Speaker Biograghy: Miyamoto-san joined Narita International Airport Corporation (NAA) in 1986. Over the past three decades he has been involved in projects covering a wide range of important topics such as environment, local community relationship, passenger terminal management, IT planning and human resource management. Miyamoto-san also served with the Research & Planning Division of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) in Japan on a secondment mission for two years. Since 2008, Miyamoto-san has been working as a Vice President at the Corporate Strategies & Planning Division in charge of special projects.


Day 2 - 11 March
Session: IATA Day

11:00 - 11:30 - Panel Discussion: The airport capacity enhancement at Narita Airport
Synopsis: NAA, which manages Tokyo’s Narita Airport, engaged IATA and jointly launched a project in 2014 to conduct a study on challenges and opportunities for the implementation of Fast Travel initiatives for international travellers at Narita Airport. Through the study, IATA provided recommendations on how the various Fast Travel initiatives should be implemented and integrated with the existing operations environment at Narita Airport. The implementation issues and challenges, as well as impact on terminal capacity and operations, have been studied thoroughly. Narita International (NRT) is the launch airport for this innovative project with IATA.

Audience will learn:

• What Narita airport aims to do
• Joint project with IATA
• Potential of Fast Travel initiatives
• Future plan