Airport and ATM Performance

Optimising ATC, airspace, airfield, and terminal operations to support recovery, improve efficiency, and prepare airports for future growth.

Overview

The airport industry is dynamic and constantly evolving. After years of strong growth, airports have faced major challenges following pandemic-related traffic reductions, while still needing to respond to issues such as social distancing, testing and screening in the terminal, and the management of grounded aircraft.

As airports plan for recovery, efficiency and resilience will be critical. Returning traffic levels will need to be handled safely with lower cost and staff bases, making it essential for airports to understand how performance will change, plan ahead for key investments, recruitment, and process changes, and ensure they are ready to support future growth safely and efficiently.

Our Approach

How We Can Help

We are leaders in airport performance, recovery, capacity assessment, and optimisation. Our broad understanding of ATC, airspace, airfield, apron, and terminal issues allows us to tailor our approach to each airport, rather than relying on a single method or tool for every challenge.

On the terminal side, we support airports of all sizes with process optimisation, biometric technology planning, regulatory compliance, security lane reopening strategies, and boarding and disembarkation processes as traffic returns. On the airfield and airspace side, we help model, simulate, assess, and validate airport developments and ATC solutions, from smaller procedural changes to entirely new airports. We can support work on operational challenges, capacity recovery, new ATC systems and technologies such as TBS, RECAT, and PBN, and long-term resource optimisation for future traffic growth.

Our roots are in European research programmes, with deep involvement in SESAR since 2004, from the Definition phase through Development and SESAR 2020. This gives us a strong understanding of ATM R&D, emerging technologies, and what it takes to move a concept successfully towards implementation.

Get in Touch

Let’s discuss your next ATM or airport project and how we can support it.