The Directorate
general
for civil aviation
ROLE
DGAC, the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) is responsible for ensuring the safety and security
of French air transport, as well as maintaining a balance between development and environmental
protection. On one hand is a regulatory authority, but it also supervises safety, provides air navigation services and training and it is a partner of key players in the aeronautics industry. It is in
charge of financial aid for research in aircraft construction and State industrial policy in this sector.
In charge of safety and security
Maintaining high safety and security standards in the air transport sector is one of the DGAC’s constant
concerns. It is in charge of monitoring industrial players, operators and flight crew.
Service provider
The DGAC provides services for airline companies and general aviation. It provides air traffic services,
through its en-route control centres and air traffic control towers.
Market regulator
The DGAC plays an active role in economic and social affairs. It acts as France’s air transport regulator.
It is the key representative of airline companies, airports and their customers.
Partner of the aeronautics industry
As a partner of industrial manufacturers and operators, the DGAC closely monitors activity in the aeronautics industry. It implements a policy designed to support this key sector in the French economy
thanks to research subsidies and repayable advances.
Actions for the Ecologial transition
The DGAC takes action to reduce pollution, especially noise and air pollution, generated by air transport. It is involved in minimising pollution and maintains dialogue with local elected officials and the
representatives of residents which live in proximity to airports.
At the heart of international action
The environment of civil aviation is highly international and European. The DGAC is involved in defining
and defending France’s position within the international bodies. It plays an active role in constructing
the Single European Sky. This project aims at harmonising air traffic management across the whole
Europe with a view to improving safety, while reducing costs, delays and CO2 emissions.
Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy
www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr
DGAC ORGANISATION
Directorate general for civil aviation
Air transport
gendarmerie
Directorate general
for civil Aviation
Patrick GANDIL
Staff cabinet
Flight Control
Organisation
Deputy director-general
Paul Schwach
Light, general and
helicopter aviation service
Directorate for air
navigation services
9 metropolitan interregional
directorates
(7 métropoles)
Technical and innovation
directorate
Directorate for air transport
Civil Aviation Technical
Department
Operations directorate
DSAC West Indies-French
Guiana
4 CRNA area control centres
9 metropolitan airports
regional
structures (SNA)
SNA West Indies-French
Guiana
SNA Indian Ocean
CESNAC
(central air navigation systems operations centre)
SIA
(aeronautical information
services department)
SAC Saint-Pierre and
Miquelon
DSAC Indian Ocean
General secretariat
Airport Taxes Management
department
National airport engineering
department
Modernisation and IT
department
National School of
Civil Aviation
SEAC French Polynesia
DAC New Caledonia
SEAC Wallis and Futuna
Directorate general
Headquarters
Departement with national
authority
Decentralised units
Public establishment
Key Figures
for the French aeronautical sector in 2012
Total DGAC workforce at 1st janvier 2013 10,963 staff, including 4,083 air traffic control officers.
La navigation aérienne
number of flights controlled in 2012: 2,809,461
domestic flights: 457,016
international flights: 1,077,681
overflights: 1,274,764
Economic impact (revenue in billions of euros)
air transport: 24.4 (CA groupe AF-KLM 2011)
airports: 3.3 (2011) (ADP + the first nine airports)
industry: 38.5 (2011) up 3.3% on 2010
French airport sector
number of aerodromes: 500
number of passengers: 166.91 millions
(among wich 10 millions french overseas)
Top 5 French airports in 2012
(in millions of local passengers)
Paris-CDG : 61.38
Roissy-CDG is the first european airport in terms of
movements and the second in passenger terms.
Paris-Orly: 27.19
Nice: 11.78
Lyon: 8.36
Marseille: 8.17
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French airlines
number of licensed air carriers: 124
number of registered aircraft: 16,403
Air France-KLM is in 2012, the leading European group in terms
of passenger-kilometres performed (PKP) and the world’s
secondranking group in total tonne-kilometres performed (TKP).
French airlines account for 3.5% of global traffic in terms
of passenger-kilometres performed (PKP).
Top 7 French airlines (in millions of passengers)
Air France Group: 46.24
Régional CAE: 2.45
Aigle Azur: 1.85
Brit Air: 1.5
Transavia: 1.65
Air Corsica: 1.62
Air Méditerrannée: 1.34
A major source of employment (in millions of employment in 2011)
airlines (85 % of these jobs are with Air France): 63,500 jobs
airports managers (77 % of these are with the Aéroports de
Paris Group): 10,700 jobs
ground handling companies: 12,000 (excluding ADP)
aerospace manufacturing sector: 162,000 jobs
Directorate general for civil aviation
50 rue Henry Farman - 75720 Paris cedex 15 - France - tel.: +33 (0)1 58 09 43 21
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