DSNA provides air navigation services (ATS, CNS, AIS) through five area control centres and twelve regional divisions, operating over an airspace 1,000,000 km² wide.
The ACCs are located at Athis-Mons (Paris ACC), Reims, Aix-en-Provence (Marseille ACC), Bordeaux and Brest. Nine regional divisions located in mainland manage 74 airports and three regional divisions located overseas manage 12 airports and 2 OACC, in Guyana (Central America) and Tahiti, French Polynesia (South Pacific).
The French air navigation services controlled 3,224,532 flights in 2018, a 2,9% increase as compared with 2017. In 2019, absolute peak day was recorded on July 12th when they handled 11,311 flights thus establishing a new Europe wide record, among 117 days where the number of handled flights has been over 10,000. Previous peak was recorded on July 6th, 2018, with a number of 11,105 flights.
In the framework of the Single European Sky, DSNA is one of the seven ANSPs implementing the Functional Airspace Block Europe Central (FABEC) and is member of SESAR JU who manages the second phase of the European R&D programme (SESAR 2020).
DSNA also participates to AEFMP multilateral cooperation framework together with Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Tunisia.