India Aviation ICT Forum - P.S. Nair, CEO - Corporate, Airport Sector, GMR Airports Limited

Editor's Notes

• #3: From an Airport Operator’s perspective, delivering the promise of an improved travel experience / delight and still operating the airport profitably in a highly regulated environment is tough.Runway airside facilities including parking stands, PTB, car parks etc. are scarce and costly resources.Therefore, they are to be optimally utilized;especially to meet the constant increase in air traffic.Collaboration and Innovation are the key to improve bottom line.
• #4: [Talks about collaboration]As I said, Collaboration amongst all stakeholders is the key to operate efficiently in the complex value chain of aviation industry in general and airport sector in particular.ACDM which encourages Airport Operators, Airlines, Ground Handlers, ATC, Network Manager Operation Center and AOCC to practice a more efficient and transparent cooperation to enhance the air traffic flow and the capacity management at an airport and en-route is the ideal platform for such collaboration
• #5: Communication among these entities take place at a different pace and they are not at all in sync. It’s like each entity working in silos. This gives rise to constraints and bottlenecks. Since communication does not happen concurrently, delay occurs in dissemination amongst these agencies which has a cascading effect in terms of service standards and handling costs.
• #6: Let us see how the cloud partners are in sync when a CDM airport would like to communicate about the last minute allocation of a gate or a stand to a particular airline.This way of dissemination of information, communication and action helps the entire team to be aware of the real time scenario enabling each stakeholder to act spontaneously at the same time This ensures the cloud partners to be pro-active and gear up for instant action and delivery.
• #7: Yet another example that shows information originating from ATC and how this information is disseminated to other cloud partners
• #8: Advantages of Airport CDM to various stakeholdersAirlineAirportAir Traffic ControlGround HandlersIn a subsequent slide, I shall explain the cost savings in numerical terms.
• #9: A-CDM has been successfully implemented in US
• #10: InEuropean Union Airports, 30+ airports have CDM projects running.In fact ACDM concept was brought to Europe by IATA experts.Munich has a truly advanced and fully operational A-CDM functioning since June 2007 which is touted as the role model.
• #11: The benefits to the cloud partners and the total costs incurred by each of them for implementing A-CDM are represented in the above graph.The main insight is that costs are very small compared to the benefits.On the benefit side, airspace users i.e. airlines are the biggest beneficiaries, followed by the Airport Operators and the Ground Handlers. ATC recorded the smallest quantifiable benefit ; but the highest qualitative improvements in the work processes.
• #12: The graph above illustrates how the cumulative benefits are higher than the cumulative costs from the second year onwards for all the partners.The main insight is that Airport CDM is very beneficial for the overall community with modest costs. Airlines and GH will achieve the Break Even point in year 1 and the Airports and ATC in year 2
• #13: The capital's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) has become the first airport in the country to introduce Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM). The initiative has been jointly taken up by the Air Traffic Control (ATC), the GMR Group-led consortium DIAL and the airlines operating from the airport. Delhi A-CDM was launched on the World Environment Day, 5th June 2013. Themove will help achieve annual savings at IGI Airport of 2500 tons ATF and also leading to 7850 tons of saved CO2 emission by reducing the taxiway time by even a mere one minute per aircraft. In addition, with three operating runways and the upcoming state-of-the art ATC tower, IGI Airport is poised to handle robust air traffic with even betteraccuracy and efficiency."
• #14: This slide summarizes usage of different technologies to optimize passenger flow at various phases of a passenger’s journey. These technologies have been successfully infused in various airports around the world. They ensure that passengers have an improved travel experience without compromising on security and at the same time would increase the profitability of stakeholders. These are all technologies that can be implemented in the Indian context in a short term horizon.NFC stands for near field communicationRFID means radio frequency identification. E‑ZPass is an electronic toll-collection system used on most tolled roads, bridges, and tunnels in the northeastern United States, south to North Carolina, and west to Illinois. Lane in Massachusetts (now also branded simply as E-ZPass).QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode)
• #15: This and the next slide will give an insight of the future & upcoming technologies. It can be safely predicted that Travelling in 2025 will be hassle free, as technology will make the experience of a passenger like a walk in the park.
• #16: Come 2020s, the three levels of a security check at airports is going to be : Level -1. “Enhanced” for the closely watched, Level -2. “Normal” for most people and Level -3. “Known traveler” for those who belong to a pre-screening program.
• #17: In conclusion I would like to say that for shaping the future together, we all need to collaborate and promote CDM.