New Lisbon Airport Forum

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AIRPORT RELOCATION VERSUS DUAL SOLUTION
Gerry OShaughnessy Manager, Airport ATC
Charges
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• SITUATION
• Lisbon Portella is capacity and development
  constrained
• Constraints related to stands and terminal
  capacity
• New Ota Airport available earliest 2015
• There are proposals for either
• Portella to remain open along with Ota.
• Continued use of Portella plus military airfield
  near Lisbon.

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• ECONOMIC ASPECTS
• Operating from two or more airports is
  undesirable for airlines.
• Particularly so for hub or based carriers due
• - Inability to optimize economies
  of scale
• - Increased costs from
  inflexibility and duplication
• - Customer confusion

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• ECONOMIC ASPECTS (cont.)
• Airports are essential for economic and social
  development.
• Dual airport operation can be undesirable for
  Government due
• - Duplication and under-utilisation of
  assets including surface access
  facilities.
• - Higher tariffs contrary to economic
  and social development

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• ECONOMIC ASPECTS (cont.)
• We recommend Portella used for as long as
  practicable and capable of handling forecast
  traffic.
• Dual airports can be justified for large
  catchment area with capacity constraint LHR 65
  mppa and LGW 32 mppa .
• Can this be justified for Lisbon with 10.7 mppa?

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• CONSIDERATIONS PROBLEMS WITH DUAL AIRPORTS
• When new airport serves same geographical area
  but located long distance from town.
•  What should be done with the old facility?

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• CONSIDERATIONS PROBLEMS WITH DUAL AIRPORTS
  (cont.)
• Some solutions and results
• Traffic split between 2 airports e.g. Domestic at
  Tokyo Haneda and International at Narita -
  difficulties for transfer and feeder traffic.
• International and charter traffic moved to
  Montreal Mirabel with Dorval retaining domestic
  and regional traffic Mirabel is now a white
  elephant.
• Milan Government directives to split
  international traffic resulted in legal action
  via EC.

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• CONSIDERATIONS PROBLEMS WITH DUAL AIRPORTS
  (cont.)
• Lessons
• Airlines intensely competitive and driven by
  market needs.
• Any directives on market split must be
  non-discriminatory.
• Low-cost facilities must be available to all
  airlines.
• Rules on domestic/international split must apply
  equally to all.

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• OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
• ATC complexities
• Negative impact on ATC and runway capacity
• Constraints particularly on future growth

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• ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS
• Airports are focus of environmental attention.
• Dual airports double the environmental impact
• Noise emissions and surface access impact.
• Increased land-use restrictions necessary

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• Conclusion
• Airports essential catalyst for economic and
  social growth
• Airport operations should benefit all
  stakeholders
• Government and airport authority must consider
• Earliest new airport capacity will be 2015
• We should not wait ten years for solution
• Interim solution must be speeded-up
• Necessity to optimize Portella in meantime.