Robert Whitehouse, Director of Capacity Planning, Dubai Airports, United Arab Emirates

Speaker Biograghy: Rob's role covers all capacity planning areas and traffic forecasting for Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum. Prior to joining Dubai Airports, he was an Associate Director with Leigh Fisher, responsible for capacity planning and modelling. Rob worked with the consultancy for 19 years on various capacity planning projects at airports, international railway stations and other transportation projects across the world. A considerable proportion of his consultancy career was at Heathrow Airport, which he later joined, prior to Dubai Airports. Rob is now focused on the seasonal capacity declaration for both airports, identification of future capacity projects to accommodate growth, and the steering of major projects to ensure sufficient balanced capacity is achieved.


Day 3 - 17 March
Session:
Increasing Airport Capacity


09:30 - 09:55 - Capacity planning at the world's busiest international airport
Synopsis: Dubai is the world’s busiest international airport, with traffic levels approaching 80 MPPA. The unprecedented growth continually challenges the airport capacity. This presentation details some of the key capacity requirements and the various approaches that the airport is adopting to make best use of capacity and maximise throughput. The presentation will outline the approach that Dubai Airports undertakes in assessing capacity, including planning tools, declaration process and future strategies for managing demand capacity.

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