Airside Safety Survey 2015 3 Introduction

A DEFINITIVE SURVEY OF TECHNIQUES, EQUIPMENT INVENTORIES AND OPINION REGARDING ALL ASPECTS OF AIRFIELD OPERATIONS BY EUROPE’S AIRPORTS Anz.BAD airporta.inter 180x130 EN 2013_Anzeige 125 x89 4c 06.05.13 15:15 Seite 1 Multifunctional high-performance cleaning system for year-round use The various attachment spaces with quick-change equipment – in combination with the powerful vehicle hydraulic – enables an efficient and economic all-year round use. Marcel Boschung Ltd. Boschung Airport Division CH-1753 Matran I Switzerland Route des Muëses 2 I Tel. +41 26 4978585 www.boschung.com EDITORIAL Airports Council International European Region 10, Rue Montoyer (box No 9), 1000 Brussels, Belgium Director General Olivier Jankovec Tel: +32 (0)2 552 09 72 e-mail: [email protected] Manager: Safety, Capacity, ATM & Single European Sky Andrej Němec Tel: +32 (0)2 552 09 81 Fax: +32 (0)2 502 56 37 e-mail: [email protected] Director: Membership Services & Events Danielle Michel Tel: +32 (0)2 552 09 78 Fax: +32 (0)2 502 56 37 e-mail: [email protected] INTRODUCTION MAGAZINE STAFF: THE AIRSIDE SAFETY General Manager - Association Business Paul Sweeney Editor SURVEY 2015 Ross Falconer Deputy Editor Amy Hanna rom regional gateways such as BOB GRAHAM, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, BIRMINGHAM AIRPORT Head Designer F Budapest and Ljubljana to interna- Richard Jende tional hubs like Amsterdam Schiphol and What airside developments has your air- Graphic Designer Madrid-Barajas, the experiences and best port undertaken recently, or do you plan to Samita Brant practices of a broad range of airports, of undertake? Sales Director all sizes, are documented in this year’s Birmingham Airport has been undertaking major Jenny Rayner ACI EUROPE Airside Safety Survey – the investments over the past three years in its Managing Director essential reference guide to the airside airside infrastructure, with the most significant Paul J. Hogan operations and safety measures of ACI being a £65 million (€80m) runway extension EUROPE member airports. The survey and resurfacing. The runway at Birmingham has PPS Publications Ltd provides an all-encompassing picture of now been extended to over 3,000m, allowing a 3a Gatwick Metro Centre Balcombe Road the procedures integral to airport oper- much better capability for long haul operations. Horley ations, including winter services, friction We have recently opened a new £12 million Surrey RH6 9GA testing, runway incursion prevention, (€15m) ATC tower and replaced many of the United Kingdom crash fire rescue procedures, wildlife navigation aids including Radar and ILS. Tel: +44 1293 783851 control, and FOD detection. Submissions Are there any particular innovations you Fax: +44 1293 782959 are published unedited, ensuring a varied are applying airside at your airport? email: [email protected] and colourful range of responses with the We have recently invested in new ILS to both highest level of accuracy. As well as build- runways, installed LED lighting to the resurfaced Disclaimer ing a comprehensive picture of industry pavement, and resurfaced the main runway. For This publication has been compiled by PPS Publications Ltd. The survey responses are those trends in the use of equipment and air- the major works, we developed APV-Baro RNAV of the participating airports. The contents and opinions side techniques, the annual Airside Safety Approaches to both runways to mitigate periods expressed herein are not necessarily those Survey shines a light on the multitude of of known ILS outage and introduced an indus- of ACI EUROPE nor the Publisher. ACI EUROPE and PPS Publications accept no responsibility or liability conditions and diverse challenges present try-first ‘works-mode’ for the runway lighting that whether direct or indirect, as to the currency, accuracy on Europe’s airfields. To complement the sees the main guard lights extinguished and a or quality of the information, nor for any survey itself, we invited several airports to set of green ones illuminated when the runway is consequence of its use. share additional insights into their airside closed to clearly reinforce to the contractors that Cover image courtesy of Budapest Airport. safety strategies. it is safe to enter. © PPS Publications Ltd 2015 AIRSIDE SAFETY SURVEY 2015 3 INTRODUCTION What are the key airside safety challeng- ings. The installation and retracting of mobile LIBOR KURZWEIL, QUALITY, SAFETY AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT es you face at your airport in particular? markers are very easy – one airfield officer is DIRECTOR, PRAGUE AIRPORT Birmingham is a crosswind runway, so the se- enough to close and open the involved areas. lection of surface type and drainage are very What are the key airside safety challeng- What are the key airside safety challenges important. We chose to reinstall wide spaced es you face at your airport in particular? you face at your airport in particular? FAA specification grooving – often colloquially At Budapest Airport, in the near future, we Despite the fact that many procedural changes referred to as ‘tropical grooving’ – because are focusing on the certification process of in aircraft deicing took place in the last years experience with the previous surface had the airport based on 139/2014 EU Regu- and the process has been improved signifi- shown us that the wider grooving performed lation. Also a key issue will be in 2015 to cantly, it remains our main challenge. better in very heavy rain. implement the shotgun to improve the bird What, in your view, are the key elements of What, in your view, are the key elements and wildlife control. an effective airside safety strategy? of an effective airside safety strategy? What, in your view, are the key elements of At the highest level it is an understanding and Experienced management team leading an effective airside safety strategy? support of SMS by the top management of the competent and well-trained frontline teams, Training, training, training, and continuous company and the Airport Operations Manager. aligned with a thorough understanding of your monitoring of the airfield, implementing the At the practical level, maintaining and improving risks that allows resource to be prioritised new innovations. It is also very important to airside safety highly depends on good partner- to those areas where the need is greatest, standardise the airfield as we can. World- ship and communication with all stakeholders and where it can have the most significant wide or EU-wide standard TWY naming and involved in aircraft operations. results. stand ID systems. STEFFI BAUMGARTEN, SAFETY ZOLTÁN ORMÁNDI, HEAD OF MARTIN KUCERA, AIRPORT EXPERT, SAFETY OFFICE, ZURICH AIRSIDE MANAGEMENT, BUDAPEST OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, PRAGUE AIRPORT AIRPORT AIRPORT What airside developments has your airport What airside developments has your air- What airside developments has your airport undertaken recently, or do you plan to port undertaken recently, or do you plan undertaken recently, or do you plan to undertake? to undertake? undertake? GBAS: On 14 October 2014 the first landing At Budapest Airport we are analysing the The key element of our airport infrastructure using the precision landing system GBAS possibility of capacity improvement to install development is a parallel runway, which we (ground-based augmentation system) was reactive jetway equipped parking positions plan for operations in 2025 at the latest. used by a Swiss Airbus 320 at Zurich Airport. at Terminal 2. The main goal of the improve- An extension of terminal capacity will follow The new landing procedure now enables a ment process is to accommodate the second the runway project according to the traffic GPS approach from the north on runway 14 ICAO Code E aircraft at the non-Schengen demand. even in low cloud or poor visibility. EMAS: The apron not touching the passenger walking Are there any particular innovations you RESA of Runway 28 has a length of 90m. Due process of low-cost airlines. are applying airside at your airport? to topographical reasons an extension isn’t Are there any particular innovations you We made partial adjustments of the main practicable. In order to increase safety at the are applying airside at your airport? apron in order to increase the capacity for end of Runway 28, Zurich Airport is planning to To improve the efficiency of daily operations aircraft with a wingspan up to 36m. One install an Arrestor System. in 2014, the airport operator implemented stand is actually being redesigned for Code Are there any particular innovations you are the mobile runway and taxiway closing mark- F aircraft operations. applying airside at your airport? Zurich Airport has developed a special system for the handling of aircraft deicing wastewater, in which physical and chemical as well as natural degradation processes were conducted. Depend- ing on the carbon concentration, the wastewater will be delivered to the different processes. Furthermore, Zurich Airport has developed a new training programme for snow and ice removal, which can be used on mobile devices. What are the key airside safety challenges you face at your airport in particular? Zurich Airport has a complex layout, which reflects some safety challenges on a day- to-day basis during the operations, as well as on a safety strategy basis: The crossing of two runways and several dependencies between all three runways (safety, capacity, noise, responsibility). 4 AIRSIDE SAFETY SURVEY 2015 The Airside Safety Survey 2015 AMSTERDAM upon his or her knowledge of this handbook before Airport Surface Detection Equipment): they are allowed to work airside. Authority personnel All runways are protected by RIASS (Runway are trained in recognising FOD and removal of Incursion Alert System Schiphol). RIASS is ASMGCS dangerous objects and dirt on taxiways and runways. Level 2 and will sound an alert in the control tower b) Inspection by airline, airport, and airplane handling to warn ATC that a RI might occur (RIMCAS, but agency personnel: Airport Authority Officers see to it specially developed by LVNL.

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