JCAA AVIATION SEMINAR
Optimizing Airport Capacity to Meet Growth in Air Commerce
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Airport Capacity Factors
Runway Capacity Taxiway Capacity Apron Capacity Terminal Capacity Flight Scheduling
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Runway Capacity
Factors affecting RWY capacity:Runway configuration & lengthAircraft mix (Wide body, Narrow body …. to GA)
RWY occupancy timeAircraft separation
WeatherNoise
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Taxiway Capacity
Taxiway Capacity– Number of taxiways– Configuration
Rapid ExitParallel and linkRWY/Taxiway separation compliance
– Weather
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Apron Capacity
Multiple Aircraft Ramp System (MARS) Apron Configuration Aircraft Mix Distance of Gates from Central Processing Area Aircraft Docking System ATC procedures Apron Management System Loading Bridge Vs Pax Stairs
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Passenger Terminal
Passenger Processing Systems Security Processing Border Control Processing Customs Processing Terminal Configuration
– Central Lounge Vs Gate Lounge– Space adequacy– Information and Communication
Baggage Handling Systems
The Efficient Airport of the Future
(SITA)
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Expected Check-in Business Process Changes
Check-in moves out of the terminal to the passenger
– 40 – 50 % Web check-in – 20 – 30 % Kiosk check-in– 10 – 20 % Mobile check-in– 10 – 20 % Agent check-in
Airlines move to low cost virtual branding rather than expensive branding based on physical airport space
Airports move to common use infrastructure
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Boarding at the Gate
Traditional Simplified
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Self-boarding gates
Fast Track Lane
Self Boarding
Immigration Gates
Anti-Reflow Doors
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Border Control (SITA)
Traditional Simplified
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Expected Changes in the Baggage Business Processes
Passengers tagging own bags– At home with new permanent RFID tags– At the terminal with kiosks
Passengers paying for off site bag processing at ships, hotels, resorts and convention centers
– Off site bags delivered directly airside for screening Airport terminal bag processing taking 15 – 30 seconds
– Access passenger PNR and check documents– Turn Inactive tags Active– At general drop off station rather than airline dedicated counters
(SITA)
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Integrated Baggage Management / RFID
Deploying RFIDat Hong Kong Airport
• Estimated savings of $3.9MUSD/yr in mishandled baggage
• Largest RFID deployment in Asia
• “Using RFID tags for tracking and managing baggage has led to tremendous increases in productivity, as well as enhanced security and reduced costs.”
Eric Wong, General Terminal Manager,Airport Authority Hong Kong
Deploying Integrated BaggageManagement at JFK IAT
• Airlines at JFK estimate this will save them up to $1.2MUSD/yr in mishandled bag costs
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Impact on Security business processes
Data mining and data linking identify suspicious persons who get “preferential” screening attention
New physical security technologies provide faster “walk through” screening processes
Registered traveler programs help pay for the technology
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But … optimizing passenger processes only moves the airport’s constraint to the ramp or airfield
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Impact on Airport Design and Operation
Terminal efficiency increases significantly, allowing the process of 30 to 60% more passenger within the same infrastructure
Airports facilitates shared passenger flow rather than airline specific passenger flow
Airports provide a shared IT infrastructure allowing information interchange and collaborative decision making
Airports need less space for passenger processing
Airports use space for retail business and social interaction rather than queuing and processing
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Airport business model evolution
Opportunity for the airport operator to evolve from:
providing premises:
• room• light• heat & power
Airport tenants’ requirements become more sophisticated as back and front office systems develop
providing technology:
• LAN• telephone & PC
tobecominga service provider
to
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Emergence of the Aerotropolis
“Airports today are much more than
aviation infrastructures. They have
become multimodal, multifunctional
enterprises generating significant
commercial development within and
well beyond their boundaries”.
“Just as we have Central Cities and the greater Metropolis, we now have Airport Cities and the greater Aerotropolis.”
- Tae Hoon Oum President, The Air Transport Research Society
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Summary
New business processes and technologies are being deployed today to:
– Speed up passenger processing while enhancing security– Facilitate faster turn around times– Allow existing terminals to handle 30 to 60% more passengers
However it is only possible if :– Information is interchanged between all stakeholders– Processes and technologies follow some reasonable standards and
sensibility to deployment cost to ensure adoptions– Airport designs incorporate the new concepts
(SITA)
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NMIA Modernization Programme
Capital Development Programme – Phase 1A
Terminal Systems Enhancements
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NMIA Common Use Systems
CUNI – Common Use Network Infrastructure CUPPS System (Check-In Counters & Gates) CUSS Kiosks Local Departure Control System (LDCS) Dynamic Signage (Airline counter identification)
Scales, Baggage Conveyors, X-Ray Machine Common Use Telephone System
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Common Use Network Infrastructure (CUNI)
NMIA has implemented a robust, high speed, common use network infrastructure (CUNI) based on fibre optic technology across the airport for use by all airport tenants.
This has allowed NMIA to run operations from one common network, eliminating the costs of building and maintaining separate systems for data, video and voice.
The network is centrally managed, which enables NMIA to respond faster to operational issues.
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Common Use Network Infrastructure (CUNI)
Connecting Users – The network has enabled new operating efficiencies among airport personnel: security, airlines, customs, immigration, and has improved customer service and access to various services by airport customers and passengers.
Connecting Systems - The network - facilitates new applications; increased productivity and cost efficiencies for airport operations. It has enabled enhanced processes, such as passenger processing systems (CUPPS & CUSS); utilizes audio paging and video-on-demand to deliver multimedia content to flight information monitors and airport lounges.
Most importantly, the infrastructure upgrades ensure a highly-secure and reliable network.
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Common Use Network Infrastructure (CUNI)
The network has become the most important piece of infrastructure we own, as every facet of our business is now connected including check-in and boarding systems, baggage management, immigration and passport control, CCTV, access control, paging, building management, flight/baggage/gate information systems and voice systems.
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Common Use Passenger Processing System (CUPPS)
CUPPS is an upgrade of the Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE) system and provides a standardised system platform for common use implementation at airports.
Deployed at NMIA since opening of expanded and modernized terminal in 2007 to optimise check-in counter and gate resources for airlines.
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CUPPS in the Caribbean
Jamaica: NMIA and MBJ Barbados Trinidad and Tobago Grenada Curacao Note: AAJ had introduced a partial a partial CUTE system
(i.e. Local Departure Control System (LDCS) at SIA in 2001 for handling agents and gate management.
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NMIA - Check-in Counter allocation Pre and Post CUPPS
Airlines Before AfterAir Canada - 6 6Air Jamaica - 21 20 (12)American Airlines- 12 6 (8)British Airways - 7 6Caribbean Airlines - 5 6Virgin Atlantic - - 14Handling Agents*AJAS - 12 6 per flightJamaica Dispatch - 5 6 per flightTOTAL 68 [54 in use]*Cayman Airways, COPA, Delta, Spirit, SkyKing, Jet Blue
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CUPPS Counter Components
Workstation (Computer) Keyboard with integrated OCR & MSR Airline Ticket & Boarding Pass Printer (ATB)
– To support magnetically encoded ATB2 documents, 1D Bar Code and the new 2D Bar Code (PDF417)
Bag Tag Printer (BTP) Boarding Gate Reader (BGR) Multi-Function Document Reader (MFDR)
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Local Departure Control System (LDCS)
The CUPPS system allows scheduled airlines access to their own host departure control systems
Carriers without a dedicated system, have access to the Local Departure Control System (LDCS) which allows participation in the Common Use environment
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Common Use Self Service (CUSS) Kiosks
Self-service check-in kiosks facilitates a faster check-in process, especially for passengers with no checked baggage.
CUSS) kiosks provides similar benefits to CUPPS in the form of operational flexibility and reduced costs of ownership to the airlines and the airport.
6 CUSS Kiosks installed at NMIA; to be increased to 10.
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Common Use Self Service (CUSS) Kiosks
Benefits to customers: Easier and faster passage through the airport Faster check-in Remote check-in capabilities (car parks, hotels.
car rental return facilities) reduce airport queues
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Common Use Self Service (CUSS) Kiosks
Benefits to airlines: Economies of scale benefits from shared common- use
terminals Reduces airport counter requirements Improves staff productivity Generates average per check-in saving of US$2.50 40% market penetration of self-service check-in will
save $US1 billion per year
Source: IATA
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Common Use Self Service (CUSS) Kiosks
Benefits to airports: Improved capacity utilisation limiting the
need for expensive infrastructure development
Managing the concourse "real-estate" to improve process flow for airlines and passengers
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Bar-Coded Boarding Passes (BCBP)
Bar coded boarding passes, one of IATA's five Simplifying the Business initiatives. Equipped to handle at counter and gates, old magnetic stripe as well as IATA industry standard 2D bar codes that take advantage of the efficiencies offered by the industry's conversion to 100% electronic ticketing.
The goal is to reduce lines at airports and reduce airline costs associated with check-in processes.
Customers will be empowered to print their own boarding pass at home or at the office and thus avoid queues for check-in.
Airlines will have more options for providing boarding passes using different technologies.
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Thank You !
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