ACI World Facilitation & Services Standing Committee

The ACI World Facilitation and Services Standing Committee (WFSSC) covers the following items: facilitation of passengers and their baggage, freight and mail; quality of service at airports; automated services integration for passengers and baggage; surface access to airports and inter-modal issues; dangerous goods, measures to combat drug trafficking; slot allocation and schedule coordination; and the inter-relationship between facilitation and security. The committee focuses on ICAO Annex 9 (Facilitation).

Current issues include:  the application of biometrics to border control and airline processes;  impact of Advance Passenger Information (API) and Passenger Name Record (PNR) requests on facilitation;  airport preparedness for outbreaks of communicable diseases;  infrastructure requirements at airports;  customer satisfaction and service quality benchmarking (ASQ);  and airports & persons with disabilities.

Chair: Jürgen Wächtler (Hamburg)

Vice-Chair: Byford E. Treanor, III (Dallas/Fort Worth)

Past Chair:
Azmi Murad (Malaysia Airports)
Hans Klohs (MUC)

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
Africa:
Barnabé Metohoue (Benin)
(vacant)
Asia Pacific:
Sami Ashi (Saudi Arabia)
Foo Sek Min (Singapore Changi)
Europe:
Eric van den Dobbelsteen (Schiphol)
Giorgio Medici (Milano)
Latin America-Carribean:
Rafael Alberto Smith (Punta Cana)
(vacant)
North America:
Bradley Rubinstein (Port Authority New York & New Jersey)
Saba Abashawl (Houston)


MEMBERS AT LARGE (10 Places)WORLD BUSINESS PARTNERS (5 Places)
Robinson Misitala (NAC, Zambia)Solomon Wong (Intervistas)
Antoine Rostworowski (Montreal)Donald Zoufal (SD-I)
Dirk Klann (Fraport)George Lazenkas (Airbiz)
Hao Ling (Beijing)Greg Moix (Leo A. Daly)
Pirjo Lähteelä (Finavia)(1 vacancy)
Francisco Pita (ANA, Portugal)
Ibrahim Al Amiri (Dubai)
Walter Gaber (Fraport)
(2 vacancies)


Board Liaison:
Dennis CHANT (Gold Coast)

Committee Secretary: Arturo Garcia-Alonso (ACI World)

Regional Office Observers:

Diane Peterson (ACI North America)
Federico Bonaudi (ACI Europe)
Shun-Leung Wong (ACI Asia-Pacific)
Shun-Leung Wong (ACI Asia-Pacific)
Ali Tounsi (ACI Africa)
Javier Martinez (ACI Latin America & Caribbean)