skeyes aims to gradually equip all Belgian airports with digital control towers in order to increase the efficiency, flexibility and resilience of air navigation services. Following the agreement with SOWAER, signed in 2021, skeyes will start with the airports of Liege and Charleroi, the traffic of which will be controlled from a single centre located in Namur that will be further equipped in 2026 and become operational in 2027.
Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions was selected to provide the technical infrastructure, but skeyes continued to integrate its own features in 2025, such as safety nets and other tools based on skeyes’ AMS (Airport Movement System) and converted into augmented reality in the digital tower system. These developments are carried out in the Digital Tower Test Centre installed in 2024 at the Steenokkerzeel site.
Airport environments – Liège and Charleroi – are replicated in the Digital Tower Test Centre, which is fed with real-time images and traffic data. It enables all stakeholders to configure and test all functionalities down to the smallest detail.
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Namur
The building that will house the future digital tower control centre of the airports of Liege and Charleroi was completed in 2025. It is located in Namur, halfway between the two airports.
46m
is the height of the mast to which the camera system is fitted, installed at the Liege Airport site.
33m
is the height of the mast installed at the Charleroi Airport site.
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cameras give air traffic controllers a 360°view of each airport, enabling them to zoom in and reach areas that are inaccessible to view from a conventional physical lookout.
