ENAIRE appoints Carlos Caspueñas, a professional with extensive management experience, director of the South Region

ENAIRE, the national air navigation service provider, has appointed Carlos Caspueñas director of the South Region. This appointment, which will go into effect on 1 May, is part of Enaire's process of reorganising its management team, which began last February and whose timeline is set out in its roadmap for the next few years: 2025 Flight Plan.

The appointment will take effect on 1 May

Caspueñas took over for Arsenio Fernández, who has been in charge of the South Region since 2012. Over the course of these nearly 10 years, Arsenio showed excellent management skills, which allowed him to successfully tackle the phenomenal growth in air traffic and the continuous improvement of the air navigation services. He will now use his proven skills and experience as the head of the Projects and Planning Department of ENAIRE's Network Directorate, where he will contribute his vision and knowledge.

The new director of the South Region, an experienced manager and currently an air traffic controller at ENAIRE's Control Centre in Seville, Carlos Caspueñas Muñoz, has a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (1994) and completed his project at ENSAE (Supaéro, Toulouse), working in his final years in university in the SIVA programme (ETSIA-INTA).

He began working as an air traffic controller in 2000 at the Gran Canaria Control Tower, and then moved in 2004 to the Seville Control Centre. He was appointed head of the South Region's Air Traffic Services Division in March 2016.

His previous work experience includes a stint in the Aeronautical Engineers Corps of the Civil Aviation General Directorate as Head of the Airworthiness Certification/Validation Programmes. He was Spain's representative in the European CNS/ATM (Communications, Navigation and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management) Steering Group, and specialised in the European (JAR) and American (FAR) certification and operations regulations. He also worked as an aircraft maintenance engineer at FAASA (currently the Pegasus Aero Group).

In his new post, Caspueñas's regional duties will include running ENAIRE's Seville Control Centre, which manages an airspace of 179,000 square kilometres that covers Andalusia, the province of Badajoz, part of Ciudad Real, Albacete and Murcia, the Bay of Cádiz and the western Mediterranean, as well as Ceuta and Melilla. It also contains the control towers at the airports of Sevilla, Málaga-Costa del Sol, Almería, Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén, Melilla, Córdoba, Jerez and Badajoz, and the heliport of Ceuta. He will also manage all the regional engineering and technical operations areas, including the 2 sector head offices that geographically provide support to maintenance tasks at the air navigation facilities in Andalusia. In addition, he will oversee all the cross-department and service support activities of the management and professional personnel at all the regional support units.

About ENAIRE

ENAIRE is the air navigation service provider in Spain.

As a company of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, it provides en route control services for all flights and overflights from five control centres in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Gran Canaria and Palma, as well as approach services to every airport in the country.

In addition, 45 control towers receive ENAIRE's communication, navigation and surveillance services, and 21 airports, including the country's busiest, rely on its aerodrome control services.

ENAIRE is the fourth most important European air navigation service provider, and, in a clear commitment to the Single Sky initiative, belongs to international partnerships such as SESAR Joint Undertaking, SESAR Deployment Manager, A6 Alliance, iTEC, CANSO and ICAO.

ENAIRE is the official provider of aeronautical information in Spain.