2025 Agenda

Munich Airport is the second busiest airport in Germany and a major hub in Europe. Serving over 48 million passengers annually and handling more than 400,000 aircraft movements, Munich Airport is renowned for its high standards of service and efficiency. However, the airport’s control tower requires renovation in the coming years, presenting a unique challenge for maintaining uninterrupted air traffic management.
To address this challenge, a project was initiated to install a validation system for a virtual tower at Munich Airport. This system, set up at the DFS branch at Munich Airport, aims to determine the potential of virtual tower solutions for hub airports and prepare them for deployment. The virtual tower validation system will support complex operations and independent parallel runway operations.
The primary goal of the project is to assess the extent to which a virtual tower can substitute the conventional tower and determine the capacity that can be achieved using the virtual tower.
Several validation rounds are in progress in which the controller working position, human machine interface, procedures and technology are fine-tuned respectively validated and during which it is determined which percentage of the normal capacity the virtual tower can handle.
The presentation shares the latest insights from the validation rounds.