Speaker Biograghy: Gudmundur Karl has been working in the Operation Research Department at Keflavik International Airport for the past seven year. His main focus is to improve the flow of passengers and maximise the capacity of the airport. Gudmundur was the Project Manager for ABC gate implementation in 2017, TRS implementation at security in 2015 and SSBD implementation at check-in in 2015.


Day 3 - 22 March
Session: Increasing Airport Capacity

12:25 - 12:55 - JIT approach in border control
Synopsis: Keflavik Airport studies the current practices of when gate numbers are displayed to passengers and the effect this has on border control at Keflavik. Based on the study of these practices, a simple model was developed with the objective of minimising the queue time at Border Control by displaying the gate number at different times for different flights. Keflavik will explain the simple idea around the model and share the outcome of its tests and how the borders have been affected.

Audience will learn:

• New ways of controlling queue sizes at border control
• Reduce waiting times at Border control.
• The effect of displaying go to gate at different times.
• Discussion on how this might effect revenue.