According to the original plan, the remote control would be commissioned in 2020, but this will not happen. Now, instead, the plan is that Kiruna, who is first out, will switch to remote control sometime during the first quarter of 2021.

Åre / Östersund is another airport to be connected to, but exactly when it will happen, the Civil Aviation Administration cannot say at present. In any case, the intention is that it will happen in 2021.

Complex project

Ever since the decision on remote control in the fall of 2017, the project has been criticized from many directions. Security has been questioned and the costs of the project have also skyrocketed.

However, the delays have nothing to do with certainty, according to Ulf Thibblin, technical director at the Civil Aviation Administration.

- No, it has nothing to do with security, but it is the overall complexity of the project that created the delay.

How much the delay will cost the project, Ulf Thibblin does not want to go into, but points out that it is a business secret between the Civil Aviation Administration and the customer Swedavia who ordered the system.

Hear the CAA explain more in the clip above.