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Tugs and Tractors High-Tech Systems Add to Pushback Capability EXPLORING GSE, AIRFIELD EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE | WWW.AIRSIDEINT.COM AUTUMN 2019 #AIRSIDEINT TUGS AND TRACTORS HIGH-TECH SYSTEMS ADD TO PUSHBACK CAPABILITY A NEW APPROACH TO DE-ICING MOVING TOWARDS GREENER GSE PAGE GSE THE LEADER IN BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY PAGE GSE has been listening to their customer to determine, design, and introduce WHAT THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY WANTS AND NEEDS • Aircraft Ground Power Cable Assemblies • Pre-Conditioned Air Hoses, Connectors, Reels & Trolleys • 400 Hz Test Equipment • Passenger Boarding Bridge Baggage Chutes • Gate Park Systems As our customers always say: “IT DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!” www.pageindustries.com Please visit PAGE GSE at: Published by: EVA International Media ltd Boswell Cottage, 19 South End, A note from the editor Croydon, London, CR0 1BE, UK Welcome to the Autumn 2019 issue of Airside hear the latest news from CIMC Airmarrel, International, in which we offer a bumper while new technologies are the focus of Tel: +44 (0) 20 8253 4000 issue looking forward to the world’s biggest considerations of Vanderlande’s innovative Fax: +44 (0) 20 8603 7369 airport-related exhibition. 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We talk to the fourth tugs and tractors; in these areas, ground service provider Link Aero’s CEO Amr Address changes and too, the need to minimise harmful emissions is Samir, while Pegasus’ vice president of ground subscriptions: [email protected] a key driver of change. operations tells Airside about how the Turkish low-cost carrier has ramped up its on-time ISSN 1754-1166 And the last of our major features of this issue performance and customer satisfaction assesses the changing world of on-airport through the introduction of new technologies EVA INTERNATIONAL MEDIA LTD aircraft de-icing. and new processes. PUBLISHERS & EVENTS SPECIALISTS The ramp and ongoing modernisation of US ground services provider PrimeFlight apron areas is an ongoing focus of Airside Aviation Services is expanding, and we take a International and this issue is no different. look at the latest moves it is making. The opinions expressed in Here, investment in new infrastructure this publication are those and equipment across a large number of Finally, two of our regular Buyer’s of the individual authors North American gateways has been our Assessments complete the issue. One takes or advertisers and do not focus, encompassing new developments at a look at the success of Aviramp’s innovative necessarily reflect those of airports including Miami, Tampa, Oakland, mobile walk-through boarding bridges at EVA or its members. Rickenbacker and Vancouver. Europe is also Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on the not forgotten, with a glimpse into a busy US West Coast, and the other considers the The mention of specific future for Finland’s Helsinki Airport. value of ASI Solutions’ Rhinophalt runway companies or products in articles or advertisements resurfacing option for Alderney Airport in the contained herein does not The world according to the GSE provider is Channel Islands. imply that they are endorsed not forgotten, as we meet suppliers of airside or recommended by EVA. equipment including Transtec Overseas. We We hope you enjoy the issue. Mike Bryant | Editor | [email protected] Printed by: The Manson Group Limited St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 6PZ, UK Distributed By: James Sheridan Ian Talbot Charlotte Willis Chairman Sales Manager Office Manager Air Business [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] The Merlin Centre, Acrewood Way, St Albans, AL4 0JY, United Kingdom Parveen Raja Gemma Keen Jordan Newton Publisher Events Coordinator Graphic Designer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Shobhana Patel Nenad Panic Head of Finance Graphic Designer [email protected] [email protected] Contents Autumn 2019 66 Bringing state-of-the-art tech to ground handling 06 A different approach to aircraft de-icing 56 Giving aviation customers what they want 06 Aircraft de-icing: to 30 inter airport Europe 2019 52 Buyer’s Assessment (Alder- centralise or not to preview ney Airport/ASI Solutions) centralise 12 Moving with the times 34 Powering the future 54 Buyer’s Assessment (SEA/ Aviramp) 16 Bringing high-tech to 38 A look back at GSE & 56 Connecting with customers pushback RAMP-OPS AFRICA 22 Encouraging the transi- 48 ASO Safety Solutions 59 Transtec Overseas ramps up tion to green GSE broadens its reach Continues on page 5 FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS FOR GSE Engine fires in GSE machines can involve extreme risks Engine fires at airports involve extreme risks to human life, property and machinery. Fogmaker's fire suppression system, with high-pressure water mist, will give you the best possible fire protection performance. The system is fully automatic, position independent, requires no power supply and there is a minimal clean up after system has been deployed. Fogmaker has a global network for service/installations and we have currently made 173,000 installations worldwide. Fogmaker.com OXYGEN HEAT FUEL Contents Autumn 2019 70 PrimeFlight acquires Majestic Terminal Services 92 Innovation in baggage 97 handling The changing face of GPUs and PCAs 62 AVIACO GSE: going places 78 Port of Oakland 90 Testing continues on demonstrates new ARFF unmanned baggage dolly capacity 66 Pegasus soars higher 80 Rickenbacker to invest 92 DFW tests autonomous federal funds baggage mover airside 70 PrimeFlight Aviation 83 Air Canada builds GSE 97 Offering alternatives Services acquisition and cargo facility at expands its reach Edmonton 72 MIA to spend on new 86 Helsinki Airport expands 104 Vancouver celebrates con- infrastructure and its long-haul capacity struction milestone facilities 75 Tampa looks to the future FEATURE | AIRCRAFT DE-ICING Aircraft de-icing: to centralise or not to centralise Many airports have taken to using remote, centralised de-icing facilities to de- and anti-ice aircraft about to take-off, rather than undertaking the procedure at aircraft gates. There seem to be a number of advantages to doing so Canada’s Toronto Pearson International The CDF occupies approximately 65 acres Airport – Canada’s largest airport in of land. It incorporates underground terms of total passenger traffic and North collection systems and is specifically America’s second-largest in terms of surfaced to reduce the environmental international traffic – is one gateway that impact of the chemicals used in the de- has gone down the road of centralised icing process (primarily the glycol-based aircraft de-icing, and seems to have chemicals). reaped the benefits. The CDF is an ‘engines-on’ facility For such a big and busy gateway it is vital consisting of six pads which are each membrane to ensure glycol won’t that its operator, the Greater Toronto sub-divided into a de-icing area and a penetrate soils below the CDF surfaces. Airports Authority (GTAA), ensures that staging area. Each pad can accommodate flights through the gateway are kept two widebody planes (for a total of 12) “The CDF pads are graded on a slight moving no matter how bad the weather or four narrowbody aircraft (for a total slope from north to south and spent fluids becomes – and Canada’s winter, even in of 24 airplanes), with a simultaneous are collected in catch basins that flow into the far south-east of the country, can be de-icing capability of six widebody or 12 larger diversion vaults. Fluids are tested hard. narrowbody aircraft. in the diversion vaults and then directed to the appropriate collection tanks based The de-icing season in Toronto typically According to Ken Eastman, director of on the glycol concentration of the fluids. begins in October and finishes in either deicing operations at the GTAA, having High-concentration spent fluid is then April or early May. The number of aircraft the CDF offers a whole range of benefits. processed at the on-site glycol processing that require treatment is highly dependent “Eliminating aircraft de-icing from the facility, where the fluid is recycled to 50% on the weather, of course, but de-icing terminal buildings allows Toronto Pearson concentrated glycol and used in other season aircraft spray totals have ranged to optimise our gating ability, mitigate after-market products.” from approximately 13,000 to over 19,000 our environmental impact and maximise during the 2018/19 winter.
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