Air Traffic Management:

Future Prospects and Strategies

Yasmine El Alj Julia Griese Nuria Margarit

Stephan Wilde Margarita Marinova Dorthe Windeck
Markus Witte Alexander Zock Angela Won

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 Agenda

Introduction

Infrastructure/ Regulations

Market Mechanisms

Operations/ Technology
 What is Air Traffic Management (ATM)

 ATM provides for safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air

traffic both in the air and on the ground*
 Division of airspace

 Vertical (upper/lower airspace, approach) and horizontal

(regional/national)
sector provider 4

sector
sector provider 3
provider 2

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Quelle: INCAS-Studie
sector provider 1

 Defined flight routes and beacons for

navigation
 Controllers optimize trajectories

* Source: Recherche ENAC

 Current European ATM situation

Constraints in Capacity Unilateral Cost Burden

• Large military airspace • Non-negotiable ATC

• Low ATC productivity
charges
• No growth potential
•Risk-free ATC
• Full skies

Lufthansa’s Motivation for Change

• Growth Strategy
• Stay Cost Competitive
• Drive innovation
Infrastructure/Regulation
 Potential ATM development
Today Tomorrow
Organization Organization
 Monolithic structure  Multiple authorities
(infrastructure, service,
pricing)
Infrastructure European
Commission (EC) Infrastructure

ATC

Airlines
technology

Procedures, technology
 47 ATC-organizations
Procedures, technology
 22 operating systems  Standardization
 30 programming  1 ATC-organization
languages  1 operating system
 ATM data sharing via “ATM portal”
 Share all data – real time
 Airlines and ATM supply all data
decision
 Create ATM portal to process data
and supply it in a meaningful
format
 Advantages
Airlines Standardized interface and
ATM EC, gov’t

(lobbying, information (e.g. via web)
incentives)  Airline can anticipate congestion
 Can adapt routing real time with
adaptive decision making
 Provision of digital data
automatically (static & dynamic)
ATM portal
 Obstacles
 ATM labor force
decision  Security
Dynamic and flexible airspace utilization
 Optimize special use airspace
(SUA) utilization dynamically in a
collaborative fashion
 Differentiate SUA (core, temporary)
Incentives  Optimal use of temporal SUA windows
(airline  military)
 Integrated civil & military ATM
Technology
 Supply of real time digital data
 Advantages
 More useable airspace (increases
capacity)
 Starting strategic cooperation
between airlines and military
 Obstacles
 Ability to incorporate this data for
flight planning
 Security
 Establish collaboration with military
Market Mechanisms
 Market mechanisms require a new
relationship between airlines and ATC

European ATC Interaction Airlines

New compensation • Differentiation in ATC Slot/Holding time

scheme for controllers services offered to airlines Exchange System
• Airport/Route congestion
pricing
• Airlines/ATC performance
monitoring and penalty system
 Differentiation in ATC services offered to
airlines
 Possibilities for service differentiation
ATC
 Airline given priority in the
airspace/airport system in
Service exchange for a higher ATC
charges
C C C  Airlines pooling resources
together to pay ATC for extra
„One for all“ service during peak hours
Leasing of „exclusive“ airways
ATC


(e.g. Star Alliance North Atlantic

Route“)
S S S S  Advantages
better punctuality for airlines
C C C


willing to pay extra cost

„One for each“  new sources of revenue for ATC
 Airline ATC clearing house collaboration concept

 Prerequisite: Agreement and negotiation

Clearing house on standard gate-to-gate performance
benchmarks and penalities
 Clearing house
 Penalty System: entity responsible for
ATC Airline the system disruption penalized through
Penalty bonus/malus system
airline should depart at scheduled time
System 

 ATC should provide agreed-upon service

performance
 Exchange System between airlines: can
Exchange Airline exchange slots and holding time
priorities
System
 Database containing all data tracked and
Airline bonus points will be accessible to all
stakeholders (ATC/ Airlines)
 Advantages of clearing house collaboration
Airlines
 Requirements for on-time
performance will be met
 Real-time trade-off between
punctuality and cost through
exchange program
 Stable scheduling process
=> reduction in delay costs;
better aircraft utilization
 Reduced crew costs
ATC
 Better planification for lower
airspace/ landing approach
 Bonus for performing at
agreed-upon service levels
 Transparency allows ATC not
to be blamed
 ATC is under no obligation to
meet standard
 Gate-to-gate time if airline
not departing on-time
 New revenue source for ATC
Operations and Technology
 Better utilization of existing system
 Solutions to overloading of airspace at peak times
 Expand schedule:
 Low price tickets at low peak times

 Premium price tickets at high peak times

 Use secondary airports and enhance intermodality
 Advantages:
 Create additional capacity
 Add value to different customer segments
 Obstacles:
 Regulation of night flying (curfews)
 Limited public transportation at night
 Labor issues
 Unification of flight segments
 Reduction of ATC complexity by:
 Standardizing of existing ATM procedures and technologies
 Assigning one controller per flight from departure to landing
 Advantages:
 Seamless ATC experience
 Increased staffing flexibility
 Less controllers in low traffic segments
 Obstacles:
 Regulation issues
 New training concepts
 Redefinition of controllers
 ATC of the future

Aircraft at
No pilots high altitude

No
controller
s New navigation
systems
Questions