This presentation summarizes José Daniel Sánchez's 2013 summer internship projects at Copa Airlines. The main projects included: 1) Redesigning departure, arrival, and approach procedures for Tocumen Airport to minimize delays and fuel use; 2) Conducting optimization studies on using new RNP procedures for 25-100% of flights and the impact of a new south pier; and 3) Performing capacity studies showing a need for a new third runway by 2024 to accommodate Copa and other carriers' growth. The presentation provided details on the new procedure designs and optimization study methodologies and time periods analyzed. Contact information was provided for references regarding José's work.

1. Summer Internship
2013
José Daniel
Sánchez M.

2. Context
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This PowerPoint presentation was prepared by me at the end of the internship
program, and presented on August 1st, 2013.
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This presentation was originally in Spanish, I have translated it to English for your
convenience.
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This presentation compiles an overview of the projects I worked on.
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If you need any further references as to my work in Copa Airlines, please contact:
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María Emilia Hernández (Intern Program HR) – mchernandez@copaair.com
Capt. Bolívar Domínguez (SOCC Manager) – bdominguez@copaair.com

3. Projects

4. Main: New Procedures
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For Tocumen Airport, departure (SID), arrival (STAR), and approach (RNP)
procedures were redesigned.
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These new procedures were designed with the intent to minimize the
arrival/departure conflict (horizontal & vertical separation) which would, in
term, reduce unnecessary delays and fuel burn due to holding patterns.
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The procedures were also validated against FAA and ICAO standards for
separation between aircraft, and ground obstacle clearance.
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The approaches were built for Required Navigation Performance (RNP) 0.1
systems, which has an error margin of 1/10th of a nautical mile (608ft). As
these approaches are GPS-based, they can reduce or even eliminate the
need for ILS systems, through a similar or better precision. Also, both
runways could be RNP-enabled (instead of a single runway end being ILSenabled), and a reduction in installation & maintenance costs.

5. Final SID/STAR procedure design.

6. Final RNP approach design (Rwys 3R/L), ILS (3R)

7. Project: Optimization Studies
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Tocumen Airport’s operations were optimized for the following scenarios
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RNP procedure usage for landings by 25%, 50% and 100% of the Copa Airlines and Copa
Colombia fleet.
South Pier design and its effect on ground operations and delays.
Both studies were conducted for different time periods on a standard day of
operations, to analyze the impact on all of Copa’s operations.
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Copa Airlines’ six operational banks, each two or three hours long.
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Copa Airlines’ full schedule of operations (6:00 am through 10:00 pm local time (GMT-05:00))
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Peak hours (4:00 pm through 10:00 pm local time)
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Full 24-hour Schedule
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These studies were conducted with simulated foreign airline traffic (i.e.
United, Delta, American, etc. with their actual routes)

8. Project: New Runway 03R/21L
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Capacity studies were performed to assess when would a third runway be
required. It would be needed no later than 2024, using Copa’s local growth
and a 3% growth rate for other carriers.
The runway would be located east of the current 03R/21L with 1500’ of
separation
Original design. It has been amended throughout
the project. North is to the right.

9. Thank you