Airservices Australia

Organisation Overview

Airservices is a government-owned corporation providing safe, secure, efficient and environmentally responsible services to the aviation industry. Airservices has responsibility for:

• airspace management
• aeronautical information
• aviation communications
• radio navigation aids
• aviation rescue and fire fighting services

We are responsible for the airspace stretching in latitude from two degrees to 90 degrees south; and in longitude from 75 degrees to 163 degrees east. This is an area of almost 20 million sq nautical miles (51.7 million sq kms) – or some 11 percent of the world’s total airspace.