Speaker Biograghy: Giovanni has 25 years' experience in both civil and military aviation. After his military service as an air traffic controller, he joined the civil air navigation service provider (Skyguide) to become an en-route air traffic controller in both Geneva and Zurich. Meanwhile he studied Maths and Computer Science at Fernuniversitaet Hagen (Germany) and accomplished an Aviation MBA at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). Subsequently he held several management positions within Skyguide before joining Zurich Airport's operator in 2008 as Head Planning and Engineering first and, since January 2017, as Head Flight Operation. Giovanni represents ACI-Europe on the Network Management Board.


Day 1 - 14 March
Session: Management & Operations

14:45 - 15:15 - Role of airports in the air traffic management network
Synopsis: Airports are the start and end point of each and every journey with air transport. Therefore airports play an essential role in the air traffic management (ATM) network. In early 2000s the main challenge was in the en-route part of ATM, but today airports and high-density terminal areas have increasingly become the constraining factors of the network. Therefore the involvement of airports is a crucial success factor for European network management.

Audience will learn:

• Role of airports in the air traffic management network
• The ground coordinator concept
• Mandatory enhancements for selected airports (SESAR deployment)