JCAA AVIATION SEMINAR

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JCAA AVIATION SEMINAR

• Optimizing Airport Capacity to Meet Growth in
  Air Commerce

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Airport Capacity Factors

• Runway Capacity
• Taxiway Capacity
• Apron Capacity
• Terminal Capacity
• Flight Scheduling

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Runway Capacity

• Factors affecting RWY capacity
• Runway configuration length
• Aircraft mix (Wide body, Narrow body . to GA)
• RWY occupancy time
• Aircraft separation
• Weather
• Noise

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Taxiway Capacity

• Taxiway Capacity
• Number of taxiways
• Configuration
• Rapid Exit
• Parallel and link
• RWY/Taxiway separation compliance
• Weather

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Apron Capacity

• Multiple Aircraft Ramp System (MARS)
• Apron Configuration
• Aircraft Mix
• Distance of Gates from Central Processing Area
• Aircraft Docking System
• ATC procedures
• Apron Management System
• Loading Bridge Vs Pax Stairs

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Passenger Terminal

• Passenger Processing Systems
• Security Processing
• Border Control Processing
• Customs Processing
• Terminal Configuration
• Central Lounge Vs Gate Lounge
• Space adequacy
• Information and Communication
• Baggage Handling Systems

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The Efficient Airport of the Future (SITA)
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Expected Check-in Business Process Changes

• Check-in moves out of the terminal to the
  passenger
• 40 50 Web check-in
• 20 30 Kiosk check-in
• 10 20 Mobile check-in
• 10 20 Agent check-in
• Airlines move to low cost virtual branding rather
  than expensive branding based on physical airport
  space
• Airports move to common use infrastructure

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Boarding at the Gate
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Self-boarding gates
Fast Track Lane
Source IER
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Border Control (SITA)
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Expected Changes in the Baggage Business Processes

• Passengers tagging own bags
• At home with new permanent RFID tags
• At the terminal with kiosks
• Passengers paying for off site bag processing at
  ships, hotels, resorts and convention centers
• Off site bags delivered directly airside for
  screening
• Airport terminal bag processing taking 15 30
  seconds
• Access passenger PNR and check documents
• Turn Inactive tags Active
• At general drop off station rather than airline
  dedicated counters
• (SITA)

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Integrated Baggage Management / RFID
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Impact on Security business processes

• Data mining and data linking identify suspicious
  persons who get preferential screening
  attention
• New physical security technologies provide faster
  walk through screening processes
• Registered traveler programs help pay for the
  technology

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• But optimizing passenger processes only moves
  the airports constraint to the ramp or airfield

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Impact on Airport Design and Operation

• Terminal efficiency increases significantly,
  allowing the process of 30 to 60 more passenger
  within the same infrastructure
• Airports facilitates shared passenger flow rather
  than airline specific passenger flow
• Airports provide a shared IT infrastructure
  allowing information interchange and
  collaborative decision making
• Airports need less space for passenger processing
• Airports use space for retail business and social
  interaction rather than queuing and processing

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Airport business model evolution
Airport tenants requirements become more
sophisticated as back and front office systems
develop
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Emergence of the Aerotropolis

• Airports today are much more than aviation
  infrastructures. They have become multimodal,
  multifunctional enterprises generating
  significant commercial development within and
  well beyond their boundaries.

Just as we have Central Cities and the
greater Metropolis, we now have Airport
Cities and the greater Aerotropolis. - Tae Hoon
Oum President, The Air Transport Research
Society
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Summary

• New business processes and technologies are being
  deployed today to
• Speed up passenger processing while enhancing
  security
• Facilitate faster turn around times
• Allow existing terminals to handle 30 to 60 more
  passengers
• However it is only possible if
• Information is interchanged between all
  stakeholders
• Processes and technologies follow some reasonable
  standards and sensibility to deployment cost to
  ensure adoptions
• Airport designs incorporate the new concepts
• (SITA)

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NMIA Modernization Programme

• Capital Development Programme Phase 1A
• Terminal Systems Enhancements

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NMIA Common Use Systems

• CUNI Common Use Network Infrastructure
• CUPPS System (Check-In Counters Gates)
• CUSS Kiosks
• Local Departure Control System (LDCS)
• Dynamic Signage (Airline counter identification)
• Scales, Baggage Conveyors, X-Ray Machine
• Common Use Telephone System

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Common Use Network Infrastructure (CUNI)

• NMIA has implemented a robust, high speed, common
  use network infrastructure (CUNI) based on fibre
  optic technology across the airport for use by
  all airport tenants.
• This has allowed NMIA to run operations from one
  common network, eliminating the costs of building
  and maintaining separate systems for data, video
  and voice.
• The network is centrally managed, which enables
  NMIA to respond faster to operational issues.

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Common Use Network Infrastructure (CUNI)

• Connecting Users The network has enabled new
  operating efficiencies among airport personnel
  security, airlines, customs, immigration, and has
  improved customer service and access to various
  services by airport customers and passengers.
• Connecting Systems - The network - facilitates
  new applications increased productivity and cost
  efficiencies for airport operations. It has
  enabled enhanced processes, such as passenger
  processing systems (CUPPS CUSS) utilizes audio
  paging and video-on-demand to deliver multimedia
  content to flight information monitors and
  airport lounges.
• Most importantly, the infrastructure upgrades
  ensure a highly-secure and reliable network.

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Common Use Network Infrastructure (CUNI)

• The network has become the most important piece
  of infrastructure we own, as every facet of our
  business is now connected including check-in and
  boarding systems, baggage management, immigration
  and passport control, CCTV, access control,
  paging, building management, flight/baggage/gate
  information systems and voice systems.

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Common Use Passenger Processing System (CUPPS)

• CUPPS is an upgrade of the Common Use Terminal
  Equipment (CUTE) system and provides a
  standardised system platform for common use
  implementation at airports.
• Deployed at NMIA since opening of expanded and
  modernized terminal in 2007 to optimise check-in
  counter and gate resources for airlines.

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CUPPS in the Caribbean

• Jamaica NMIA and MBJ
• Barbados
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Grenada
• Curacao
• Note AAJ had introduced a partial a partial
  CUTE system (i.e. Local Departure Control System
  (LDCS) at SIA in 2001 for handling agents and
  gate management.

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NMIA - Check-in Counter allocation Pre and Post
CUPPS

• Airlines Before After
• Air Canada - 6 6
• Air Jamaica - 21 20 (12)
• American Airlines - 12 6 (8)
• British Airways - 7 6
• Caribbean Airlines - 5 6
• Virgin Atlantic - - 14
• Handling Agents
• AJAS - 12 6 per flight
• Jamaica Dispatch - 5 6 per flight
• TOTAL 68 54 in use
• Cayman Airways, COPA, Delta, Spirit, SkyKing,
  Jet Blue

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CUPPS Counter Components

• Workstation (Computer)
• Keyboard with integrated OCR MSR
• Airline Ticket Boarding Pass Printer (ATB)
• To support magnetically encoded ATB2 documents,
  1D Bar Code and the new 2D Bar Code (PDF417)
• Bag Tag Printer (BTP)
• Boarding Gate Reader (BGR)
• Multi-Function Document Reader (MFDR)

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Local Departure Control System (LDCS)

• The CUPPS system allows scheduled airlines access
  to their own host departure control systems
• Carriers without a dedicated system, have access
  to the Local Departure Control System (LDCS)
  which allows participation in the Common Use
  environment

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Common Use Self Service (CUSS) Kiosks

• Self-service check-in kiosks facilitates a faster
  check-in process, especially for passengers with
  no checked baggage.
• CUSS) kiosks provides similar benefits to CUPPS
  in the form of operational flexibility and
  reduced costs of ownership to the airlines and
  the airport.
• 6 CUSS Kiosks installed at NMIA to be increased
  to 10.

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Common Use Self Service (CUSS) Kiosks

• Benefits to customers
• Easier and faster passage through the airport
• Faster check-in
• Remote check-in capabilities (car parks, hotels.
  car rental return facilities) reduce airport
  queues

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Common Use Self Service (CUSS) Kiosks

• Benefits to airlines
• Economies of scale benefits from shared common-
  use terminals
• Reduces airport counter requirements
• Improves staff productivity
• Generates average per check-in saving of US2.50
• 40 market penetration of self-service check-in
  will save US1 billion per year
• Source IATA

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Common Use Self Service (CUSS) Kiosks

• Benefits to airports
• Improved capacity utilisation limiting the need
  for expensive infrastructure development
• Managing the concourse "real-estate" to improve
  process flow for airlines and passengers

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Bar-Coded Boarding Passes (BCBP)

• Bar coded boarding passes, one of IATA's five
  Simplifying the Business initiatives. Equipped to
  handle at counter and gates, old magnetic stripe
  as well as IATA industry standard 2D bar codes
  that take advantage of the efficiencies offered
  by the industry's conversion to 100 electronic
  ticketing.
• The goal is to reduce lines at airports and
  reduce airline costs associated with check-in
  processes.
• Customers will be empowered to print their own
  boarding pass at home or at the office and thus
  avoid queues for check-in. 
• Airlines will have more options for providing
  boarding passes using different technologies.

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Thank You !

• Questions