| Skeyes | |
| Logo Alt: | Skeyes logo |
| Former Name: | Belgocontrol (1998–2018), French: link=no|Régie des voies aériennes or Dutch; Flemish: Regie der Luchtwegen (1946–1998) |
| Type: | Autonomous public company |
| Industry: | Aviation |
| Predecessors: | --> |
| Successors: | --> |
| Founded: | in Brussels, Belgium[1] |
| Founders: | --> |
| Hq Location City: | Steenokkerzeel |
| Hq Location Country: | Belgium |
| Num Locations: | 7 |
| Num Locations Year: | 2015 |
| Areas Served: | --> |
| Services: | Air traffic control |
| Income Year: | 2022[2] |
| Net Income Year: | 2022[3] |
| Owners: | --> |
| Num Employees: | 933 |
| Num Employees Year: | 2022[4] |
| Website: | https://www.skeyes.be |
Skeyes, formerly called Belgocontrol[5] or in its complete form the Authority of airways (French: link=no|Régie des voies aériennes, Dutch; Flemish: Regie der Luchtwegen),[6] is the Belgian air navigation and traffic service provider for the civil airspace for which the Belgian State is responsible. It was created in .
skeyes is a member of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), and is integrated into the Functional Airspace Block Europe Central (FABEC).
In Belgium, its zones of activities extend up to flight level 245 (24500feet), including the control of the airports of Brussels, Charleroi, Liege, Antwerp and Ostend.In the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, they apply between flight levels 145 or 165 up to flight level 245.
The sectors above flight level 245 fall within the competence of the Eurocontrol centre in Maastricht, to which Belgium has delegated air traffic control for its upper airspace.[7]
Skeyes has seven sites, located in Belgium. Five of them include the control towers of the Belgian international airports, and two are radar stations:
Skeyes is an autonomous public company, governed by the law of 21 March 1991.[8] This law, in its Title VI, defines its mission as follows:
From November 2018 onwards, Belgocontrol uses the trade name Skeyes.