Airport Security

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Airport Security

• Impact on the Airport Revenue
• Experience of Benin

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• 1. Brief History about the Security in Africa
• 2. Brief Approach of the Audit Results of the
  African Aviation Security
• 3. Measures to face the requirements for the
  Aviation Security Case Study, Cotonou
  International Airport
• 4. Impact of the measures on the revenues
• 5. Recommendations

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• In 1989 in the majority of the African countries,
  issues related to civil aviation Security based
  on the norms and practices recommended by Annex
  17 of the Chicago Convention were not included in
  the documents or on a daily basis

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• In 1989 the explosion of an airplane from a
  French airline at Tenere in Niger at that
  timeUTA meant a considerably decrease in
  Security for the French speaking countries in
  Africa

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• France put a vast program in action
• Training of the first instructors
• Supply of Equipments
• Training on the radioscopic image

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• Adaptation to the terminal infrastructure to
  Security standards
• The implementation of the first evaluation on
  Security and
• The elaboration of documents based on safety and
  security issues

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• In 1999, ICAO in collaboration with AFCAC started
  the training of African experts within the
  framework of an agreement between France and
  ICAO
• Nowadays there are many African experts on
  aviation Security from AFCAC (African Civil
  Aviation Commission)
• Within the same organization, the instructors and
  auditors have been certified by ICAO
• In addition, recently AVSEC managers have been
  trained

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• With the purpose of reinforcing security at
  regional level, UEMOA has adopted a common
  program for air transport for its state-members.
  The experts of the region have created a common
  regulation procedure known as Regulation 11

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• The main objective of this regulation is to
  assure Security for passengers, crew members,
  personnel on ground, people in general in
  relation to topics concerned with protection
  against illicit acts to the state-members.

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Brief approach on the audit results about safety
and security in Africa

• The audits of aviation Security for the African
  States carried out by ICAO as part of the
  universal ICAO Audit program (USAP) revealed the
  general problems as follows

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• The Inexistence of an adequate legal framework
  (the old national legislation did not take into
  account the aviation Security issues)

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• Inexistence of aviation Security programs
  (National, Airports, Quality Management,
  Training)
• Security equipments, if they exist, are not used
  properly, not well maintained and not correctly
  calibrated

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• Security Charges which are not allocated to
  aviation Security as a priority
• High Turnover of Security personnel

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• Security Issues as Secondary concerns for the
  personnel
• Terminal infrastructure are not well adapted

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• Conflict of responsibility assignments and
  related zones
• Rough implementation of standardized exploitation
  procedures and measures where they are
  implemented

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• 3. Measures to face the aviation Security
  requirements Case study, Cotonou International
  Airport

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Introduction to the Cotonou Airport

• It is a small airport in a small country
• It is located on he Western African Coast between
  other two close airports Lagos (Nigeria) and
  Lome (Togo)
• It is managed by ASECNA through a specific
  agreement held with the Benin Government

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• The infrastructure are being renovated and
  expanded to face the increase in traffic.
• It is a natural hub towards Central Africa.
• 18 airlines companies serve this airport
• It is facing an increasing traffic flow

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• Security Measures in place at Cotonou
  International Airport
• Legal framework for the different Security
  measures has been in place
• The access control and the supervision/screening
  have been moved from the police sector to the
  private sector
• A regular consultation scheme has been in place
  to control the airport management

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• Security Measures in Place at Cotonou
  International Airport
• Planning and execution of training for the
  personnel and the raise in consciousness
• Separation of the traffic of passengers
  (transportation of passengers by bus)
• The number of access control points has been
  reduced
• Implementation of safety licenses totally related
  to safety and security

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Impacts of the measures on the revenues

• Along with the favorable political environment of
  the country, the serious implementation on the
  Security measures has
• Attracted more airlines companies
• Increased the frequency of flights
• Increased the frequency of commercial activities
  thus, an increased in the sales

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Impact of the measures on the revenues

• Record of the demands for the creation of new
  activities
• reducing the airport charges by the perception of
  a Security charge ensures an increase of the
  revenues

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Impact of the measures on the revenues

• Generally, there are two types of charges
• Aeronautics attributed exclusively to traffic
• Non-aeronautics (charges collected on sales
  revenues). In 2007, they represented 20 of the
  total revenue of the Cotonou Airport.

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Impacts of the Measures on the Revenue
Illustration for the Sales Evolution
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Impact of the measures on the revenues

• Although this outcome is modest, it is very
  significant. For the same period, they followed
  the same evolution of the traffic. Or the
  evolution is, among others, related to the
  efficiency of the Security measures for the last
  three years.

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Recommendations

• Establish a Security Charge related exclusively
  to aviation Security.
• It is necessary that the airport management
  assign a well trained person responsible for
  Security. This implies the coordination for
  implementing safety and security measures to
  facilitate the circulation flow within terminals.

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Recommendations

• The airport management has to implement a
  follow-up mechanism and analysis procedure of the
  extra revenue coming from aeronautics, that is,
  Security measures to apply on the airport
  platform.

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• Thank you very much