Speaker Biograghy: Juan Ramon has worked at Palma de Mallorca Airport since 2009. His first role was in the development of real-time management procedures as well as in the APOC definition and deployment project. In 2013 he moved onto the Operation Planning Department, where he is responsible for daily stand allocation, airport slot coordination, airport statistics reports as well as the airbridge service provider. He is also a member of the ACDM implementation project team. In parallel, since 2010 he has also been involved in the SESAR project, beginning with operational concept definition within the airport operations management project, continuing with participation in the TTA Management validation exercise at PMI in June 2013 (first attempt to validate the TTA concept in a real-time environment), then leading the validation exercise performed at PMI in July 2015 (addressed in this conference) and finally participating in a second validation of the TTA concept, held in May 2016.


Day 1 - 14 March
Session: Management & Operations

15:15 - 15:45 - Airport arrival management – a business collaborative approach
Synopsis: In a busy environment like the European ATM network, a lot of effort is being put into improving current ATM capacity and efficiency. One of the concepts being developed to improve efficiency is the Arrival Manager (AMAN). The AMAN uses a tactical approach, but at the end of the day what really matters to our customers is how efficient they have been in economic terms. We propose a business collaborative approach to solve DCB imbalances and reduce cost to the airport stakeholder. When a DCB problem is detected at an airport (such as reduced capacity caused by weather or an over delivery during a relatively short period), current ATFM measures applied to solve the DCB problem do not take into account the impact in the aircraft next leg – they are purely tactical measures that do not take into account the business needs of airlines. The same approach is used by the AMAN. In the presentation we will show how a business approach can be implemented to solve airport arrivals DCB problems combining the TTA (target time of arrival) with the airport stakeholder business needs to improve the overall cost impact for airlines and airport stakeholders.

Audience will learn:

• How airlines' business needs can be introduced into the resolution of an airport arrival DCB problem
• How the airports can have an active role in the ATM, improving the overall network performance
• How aircraft departure knock-on effect and delay can be reduced in congested situations
• How it can reduce the impact in terms of cost for the airlines