Airport, ATM and Air Operations Consulting & Engineering

Company Egis Avia
Date 22.02.2011

MAESTRO Departure Manager (DMAN) has been in service since 9 November 2010 at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. The system contributed to the accreditation of the Airport-Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) label on November 16th 01h UTC for Paris-CDG.
 
Collaborative Decision Making at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDM@CDG) aims to improve coordination between airport stakeholders (airport operator, airlines, traffic control) for an optimum utilisation of airport capacity and smoother traffic flows. The system is composed of both MAESTRO DMAN for the air traffic control part and the Gestion Locale des Départs (GLD) provided by Aéroports de Paris for the airport part.
 
DMAN is a component of the MAESTRO system co-developed by Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne (DSNA) and Egis Avia. Technically, MAESTRO DMAN provides a pre-departure sequence to regulate and minimise aircraft queues at runway threshold. It compiles and processes air traffic management and airport data. It actually assigns each aircraft a runway and a trajectory at Paris-CDG Airport based on runway configuration and capacity, potential closure, and the strategy decided by the ATC tower chief. The controller uses a specific interface to give departure or start-up clearances at the most appropriate time in order to fuel runways depending on their capacity, hence reducing delays and aircraft congestion.
 
Paris-CDG is the first airport in importance to be accredited with the A-CDM certification and the third airport in Europe after Munich and Brussels. The label is delivered by Eurocontrol’s Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU) to acknowledge the achievement of an information-sharing process between all airport stakeholders. CFMU hence devolves to Paris-CDG airport the management of departing aircraft. The system benefits to airlines through a reliable and reactive process as they no longer have to wait for time slots allocated by CFMU. The successful coordination between the teams of Egis Avia, DSNA, Aéroports de Paris and Air France, as well as the quick familiarisation of operational staff with the system contributed to this milestone. It significantly improves the airport’s performance and the predictability of traffic for the benefit of the whole European network.
 
At the heart of the system and through this project, MAESTRO DMAN also yields reduced environmental nuisance through lower emissions, noise and fuel consumption thanks to notable cuts in taxiing and waiting time (2 minutes less by aircraft on average). The implementation is a success for the technical teams of Egis Avia who managed to transpose the DMAN concept to an operational system in less than two years; above all, it is a significant breakthrough in terms of sustainable air transport.
 
About MAESTRO
MAESTRO includes an Arrival Management feature (AMAN) which is already operational on 14 airports worldwide (Copenhagen, Helsinki, Paris-CDG, Paris-Orly, Lyon, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Le Cap, Stockholm, Dublin, Bangkok, and Brussels). Nice TMA (including Nice, Cannes and St Tropez airports), Taipei and Kaohsiung airports will be equipped too in the course of 2011. Beyond this worldwide implementation and the recent deployment of DMAN, MAESTRO gears up for the future as it enables efficient departure and arrival management for an airport, a terminal area or a region through a network of systems exchanging sequences from one site to another for the benefit of airlines (enhanced operations predictability, fuel savings), airports (optimised utilisation of capacity), environment (reduced gas emissions) and ATM (anticipation, planning, coordination and reduction of controllers’ workload).

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Egis Avia
Technopolis, 195 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
Executive Vice President (Operations): Cedric Barbier
Executive Vice President (Development): Francis Brangier
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