Operations
Aircraft movements coordinated annually.
Inside the UAE Flight Information Region — every civil and military transit requires separation, surveillance, and clearance.
Air navigation service locations.
Strategic locations across the UAE — with a consultancy practice supporting projects worldwide.
Nationalities, one team.
Specialists from 40+ countries inside a 900+ skilled aviation workforce.
Aviation professionals trained.
ATCOs, ATSEPs, ATCAs, and AISAs credentialed through our regulatory-accredited ATS Training Organisation.
GAL-ANS is established to support the UAE's growing aviation sector. The founding mandate brings air traffic and navigation expertise together under one national operator — set up to serve a country whose aviation footprint is expanding fast across commercial and operational aviation.
Expansion of Air Navigation Services across strategic airports and airspace operations.
Strengthening operational capabilities across ATS, Engineering, Meteorology, and Training.
Supporting increasing UAE airspace complexity and traffic growth.
Acceleration of future-focused initiatives including ATM modernization and innovation partnerships.
Launch of the new GANS identity and strategic transformation into a future-ready aviation solutions leader.
Three statements that anchor every decision GANS makes — from the operations floor to the boardroom.
As custodians of the nation's skies, we serve the operators, regulators, and communities that depend on uninterrupted airspace.
Through innovation and partnership, we shape how the region designs, manages, and modernises its airspace.
Driven by duty. Guided by purpose. Working as one.
As Managing Director of GANS, Eisa Butti Al Shamsi is guiding a new phase for the national operator — strengthening operational excellence and expanding the organisation into future-ready aviation services.
Over 20 years across aviation, satellite communications, and government programmes — including senior leadership at Yahsat — shape an approach focused on clarity, accountability, and high-performing teams.
The Board sets strategic direction and oversees governance of GANS — drawing on decades of experience across UAE aviation, infrastructure, and public service.
Chairman
Ahmad Saif Al Mansoori
Three decades of senior leadership across UAE aviation, infrastructure, and public service — with long-standing institutional and regulatory experience.
Vice Chairman
Mansour Hamad Al Suwaidi
Senior experience across UAE aerospace and defence. Advises national entities on strategic infrastructure and capability programmes.
Board Member
Sultan Khalifa Al Nuaimi
Operational leadership across UAE airport infrastructure and capital projects. Former senior executive at a national airport operator.
Board Member
Khalid Rashed Al Hashemi
Career across air traffic management, regulation, and aviation policy. Holds technical qualifications in aeronautical engineering.
Board Member
Reem Saeed Al Mansoori
Background in finance and corporate governance. Director on boards of UAE entities across transport, energy, and technology.
Four communities that together define the operating environment for civil aviation in the UAE.
GANS delivers Aerodrome Control, Approach Surveillance, Aeronautical Information, ANS Engineering, Flight Information, and Alerting Services across the UAE airport network — anchored by the Sheikh Zayed Air Navigation Centre, the largest ATM facility in the region.
GANS manages over 800,000 aircraft movements annually — providing the separation, surveillance, and information services every transit through UAE airspace requires.
GANS is a Certified Air Navigation Services provider operating to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) benchmarks, and Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) operational principles.
The GANS Training Academy is a regulatory-accredited ATS Training Organisation. Four scholarship streams develop UAE national talent across air traffic control, electronics, and aeronautical information disciplines.
Four core support functions keep operations safe, secure, efficient, and commercially focused across every project.
HR, Training, Health & Safety, and Environmental Management.
Security, Risk Management, Quality, and Standards & Procedures.
IT, Project & Programme Management, and Supply Chain.
Finance, Legal, Marketing, and Communications.
ICAO, WMO, CANSO — the standards and memberships that frame every operation GANS delivers.
For the operator running an airspace programme. For the authority shaping the regulation. For the partner building what comes next.