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Alice Tidey

Germany developing plans to ready airspace in case it needs to defend itself, air traffic boss says

Germany is drawing up plans to quickly ready its airspace if the country needs to defend itself, the air navigation service provider told Euronews, warning that airlines and airports remain too naive about the possibility of such an event.

"We are working currently with the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Transport on a requirement catalogue to be prepared for a defence case," Arndt Schoenemann, the chairman and chief executive officer of DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, which oversees Germany's airspace, told Euronews.

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