Florence, 15th November 2013 - At the conclusion of SANDRA project, SESAR and SANDRA Radio and Data Link experts have met in Florence, hosted by Selex ES, to discuss about the future of aeronautical communications and to identify opportunities for future cooperation between the SESAR COM project and SANDRA partners. Several SESAR projects are dealing with communications, investigating at how new Air Traffic Management requirements for the Single European Sky will be supported and working on diverse aspects and focusing on Future Mobile data Link system definition (P15.2.4), Future Mobile Satellite Communication (P15.2.6), New Communication Technology at Airport (P9.16 and P15.2.7) and Flexible Communication Avionics (P9.44). The objective of SANDRA has been to design and demonstrate a proof-of-concept test bed of future IPv6-based connectivity, which integrates cockpit communications with both passenger and non-operational airline communications into a common system architecture.