Velissarios Eleftheriou, A-CDM Implementation Manager, Dubai Airports, United Arab Emirates

Speaker Biograghy: Velissarios (Velis) joined Dubai Airports in May 2011 and is currently the A-CDM Implementation Manager. He has 22 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 worked on Hochtief, Athens International Airport, Eurocontrol Airport CDM projects 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. Personal fact: Velis has been windsurfing since 1981 (and still loving it), and is a certified chocoholic.


Day 1 - 15 March
Session: Management & Operations

12:10 - 12:35 - Deciphering TAM – from concept to phased implementation
Synopsis: Total Airport Management (TAM) is a promising but broad concept. This presentation describes a proposed methodology to implement TAM through well-defined, proven and relatively simple steps. The proposed methodology builds on elements from airport collaborative decision making (A-CDM), turnaround integration in trajectory and network (TITAN), trajectory-based operations (TBO) and airport optimisation. Exactly like with A-CDM, the priority lies in well-defined and robust processes prior to any advanced IT tool implementation.

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Day 1 - 15 March
Session: Management & Operations

16:35 - 17:30 - PANEL DISCUSSION: From A-CDM towards Total Airport Management: Experience & views of the practitioners
Synopsis: Velissarios Eleftheriou and Marcelo Mota will each make a five minute presentation prior to discussion and followed by Q&A with the audience.

Day 2 - 16 March
Session: Management & Operations

12:35 - 13:00 - Benefits of EASA rules beyond Europe – DXB case study
Synopsis: The aerodrome regulations (Regulation EU No 139/2014) prepared by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) are now in force in all EASA member states. For aerodromes within the scope of the regulations, these new standards supersede the national implementation of ICAO requirements. The new regulations constitute a paradigm shift, as aerodrome operators are now required to demonstrate compliance based on documentation. However, there are also opportunities as aerodromes may use alternative means than the one proposed by EASA to comply with a rule, and deviations to the applicable specifications for airport planning can be tolerated in a defined manner.

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