Airline and Airport Operational Efficiency

The ILS ground inspection intervals can be extended, which reduces the interference of ground inspections with operational use of the runway.

The rapid growth of demand in recent years has outpaced capacity and this has led to increasing delays at Schiphol. One of the sources of delays is the occurrence of so called ‘traffic bunches’, short periods of over-delivery of traffic, at the boundary of the Amsterdam FIR. Traffic bunches create high workload for the controllers […]

Managing Turnaround Priorities The infrastructure of Schiphol is very capital intensive and it is therefore important that utilization thereof is maximized. This requires optimal use of runways, taxiways, gates and parking stands. Based on the currently available infrastructure, MovingDot and NLR explored potential priority rules to help optimize the airport throughput, specifically for the management […]

The glass is half full; Increasing Schiphol DCL Utilisation to improve the outbound process  Can we realise short-term improvements to the outbound process by reducing the workload for controller and pilots? This depends on increased use of ACARS for pre-departure clearance (DCL). This is the result of the KDC project, ‘Optimising Outbound Cluster (2017)’. The […]

Schiphol might seem rather chaotic, but it’s not!  To an outsider, Schiphol is so busy that it may seem rather chaotic. The airport is constantly swarming with aircrafts, vehicles, buses and pushback trucks. There’s little room for manoeuvre, with aircrafts constantly taxiing and being towed and pushed back. How can Schiphol carry on growing amidst […]

Can efficiency be improved even further? The control tower at Schiphol-Centre (TWR) is a hive of activity: runway controllers, ground controllers, assistants, AAS gate planners, AAS bus coordinators and many others constantly strive to ensure that traffic flows smoothly at the airport. But how does this work in practice? How do these individuals cooperate with […]

Greater runway capacity thanks to shorter distances Tailgating. An irritating and dangerous habit on the roads. This doesn’t happen in the air. Aircraft need a safe distance from one another. If the second aircraft is too close behind the first, it can be affected by wake turbulence. That’s why a minimum distance is prescribed between […]

Queue here! How do we manage 500,000 aircraft manoeuvres in 2020?  Statistics don’t lie. Air traffic has increased dramatically over the past couple of years. In 2015, over 450,000 aircraft took off and landed at Schiphol. This figure will rise to 475,000 in 2016. We expect the number of aircraft manoeuvres to grow to 500,000 […]