Flýtilyklar
Conference Program and Proceedings
The First Aviation Leaders Forum on
Airports and Airlines Winter Operations
10 October 2011, Andrews Theater, Keflavik Airport, Iceland
Conference Program [PDF]
Conference Proceedings
To view conference proceedings and Powerpoint presentations, please click on the headlines of each presentation below.
- The priorities and pressures facing airports and their
regulators [PDF]
Ms. Angela Gittens, Director General - Airports Council International
FIRST SESSION – Airports and Airlines Winter Operations
What happened in the winters in 2009 and 2010 and what needs to be done?
Moderator: Corinne Belveze, DG Mobility and transport (MOVE)
- What happened in the winters in 2009 and 2010 and what needs to be done? Airlines
perspective [PDF]
Mr. Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus, Secretary General – AEA - Winter operations: A critical systemic process [PDF]
Mr. Maurice Georges, CEO – DSNA (French ANSP) - Winter operations – A safety perspective [PDF]
Mr. Gernot Kessler, Head of Airports Section, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) - What happened winter 2009-10 and what needs to be done? A network
perspective [PDF]
Mr. Brian Flynn, Head of Network Operations Services – EUROCONTROL - Winter operation at Genève Aéroport [PDF]
Mr. Robert Deillon, CEO – Geneve Airport
SECOND SESSION – Airports' Winter Operations
Airport Winter Operations
Moderator: Catherine Mayer, Vice President – SITA
- Focus areas for safe and efficient winter operations at Oslo Airport from opening in
1998 [PDF]
Mr. Einar Tafjord, Technical Director Air Traffic Services–Oslo Airport - Finnish Airport Snowhow [PDF]
Ms. Heini Noronen-Juhola, Vice President, Aviation & Safety – Helsinki Airport - Seattle-Tacoma International Airport – Winter operations program [PDF]
Mr. Michael Ehl, Director of Aviation Operations – Seattle-Tacoma Int. Airport - Denver International Airport-Winter operations program [PDF]
Mr. Ken Greene, Deputy Manager of Maintenance – Denver International Airport - Airport winter operations: Reporting winter contaminants [PDF]
Ms. Susan Gardner, Safety Analyst – FAA Airports Division
THIRD SESSION – Airlines' Winter Operations
Moderator: Ms. Narjess Teyssier, Chief Economic Analysis and Policy – ICAO
- Icelandair's winter challenges [PDF]
Mr. Hilmar Baldursson, VP Flight Operations – Icelandair - Air Iceland's winter challenges [PDF]
Einar S Björnsson, Director Flight Operatios – Air iceland - Severe and normal operations in winter [PDF]
Mr. Mike Ambrose, Director General – ERA - airBaltic's winter challenges [PDF]
Mr. Janis Vanags, VP Corporate Communications – airBaltic
FOURTH SESSION – Airports and Airlines Winter Operations
The Global Economic and Business Dimension
Moderator: Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus, Secretary General, AE
- Airports and Airlines Winter Operations – the Global Economic and Business
Challenges [PDF]
Ms. Narjess Teyssier, Chief Economic Analysis and Policy – ICAO - Beautifying the beast: Challenges faced by tourism in winter
operations [PDF]
Dr. Andreas Papatheodorou, Senior Advisor DATTEA - Does the north/cold-south/warm divide have an impact on airports
efficiency? [PDF]
Dr. Rico Merkert, Head of Centre for Air Transport – Cranfield University - Can technology revolutionize winter operation of airports [PDF]
Dr. Thorgeir Palsson, Professor Reykjavik University, former Director General of ICAA
FIFTH SESSION – Weather forecasting, snow removal of runways, aircraft de-icing, training, etc.
Airports and Meteorological Technical Dimension
Moderator: Catherine Mayer, Vice President – SITA
- Winter Operations Management Program [PDF]
Mr. Richard van Bruygom, EVP – Swissport - Icelandic winter weather and the effects on airport operations [PDF]
Mr. Theodór Hervarsson, Director Warning Systems, Icelandic Meteorological Office - Callenges of aeronautical weather forecaster in winter time at high
latitudes [PDF]
Ms. Leena Neitiniemi-Upola, Meteorolog – Finnish Meteorological Institute - Airport weather preparedness and optimizing collaborative decision
making [PDF]
Mr. Søren Brodersen, Senior Meteorolog – Danish Meteorological Institute - Training for winter conditions at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol [PDF]
Mr. H.J. (Harmen) Abma, Senior R&D Engineer Training – National Aerospace Lab - Synergy of ground-based and space LIDAR and radiometer systems for warning and
monitoring of dangerous events in atmosphere [PDF]
Dr. Anatoli Chaikovsky, Institute of Physics of the Nat. Academy of Science in Belarus - US Air Force mobile navigation aids and remote NAVAID [PDF]
Mr. Edgar A. Wright, DAF Deputy Director Headquarters – Air Force Flight Standards
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