPA
LEPP	Pamplona	AENA LEPP
LERS	Reus	AENA LERS
LELL	Sabadell	AENA LELL
LESO	San Sebastián	ARO CENTRALIZED
LEXJ	Santander/Seve Ballesteros-Santander	AENA LEXJ
LEST	Santiago/Rosalía de Castro	AENA LEST
LEZL	Sevilla	AENA LEZL
GCXO	Tenerife Norte/Ciudad de La Laguna	AENA GCXO
GCTS	Tenerife Sur	AENA GCTS
LEVC	Valencia	AENA LEVC
LEVX	Vigo	AENA LEVX
LEVT	Vitoria	AENA LEVT
LEZG	Zaragoza	AENA LEZG

 

4. MODE OF OPERATION OF THE CENTRALIZED ARO

The airports of the AENA network and their assigned aerodromes and heliports will be grouped into geographical zones covering aerodromes that are geographically close to each other.

Each Centralized ARO Technician will be assigned the ARO service of one or more geographical areas. Each geographical area will have a different contact number so that calls may be routed to the technician providing the ARO service for that specific area.

The following table shows the geographical zones that have been defined and the airports contained in each of them:

Note:  The aerodromes and heliports currently under the responsibility of each Airport in this table (listed in AIP ENR 1.10) will be included in the same geographical area to which the Airport belongs.

The contact details for each geographical area are as follows:

Means of submitting FPL and associated messages to the Centralized ARO:

a) Prior to departure:

• Through the ENAIRE website  https://notampib.enaire.es/icaro/ . (1).

• Through an ICARO client. (1).

• By telephone.

• Via AFTN (Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network). (2).

• Other means as determined by the IFPS.

• Other means as instructed by the appropriate ATS authority.

b) During the flight:

• By radio to the appropriate air traffic services unit.

(1) When submitting a flight plan or associated message through the ENAIRE website or through an ICARO client, the "CENTRALIZED ARO" shall be selected as the ARO office.

(2) The AFTN addresses for sending flight plan messages or associated messages are as follows: 

• For Airports within the AENA network: to the ARO address of each airport (ICAO code of the airport of origin followed by ZPZX).

• For aerodromes and heliports without a designated ARO and listed in ENR 1.10: to the AFTN address of the CENTRALIZED ARO (LEANZPZX).

Changes with the mode of operation of the Centralized ARO

I. The ARO service will no longer be provided in person at the current AENA AROs and therefore no FPL or associated messages may be submitted in person.

II. The current AENA ARO terminals granting access to ICARO XXI in order to submit FPLs or associated messages will be removed.

III. Flight plans can no longer be submitted via FAX.

IV. The Centralized ARO provide service 24H.

V. At Airports where the ATS service schedule does not cover all Airport operating hours, the pilot shall report the flight departure or arrival to the Centralized ARO office, when these occur outside the ATS schedule.

5. PHASES AND DEADLINES FOR THE CHANGEOVER

The transfer of the ARO service from AENA to the Centralized ARO will be carried out in several phases in order to ensure its continuity. During each phase, a group of ARO offices will be transferred, and each ARO will be transferred on a different day within that period.
The following table displays the ARO offices to be taken over by the Centralized ARO in each phase and the scheduled dates for each phase.

6. PUBLICATION OF USER INFORMATION

The AIP information will be kept up to date by the means available for this purpose (AMDT/NOTAM/SUPPLEMENT).