Speaker Biograghy: Christian founded Beontra (formerly Symbios) in 2001, with the vision to provide infrastructure providers with corporate planning solutions centralising knowledge, while speeding up and integrating corporate planning. In recent years, Christian has developed Beontra into a global leader for infrastructure planning software currently used by approximately 50 airport operators worldwide.


Day 1 - 25 March
Session: Management & Operations (inc ACDM, ATC & TAM)

14:30 - 15:00 - Forecasting and managing growth at Dubai Airports
Synopsis: Dubai Airports, managing Dubai International Airport (DXB) and Dubai World Central (DWC), oversees the fastest-growing airport system in the world. This challenge requires a strong and skilled team and integrated planning processes, as well as high-quality methodologies and toolsets to boost the output and productivity of the team. The presentation provides insight into Dubai Airports' approach to forecasting passenger and air traffic movements from short to long term, and translating this into resource demand scenarios as the basis for infrastructure extension planning and operations planning. Lowered total process costs and better passenger experience are the results Dubai Airports is aiming for.

Audience will learn:

• Contribution of state-of-the-art schedule forecasting and capacity planning to growth management and to support an efficient passenger flow and improved passenger experience
• Best practices of schedule forecasting and capacity planning
• Generation of realistic short-term, mid-term and long-term unconstrained schedules as well as runway, stand or terminal constrained schedules
• Generation of capacity planning scenarios based on forecasting schedules