ICAO: Runway Safety Training

ICAO will partner with ACI, IATA and CANSO on new runway safety training initiative.The new online course has been specifically designed for air traffic controllers and aeronautical information service staff. It will be available for enrolment in April of this year on the ICAO Global Aviation Training website. The course complements existing courses developed in cooperation with Airports Council International (ACI) for airport operations staff, and with IATA for flight crews.

Airport Passenger Flow

Airports are essential for intercontinental trade and a key to the success of the global aviation industry. The common objective of all stakeholders in the airport chain is to satisfy the passenger while facing a significant number of challenges, including the continued growth of air traffic and its influence on airport capacity, the problem of congestion in peak hours, and all that result from queuing and boarding delays. This situation forces the managers of the airport to set up a better circuit of passengers, both at departure and on arrival. In fact, to achieve a better flow of passenger within the terminal, modeling is the first step towards developing and solving this problem. The present work aims to present the various models and approaches of simulation and optimization applied to the study of passenger flows and highlight their contributions to the good management and operation in a field as complex as that of airport operations.

The Resident Subsidy Impact on Regional Air Carrier Route Development: A Case Study

Subsidizing air mobility for Canary Island residents may have an unforeseen impact on regional air carrier route development and this could exacerbate congestion in airports that operate near to their maximum threshold. Reginal routes often require the use of small aircraft such as those from the ATR (Avions de Transport Régional) family. These aircraft types have [some specific characteristics related to its time performance. If airports manage a large proportion of ATR aircrafts, one of their main activities, such as landing and taking off operations (LTO), may become congested, and affect airport capacity. Air carrier economies might be negatively affected because of delays in airport operations. For instance, air carriers’ fuel costs might rise due to aircraft’s increased LTO time. This paper seeks to analyze the impact of regional aviation route development for the Canary airport network; specifically, the effect that it has on airport capacity and air carrier economies.

Pengalaman Penumpang Terhadap Penerapan Digitalisasi Fasilitas Bandara di Bandara Udara Kualanamu Medan

PT Angkasa Pura II manages Kualanamu Medan Airport. Kualanamu Airport has been develop airport digital facilities. The development of facility technology has aim to improve services for passengers and efficiency of airport operations. This research aims to identify passengers experience in order to improve services through digitizing airport facilities. The research method used descriptive analysis, multiple response analysis and crosstab (cross tabulation). The results has been show that Kualanamu Airport is smart (71.42%). Passengers need technological innovation and realtime facilities to help them in airport. Technological innovation required ie facilities for monitoring baggage and online reservations (74%), applications for shopping / restaurant / entertainmentat airports (73%), customs (70%), vehicle parking (69%) and check in (66%). Realtime Facility required ie facility for check-in (71%), flight schedules and monitoring of baggage movements (64%), airport information facilitiy and boarding gates (63%), vehicle parking at the airport (58%) and customs (54%).

The Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on Airport Operations

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which started in China as of December 2019, has spread all over the world and caused different adverse effects in each country. The coronavirus has affected millions of people around the world and caused thousands of deaths. The pandemic, which causes us to question our knowledge to be true and is a new factor that should be seen as a risk in future planning, has brought new regulations in all vital activities. The fact that airline transportation is one of the sectors most affected by coronavirus determined the scope of the study. Within the scope of the study, exploratory case study was preferred and how airport operations were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic was illustrated.