written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . august 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message metron aviation type subsidiary industry air traffic management founded 1995 headquarters dulles va key people dan odonnell president and ceo products metron harmony number of employees 100 parent airbus website www.metronaviation.com metron aviation a subsidiary of airbus a 35m air traffic management services company based in dulles va with secondary offices in washington dc and atlantic city nj . specializing in concept engineering advanced research software development traffic flow management surface operations management airspace design and environmental analysis solutions to the global aviation industry . contents 1 origins 2 airbus acquisition 3 customers 4 external links 5 references origins edit founded in 1995 metron aviation pioneered the advancement of air traffic flow management working with the federal aviation administration faa to develop the industry s first collaborative decision making cdm platform for optimizing system wide traffic flow . airbus acquisition edit in july 2011 airbus announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the privately held metron aviation inc. in 2012 metron aviation was reorganized and aligned to support the launch of airbus prosky the toulouse france based atm subsidiary of airbus . today metron aviation has around 100 employees down from a high of 200 in 2011 . customers edit metron aviation s business is currently composed of 70 % advanced research and engineering and 30 % commercial products and solutions . current and past customers include faa nasa nav canada airservices australia atns south africa air canada alaska airlines american airlines delta air lines expressjet airlines fedex express jazz aviation jetblue airways netjets spirit airlines southwest airlines united airlines us airways virgin america airlines and westjet airlines . external links edit metron aviation website airbus prosky website references edit 1 . http www.marketwatch.com story airbus to buy us firm metron aviation 2011 07 26 . 2 . http spiderbook.com company 86073 details rel 231741 & show current true & show others true & people page 0 & document page 0 & current tab supporting documents . 3 . http www.atcglobalhub.com industry news metron appoints dan odonnell president 4 . http www.metronaviation.com about air traffic management leader management retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title metron aviation & oldid 718442541 categories companies based in dulles virginiahidden categories articles with a promotional tone from august 2010all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 may 2016 at 15 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view