Speaker Biograghy: Velissarios (Velis) Eleftheriou joined Dubai Airports in May 2011 and is currently the A-CDM Implementation Manager. He has 21 years of air traffic management and airport planning, operations, training and consulting experience. Following his Transport Engineering studies, Velis started his aviation career as a licensed air traffic controller at the Eurocontrol Maastricht UAC. His last position was with the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). In between Velis has been working for Hochtief, Athens International Airport, Eurocontrol Airport CDM project and as a consultant on ATM and airport planning and expansion projects in Oman, India, Australia and several European countries. Velis is one of the founding members of the European A-CDM community. He specialises in airport safety, capacity and efficiency enhancement projects and in airport-ATC liaison management.


Day 1 - 10 March
Session: Management & Operations

09:35 - 10:00 - High-intensity single-runway operations at DXB – CDM lessons learned
Synopsis: Dubai International (DXB) closed one of its two runways for a period of 80 days starting 01 May 2014 for essential pavement rehabilitation and upgrade works. Following up from last year’s presentation, where all the planning and readiness aspects were presented, it is time to review the entire exercise. In order to ensure maximum operational efficiency, optimum airport slot utilisation and swift recovery from possible disruption, the airport established specific procedures according to the A-CDM principles. The presentation will describe the specific CDM procedures, their results and how they will evolve to standard operating procedures (SOP) for daily operations.

Audience will learn:

• How the airport performed during the 80 days of high-intensity single-runway operations
• Which CDM procedures have been implemented
• Lessons learned from this exercise
• Which special procedures will evolve into daily SOP