A major airport in America with two parallel runways wants to grow further to achieve the plans defined within its Master Plan. Necessarily this means that air traffic services need to accompany in this road of growth, so that it can operate more than the current over 300,000 annual aircraft movements.
One of the actions that would enable such growth was the specialisation of roles in regard to air traffic services, and precisely the establishment of a separate dedicated unit for Apron Management Services (AMS). This new unit would alleviate the incumbent air traffic control unit, so that their resources can focus on the taxiway and runway system.
DFS Aviation Services was contracted to assess the feasibility of establishing a separate dedicated unit for Apron Management Services (AMS), which would consider the specifics of the status quo within that airport, the proposal of how the new service could be (operationally and financially), its potential location, technology and ATM-Systems, and a detailed action plan and schedule to implement the new service. The outcome of the project enabled the customer to make an informed decision on whether to maintain AMS within the ANSP, or whether to externalise it.
