Johnny Pring talks to MEP Jan-Christoph Oetjen from the European Parliament's Transport Committee about the role of the Single European Sky ATM Research programme (SESAR) in transforming European airspace. SESAR has supported ATM's shift towards digitisation, automation and other new ways of working. Its projects benefit airspace capacity, ATM environmental performance, U-space and EU defence capabilities. Yet will the EU institutions agree to continue co-funding SESAR under the next EU budget?