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SPRING 2017 | AIRSIDEINT.COM 1 FEATURE | AIRPORT RUNWAY MAINTENANCE

Time is the enemy

With more and more aircraft using them, it is more important than ever that airports keep their runways in good condition. But at the same time, the ever-growing number of fl ights means that fi nding a window in which to do this vital work is increasingly diffi cult. Chris Lewis reports

unways surely represent the most important and in electronic rather than paper format. Th e better things are critical feature of any airport; whereas taxiways and documented, the easier the maintenance task, says Chalk. other aspects of infrastructure are usually to some “Otherwise, you need to start drilling holes to fi nd exactly R extent duplicated, “if you don’t have a runway, you what you’ve got.” don’t have an airport,” points out Chris Chalk at Th e length of time a runway can last before needing Mott MacDonald. signifi cant work undertaken on it depends on many factors, Chalk, the global practice leader for aviation at the global including the number and weight of aircraft using it, the engineering, management and development consultancy fi rm prevailing climatic conditions and the materials it is built from, based in Croydon in the UK, explains that shutting even one but as a very rough rule of thumb a bitumen runway might last runway at multiple-runway airports can be tricky at very busy 20 years, while the top layer will need replacing every 10 years. locations, so it’s oft en only something that can be done at night, Another factor that can aff ect the interval between usually within quite tight time windows. maintenance operations relates to the ground conditions As with most maintenance, doing work in good time oft en underneath the runway. Generally speaking, the stronger the pays greater dividends than letting things deteriorate to the underlying terrain (granite as opposed to light soil or crushed point that a major rebuild from the foundations up is required. coral, for example) the longer lasting the runway, although Th e problem, in most parts of the world, is persuading weak ground conditions can to some extent be compensated by airport paymasters that this is an eff ective use of public or a thicker bitumen layer on top. shareholders’ funds. Runway maintenance just isn’t exciting An important part of the equation, as noted above, is the compared with building new terminals or so many of the other number and type of aircraft that use a runway. Just as heavy demands on the public purse. lorries tend to cause more damage to roads than private cars, Some airports are better at planning maintenance than so larger, heavier widebody aircraft cause proportionately more others. Th e same applies to documenting their assets, although wear than narrowbody types. Another, related factor relates to an increasing proportion of such information is now available the number of wheels on those aircraft . Older narrowbodies

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On the apron at Dubai International Airport

with fewer wheels like the B727 or Tristar used to cause a operation. French-owned Colas, for instance, works in a relatively large amount of damage, whereas some of the newer number of diff erent European countries. widebodies such as the B787 are relatively gentle by comparison. Expertise will probably have to be imported in less developed The materials used for runway maintenance, and indeed countries, possibly with a foreign fi rm acting as lead contractor. the actual techniques involved, haven’t changed much over While there are similarities to road repair and maintenance, the years, Chalk informs. Polymers are often added to the it’s unlikely that the local contractors will have the skills – or asphalt mix to allow it to be laid during a wider range of the necessary airside and security clearance – to carry out climatic conditions. runway operations themselves. Mott MacDonald itself works Th e laying equipment is essentially similar to that used for all over the world. roads, although runway operations have to take place under Runway maintenance periods are also a good chance to far greater time constraints – and clearly, quality control has to renew or replace fi xtures such as apron lighting infrastructure. be even higher. GPS and IT systems have replaced string lines, Light fi ttings will oft en have to be removed during runway improving accuracy as well as speeding operations. But the maintenance operations anyway, and many airports might milling or material and the asphalting process have remained take the opportunity to replace existing lights with superior largely unchanged. (perhaps LED) ones. Runway markings will also be removed; Modern, powerful systems used to light the work site these get replaced more oft en than the surface itself. have eased the contractors’ task, given that levels of air traffi c Th e opportunity may also be taken to groove the runway intensity mean that most maintenance at major airports will surface to improve skid performance. take place in darkness. In the more developed parts of the It is rare for major work to take place on taxiways at the world, there are specialist contractors who will carry out same time as runways. Th ere is less pressure on taxiways and runway maintenance operations. US contractors, for example, it is usually reasonable to take some out of use during the tend to do business primarily in their home country, whereas daytime rather than at night. in Europe, for example, there is an element of cross-border The weather – principally rain and low temperatures –

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is the biggest hindrance to smooth-running maintenance work. Long-term forecasts are of very little use in trying to decide whether it will rain or be unusually cold on a particular day several months hence, though obviously maintenance planners do avoid periods such as monsoon seasons or times when winter freezes can be expected. In some respects, the weather can cause most problems in temperate climates (such as Britain’s), when rain can happen at any time, including midsummer. A runway maintenance Usually, planners will build a ‘weather margin’ into their schedules, which is usually – but not always – suffi cient to allow programme is crucial “so that the operation to take place within the planned time-scale. we can make replacements or DIY – OR CONTRACT OUT? maintenance at the right time” Th e extent to which airport authorities perform their own Dan Meincke, director of traffi c and maintenance varies hugely around the world. Dan Meincke, airside operations at Copenhagen Kastrup Airport director of traffi c and airside operations at Copenhagen Kastrup Airport, says that the airport authority, Københavns Luft havne, carries out daily technical maintenance itself but that asphalt coating is subcontracted via a framework agreement to a contractor. As with all signifi cant pieces of work at the airport, the task is subject to EU tenders. Like any major airport, there is a lot of pressure to keep

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Copenhagen’s runways open, says Meincke, so “maintenance is assessed from time to time. We are carrying out night work on the runways, where possible in terms of quality and cost. We have also chosen to close one day and night at times. Th e outlook for wind direction and wind speed aff ects our decisions.” A maintenance programme is also crucial “so that we can make replacements or maintenance at the right time”, both to ensure continuity in operation, and to keep a handle on costs. But, above all, safety and maintaining the operation are the most important factors, Meincke declares. Multiple-runway airports can have more fl exibility in how and when they carry out maintenance operations. Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, for example, has three runways and, says its head of airside and landside operations, Anders Östlings, “the strategy is to close one of the three runways every third year for heavy maintenance”. So, RWY08/26 will be closed during 2017 and the next time it will be closed will be 2020. RWY01L/19R will be closed in 2018 and in 2021, RWY01R/19L will be closed 2019, 2022 and so on. Each time, the runway is closed for between four and seven weeks for resurfacing, instrument landing system (ILS) upgrades, runway lights upgrades and other work. Diff erent teams are responsible for the various aspects of the work, but a

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Hong Kong International Airport from the air stakeholder in airport operations, Munich Airport always puts safety first, when it comes to airport operations as well as maintenance”, says Hoffmann. “Therefore, economics is a secondary – yet not-to-be-neglected – criterion.” For the world’s busiest international hubs, planning and scheduling major work is as big a task as the physical work itself. Chris Garton, executive vice-president for operations at Dubai Airports, notes that Dubai International doesn’t have the luxury of time. “Dubai International is a bit different from other airports. Many close at night, but we are open 24 hours and in fact our busiest time is between midnight and 3am.” Moreover, Dubai International handles large, heavy aircraft including A380s and B777s that will be fully loaded and also fully fuelled for the long sectors operated out of Dubai, so its runways take quite a pounding. single project manager is responsible for the overall plan. When Dubai Airports carried out an 80-day comprehensive Östlings adds that Arlanda has not so far been forced to do upgrade project at Dubai International in May 2014 – runway maintenance at night, “but as the traffic has increased resurfacing the entire 4,000-metre long northern runway – for a number of years we are looking into the possibility to do some services were diverted to the emirate’s new Dubai World that in the future in order to reduce the number of weeks of Central (DWC) Al-Maktoum Airport, while flights at Dubai closure.” (Arlanda has no night curfew and is open 24/7). International were thinned out; in some cases, two flights The airport authority uses contractors for runway normally operated by smaller aircraft were combined into a maintenance such as asphalt sealing and resurfacing, with single A380-operated service. Planning for the event had to only minor jobs performed by its own staff. The availability start two years in advance, Garton explains, which made it of labour can be a barrier to maintenance operations around possible for airlines to reduce flights well in advance rather the clock – as can cost, although clearly “the cost can never than cancel them and disappoint pre-booked passengers. affect the quality of work because safety is always a priority”, Long-term closure of what is now the world’s busiest Östlings promises. international passenger air hub just isn’t an option. Quite apart At Germany’s Munich Airport, runway inspections and from the estimated 28% of Dubai’s GDP that is dependent short-term maintenance are carried out by the airport operator, on aviation, it would have far-reaching consequences for the but larger-scale scheduled maintenance is undertaken by global economy too. reliable long-term partners and contractors – for example, Other airports in colder climates have to deal with the rubber removal, which can be scheduled and takes place about problem of snow removal; but for Dubai the issue is rubber three times a year. removal from the deposits left by close on 1,200 movements a Economy, functionality, quality and durability all come into day, a problem exacerbated by the hot temperatures. As night the equation when deciding what maintenance equipment to work isn’t an option, the task has to be undertaken during the buy, explains the Bavarian gateway’s vice-president of airport heat of the day and Dubai Airports has developed specialised operations, Alexander Hoffmann. Moreover, compliance vehicle-mounted removal equipment – essentially a combined with legal, industry and internal standards, and laws on water scrubber and vacuum – to avoid sending crews out in 52 occupational safety and health must also be taken into account. degree temperatures. The system has been enlarged to the point Electronics and IT are also now key drivers in where it can sweep a 2-metre width of runway. increasing maintenance process efficiency, reducing costs Dubai Airports uses a mix of in-house engineering and improving quality while meeting demanding safety expertise and sub-contractors – in the latter case, often the standards, Hoffmann adds. original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that supplied Munich says it operates one of the world’s most efficient the equipment in the first place – to carry out its regular dual-runway systems, serving around 1,100 aircraft movements maintenance. Sourcing labour is not an issue in this part of every day, although national regulations stipulate that it is the world, although the airport tries to do as much vehicle- subject to night curfews from midnight to 5:00am, with one based work as possible rather than send crews out in the runway available for emergency and other special-permission midday sun. traffic. Schedulable maintenance usually takes place on the The rather colder weather conditions on the east coast second, inactive runway during night curfews. of Canada also influence maintenance operations at Halifax As at other airports in developed Western countries, Stanfield International Airport, explains its manager of air-side availability and cost of labour is an issue, “but as with any other services, Chris Altass. Asphalt repairs generally only take place

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Pittsburgh: in the warmer months between mid-May means that closing one runway may restrict and 1 December; conditions are too cold the available length for the one that remains maintaining in the depths of winter (Halifax recorded a operational. Whenever possible, the airport total snowfall of 165cm last winter). tries to ‘batch’ maintenance activities, 24-hours-a-day Halifax Airport Authority’s own programming the work for pairs of runways infrastructure department carries out line at a time. Th at way, it can be carried out on operations painting and smaller asphalt repairs; larger whichever runway has the less favourable work is subcontracted through a “robust” conditions for aircraft operations at that project management procedure. time, while the other remains active. Pittsburgh International Airport Th ere are four runways at Halifax, Line painting is a big part of Halifax’s maintains all its runways and taxiways, along with the outer which makes for a high degree of fl exibility, maintenance operation, as the chemicals apron, while airlines contract although the intersecting runway pattern used for de-icing tend to aff ect the paint. with individual vendors to perform services on their leased gate areas, explains Bob Kerlik, vice president, media relations at Allegheny County Airport Any sweeper can claim to be as good as Authority, operator of Pittsburgh International Airport. Pittsburgh International is not limited by curfews and remains open 24 hours a day, seven days On the flight line it’s a bit more difficult a week. “We’re fortunate to have The FOD*BOSS airfield sweeper performs better than any sweeper seen before. From its high four runways, one of which we typically close during the winter collection capabilities to its amazing speed and unrivalled efficiency, it is not just the ultimate FOD when possible,” Kerlik informs. sweeper, it is the ultimate FOD*BOSS. “We provide an estimate of the The result? A virtually maintenance free tarmac sweeper capable of removing dangerous material length of time it will take to clean such as rocks, metallic or non-metallic objects, luggage hardware and even sand, that has a sweep the runway and adjust to meet the width up to 22 ft/7 m and operates at speeds up to 30 mph/50 kph in wet or dry conditions. demands of air traffi c with safety This patented sweeping system comes with an unconditional lifetime money back guarantee being fi rst priority.” on performance and durability. “Single-runway airports must Put the FOD*BOSS to the test, if at any time it is proven not to be the world’s best FOD sweeper, co-ordinate their activities more return for refund. See for yourself what separates the truly exceptional from the merely average. closely with the control tower and be prepared to evacuate the runways on shorter notice for landings and take-offs,” he continues. “They tend to be easier to maintain since there is only a single focus, while multiple runways can be more diffi cult (to maintain and operate), especially during prolonged events. “When purchasing equipment, airports discuss reputation, capability and reliability with each other in similar weather environments and base the final decision on what their budget will allow,” Kerlik remarks. “Multi-function equipment which allows one piece of equipment to replace two (plough and broom, for example) is great, reducing labour and equipment along with the associated fuel and maintenance costs. The use Photo courtesy of NASA of global positioning tracking makes assigning duties safer and more efficient.” Q FOD GONE “Multiple runways For more information or contact details of your local worldwide distributor please visit or email: can be more diffi cult www.fodboss.com or [email protected] to maintain” The FOD*BOSS system is subject to patents and or patent applications.

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On the other hand, rubber removal is less of an issue than at airports in hotter climates. Halifax also has sophisticated systems both to detect current temperature and weather conditions and to predict incoming weather. Th ese are very useful for avoiding unnecessary application of de-icing chemicals and they also play a role in deciding whether and when operations can be carried out. Two runways don’t necessarily give a great deal of spare capacity at the world’s biggest hubs. For instance, Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) – the world’s busiest international air cargo gateway and one of the busiest passenger airports – is now handling over 412,000 movements a year, or an average of over 1,100 fl ights per day. In fact, informs an airport spokesperson, the pressure to complete runway maintenance in a shorter and shorter time due to that increasing air traffi c demand is one of the reasons why there is a pressing need for HKIA to expand to a three- runway system. Th e third runway project is scheduled to be completed in 2024 and is expected to allow the airport to handle 607,000 fl ight movements a year by 2030. Th e Airport Authority of Hong Kong’s own team works with contractors to maintain HKIA’s runways, including routine maintenance such as rubber removal and the painting

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of runway markings. It also closely monitors the condition of the runway pavement, including evaluating and analysing its structure, roughness and ride quality. As well as this, there is preventive maintenance, such as runway asphalt resurfacing works to improve or keep the Munich says it operates one of the world’s runway condition at a high standard. Th e airport also carries most effi cient dual-runway systems out corrective maintenance to rectify defects that negatively impact runway performance, such as pavement crack sealing and pothole repair. Under the current two-runway system, HKIA can close one of the runways for maintenance every night from 1:30am until before 8am, while the other remains open to allow 24- hour operation of the airport. But with increasing traffi c, it is exploring diff erent ways, including enhanced equipment, to boost effi ciency of the work to release more time slots for aircraft movement. Measures introduced since 2014 include automated distress survey equipment to increase the reliability of the results and quality of the data in the pavement condition survey. Recently, the airport operator also conducted a trial run to test the feasibility of using high-speed imaging technology for airfi eld ground lighting to enhance speed and precision of lighting checks to spot faulty lights more quickly. Q

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Reaching the heights

Whether it might be to help those passengers who can’t negotiate steps and so require some assistance to board or leave aircraft , or for loading cargo, or for maintaining aircraft , handlers and other airline service providers have to work at height. We assess the latest developments in the GSE world of catering trucks, ambulift s, loaders and lift s

TLD stays cutting edge

LD is active right around the globe, off ering a wide this fi eld, with its reGen loader using (a) regenerative system range of GSE through a global sales and service network. to save energy and better manage battery capacity and life,” Its products are in use at all of the major airports around Maguin observes. T the world, its portfolio covering aircraft tractors, air “On top of enabling a green and quiet environment, starters, ground power units and air-conditioning units, electric loaders are (also) now priced competitively with diesel belt loaders, passenger steps, baggage tractors, transporters, loaders and they off er a signifi cantly lower TCO (total cost lavatory and water service units, catering trucks, trailers and of ownership), to the point that the diff erence in operational dollies, as well as maintenance platforms and cargo loaders. cost on a 10- to 15-year basis is equivalent to their acquisition On the loader side of its business, there are currently price,” he continues. “We see most of (our) customers two main areas of development on which TLD is focusing worldwide progressively switching to the reGen technology.” its eff orts, explains group CEO Antoine Maguin. Th e fi rst concerns electrifi cation of its loaders. Today’s technology REGEN allows loaders, especially the 3.5-tonne and 7.5-tonne ones, to Mark Garlasco, CEO of TLD USA, explains more about the operate for a sustained period of time such that their batteries benefits of TLD’s reGen technology, which is fitted to the now need to be recharged only overnight. “TLD is a pioneer in manufacturer’s TXL-838 series of 7-tonne lead acid battery-

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powered loaders. ReGen offers a couple of very specific advantages over systems not employing the technology, he “TLD is a pioneer in this fi eld, informs. Th e fi rst relates to the system’s ability to recycle some of with its reGen loader using (a) the mechanical energy that would otherwise be lost when the regenerative system to save loader platform is lowered; that recycled mechanical energy is captured in the reGen system’s super-capacitors and can then energy and better manage battery be used in the next lift . capacity and life” Second, those same super-capacitors allow the reGen’s Antoine Maguin, group CEO, TLD current management system to avoid drawing large spikes of current out of the loader’s batteries, a characteristic that is typical of all electric loaders but that has an adverse eff ect because more and more airports around the world are putting on battery performance: large current spikes not only lessen in place the GSE battery-charging infrastructure required for battery output but also create heat that stresses a battery and such units. reduces its useful life before requiring replacement. Th is patented system is unique to TLD, Garlasco notes. ASD TLD’s reGen is now in its third-generation format, he Th e other big change in loader technology being supported by confi rms, the fi rst iteration dating back nearly 10 years. Th e TLD development concerns safety systems for GSE working system was developed as a result of discussions with customers with the new composite fuselage aircraft (the B787 and A350) who were looking for a particularly high level of autonomy – types, an issue that represents such a concern for the aviation high utilisation rates between periods of charge – and it is now industry today. “With 3D cameras, we are now controlling the in use on TXL-838 loaders right around the world, in both hot approach and docking of loaders to aircraft ,” Maguin says. New and cold environments. Th e pace of delivery is rising, in part continues page 13

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JBT’s Ranger offers big benefi ts

was able to demonstrate a IN COMMAND prototype of the loader which, Sales have already been says Cecil, received a good encouraging, Cecil confirms. deal of positive feedback And, of course, for those who but which also elicited some don’t feel the Ranger is ideal recommendations for design for them they can always fall changes that could then be back on JBT’s longstanding incorporated into the Ranger’s Commander series of loaders development by JBT. – a range of units which takes Another Ranger was on in the C15i, C30i, C40i and the stand at the International C60i series of vehicles (also Airport Ground Support available for cargo handlers Expo in Las Vegas in are JBT’s CLT-8 and CPT-7 October last year, with initial loaders and transporters, production of the model also CLT being Container launched during 2016 in Lifting Transporter and Madrid. As well as in JBT’s CPT being Container Pallet manufacturing facility in the Transporter). Given that JBT Spanish capital, the Ranger and its former incarnations will also be manufactured have sold perhaps 10,000 in the company’s Orlando or so loaders since the evin Cecil, JBT’s of up-time utilisation and and Kunshan, China plants, company’s early days, and Orlando, Florida-based could off er a rapid return on thus speeding up both many of those units are still loader engineering investment (RoI). manufacturing runs and in use, clearly durability K manager, explains Th e JBT response was the deliveries to end-customers hasn’t been a big problem. that the biggest recent Ranger loader, which off ers all wherever they may be (and, Some of these loaders, change in the JBT off ering of these things, Cecil says – in Cecil confi rms, the Ranger such as the Commanders, in this product space has particular, it off ers fast drive is designed with the global may well also benefit from been the development of the speeds for those units serving market very much in mind). the ‘trickle-down’ effect of company’s all-new Ranger stands far apart on bigger Th e Ranger has not yet what was learned during cargo loader, ideal for serving airports as well as excellent fi nished its evolution. Other the Ranger’s development, a wide range of passenger value for all its capability. variants will be developed Cecil believes. They will aircraft . Recalling a complex Th e initial discussions and released on to the market also come to benefit from product development cycle, with potential customers in coming months and years. other improvements being he observes: “A few years ago and amongst JBT in-house For example, JBT’s Aircraft made across JBT’s GSE we saw that there was a big engineering and development Proximity Detection (APD) product lines. One of these change taking place in the teams having taken place, system will be fi tted, while the is the company’s Intelligent GSE market. Many of the big by 2015 JBT was heavily development of a maindeck Operations Performance carriers were transitioning into engineering product loader variant is now being System (iOPS), which across to using third-party planning. In October of that wrapped up and is expected to offers Computerized handlers, and there weren’t year, the GSE manufacturer be on sale later this year. Maintenance Management the loaders available in the Systems (CMMS), tracking, market that they thought were monitoring and equipment ideal for their needs.” For those who don’t feel the Ranger data in one real-time In particular, these technology package. iOPS handlers (and some of is ideal for them they can always will soon be rolled out JBT’s self-handling carrier fall back on JBT’s longstanding on JBT’s Ranger loaders, customers) were looking for before also being fitted to loaders that were fast across Commander series of loaders Commander loaders by about the ground, had high rates the middle of this year. Q

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regulations are coming into force that require these systems will also automatically freeze the unit in situ. Th e operator is on all GSE docking to aircraft fuselages, he points out, adding: not able to override this. “Many of our customers are now buying cargo loaders, but also The industry is not yet quite ready to take the operator belt loaders and stairs, equipped with our ASD (Aircraft Safe completely out of the loop, Garlasco opines. However, Docking) system.” that day may be coming, he believes, and TLD is certainly Garlasco, based in the US in TLD’s Windsor, Connecticut looking at systems that would take full control as and when facility, describes ASD as an “elegant solution” to the necessary. danger of impact damage. The technology leaves the GSE TLD’s Sherbrooke, Canada facility takes the lead on operator in control, he says, but reinforces the controlled manufacturing the company’s loaders. It is located close to environment that is an everyday feature of modern airside the US border and has easy access to transportation routes aprons. Should the operator exceed the mandated speed on and international airports. Th e factory has a long GSE approach to an aircraft, or should he come too close to an manufacturing tradition, starting as Cochran Equipment in aircraft, the ASD system will apply the vehicle’s brake. Plus, 1956, before becoming a Lantis facility and subsequently TLD. any operator who enters an apron area around an aircraft TLD designs and assembles cargo loaders (of 7.5-tonne must switch the system on, an action that will be indicated to 36-tonne capacity), baggage belt loaders and conventional by a beacon attached to the unit (thus making it obvious to tractors at Sherbrooke. TLD Sherbrooke is also where the all if the unit enters the area around an aircraft without its company developed its PFA-50 air-transportable, self-propelled beacon flashing). aircraft cargo loader for military application, and its DBL Finally, should an accident occur, the system will record model, the largest aircraft loader in the world, designed to relevant unit data pertaining to the time of the collision, and handle aircraft fuselage sections or entire wings. Q

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TREPEL keeps its focus

arsten Schimkat has that will come into force in been at the helm 2018 is raising a lot of new of Germany-based requirements and questions C GSE manufacturer from our customers,” he says. TREPEL Airport “New systems must adapt to a Equipment for more than a wide variety of environments year now but, explains sales and operational modes. They manager Philippe de Soyres, are not only a challenge as there had already been a for the manufacturers but transitioning period from they also force the ground previous chief Klaus Pfeiff er handlers to question the way to Schimkat over the previous they operate.” few years, there was no Otherwise, TREPEL has awkward hand-over period. also made some smaller “Our main focus is now on improvements to its loader maintaining our market portfolio as a result of share in the loader business feedback from customers, and increasing market such as new handrails and share in the aircraft tractor new tyres for its Challenger business,” Schimkat confi rms. 430 units. “Furthermore we are planning “Th e demand for our to add more products to our loaders was very high in 2016 portfolio in order to grow the and so far we have not seen company.” a decline in this demand; the There has also been an market remains buoyant,” expansion of the TREPEL de Soyres reports, noting footprint at its site in in particular that TREPEL’s Tauberbischofsheim. “We electric loaders are certainly now have a new building attracting more attention, dedicated to our customers especially in the EU, where and to inspecting and testing particularly strict regulations finished equipment. This covering diesel engines are “The demand for our loaders new facility offers more space leading to more and more for manufacturing tasks in expensive diesel engines that was very high in 2016 and so our factory, enabling us to are also more complex to far we have not seen a decline simultaneously assemble maintain. more equipment,” de Soyres “Th e readiness of airports in this demand; the market points out. to provide the adequate remains buoyant” Meanwhile, TREPEL infrastructure for (charging Philippe de Soyres, sales manager, TREPEL has developed a new the batteries of) electric ‘Aircraft Approach System’ loaders remains pivotal” in for its loaders that meets this regard, he insists, but International Air Transport considers that the industry Association (IATA) safety will continue to see rising requirements. “The new demand for electric loaders IATA Airport Handling due to the complexity and Read more on Manual (AHM) standard higher TCO of loaders with high lifts and loaders: on safe aircraft approach Stage 4 and Stage 5 engines. Q page 32

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Communications systems for GSE tracking

Tracking GSE location and status has a range of benefi ts for diff erent users, and new technologies are making it easier to achieve. Chris Aaron looks at the communications technologies that underpin GSE fl eet tracking

racking ground support equipment is now a Other unexpected benefits may arise from the commonplace function at larger airports, at least for collection of ‘big’ GSE data over time. For example, a motorised GSE units, and the benefits are proving recent study by a Dutch Master’s student (1) looked at T to outweigh the costs of establishing the relevant the movement of baggage carts and dollies on the apron infrastructure. at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The study related to These benefits have been discussed in previous Airside the perceived need for more space in parking bays to articles but, to recap briefly, they include improved improve safety and efficiency. After physically observing operational flexibility from having a real-time picture of movements in the area, the author concluded that more the location of GSE units around the airport; utilisation careful driving and parking, as well as better apron efficiencies resulting from analysis of data on how different design, would in fact have more impact than extra GSE units are used over time; fleet optimisation in terms space. While this study recorded vehicle movements of matching availability to demand, and scheduling vehicle manually, one can see how useful a database of all vehicle maintenance; and safety and good-use monitoring through movements over time could be in improving apron design collection and correlation of vehicle and driver data. and driver behaviour.

16 AIRSIDE INTERNATIONAL | SPRING 2017 On the apron at Schiphol, one of the big airports at GSE TRACKING | FEATURE which GSE tracking is now used

MORE DATA, MORE USERS When one considers all the benefi ts outlined above, it becomes obvious that collecting location information, while fundamental, is only one aspect of a wide range of performance measurement, data collection, display, and analysis functions that are tied up with ‘tracking’ GSE. Furthermore, the primarily one-way fl ow of data from vehicle to operator is likely to change as data is shared more widely between diff erent users (handlers, airport management, security, etc), and as driverless and autonomous vehicles are eventually introduced onto the ramp, necessitating more two-way fl ows of data. In consequence, a large airport of the future is likely to see vastly more data being communicated between many more nodes than at present. As the GSE tracking sector matures, solutions will also be needed for smaller airports that cannot currently justify the cost of installing the necessary infrastructure. Solutions that can be scaled down once the technology has been proven at large airports are therefore likely to be at an advantage. In a similar vein, solutions that can be used equally well on non-motorised as motorised GSE units will be attractive; this means that aspects such as unit cost and power consumption become more important.

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as a driver identification device). Similarly, at the display and analysis level, fleet management information systems The mention of fi xed or mobile are now familiar technology, with customisability being a repeater devices indicates the prime driver among the competition. These two levels of the architecture are therefore fairly well established. possible use of autonomous mobile In contrast, the area that appears to be in flux, and which repeaters that can move around to will be decisive in shaping the overall architecture of tracking solutions, is the communications system between vehicle and ‘heal’ potential gaps in the network manager/user (or to put it another way, between data sensing and data usage).

ARCHITECTURE COMMUNICATION APPROACHES Given the factors outlined above, it may be that a particular Several recently published patents illustrate two approaches to system architecture will emerge that proves most successful. communication of GSE data at an airport. In terms of determining a unit’s location, speed, status, The first, published in 2016 2, was filed by ADS-B driver details and so on, the relevant sensors are well Technologies LLC, and describes a system using an known. This is not to say that new technical solutions will ADS-B OUT transmitter and a second transmitter using not arise (for example, the use of ground-facing cameras a non-ADS-B protocol, both mounted on a GSE unit, to along with markings on the ground may be an alternative transmit data from the unit to a control station. The ADS-B to GPS), but they are unlikely to change the architecture transmitter can be turned on and off depending on the of the system as a whole. An optimal solution at this level location of the unit within the airport – specifically, whether is likely to offer core parameter measurements (such as it is in a safety/security priority area. In this way, the system location), with additional plug-and-play features (such utilises the ADS-B system that is being introduced in several

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countries, and would enable any user with an ADS-B receiver that then makes the data available to users over existing to see the location of GSE equipment in sensitive areas in communications infrastructure. real-time, while using a non-ADS-B protocol to communicate This is essentially a mesh network solution using GSE data when the unit is in a less-sensitive area. The logic seems units as nodes. The patent states that the solution involves to be to reduce clogging up the ADS-B frequency with less “vehicle-mounted integrated end-device radio/GPS/power/ crucial transmissions, while using its broadcast potential antenna units, fixed or mobile router/repeater devices and when a GSE unit is in a sensitive area. fixed network gateways/coordinator units with Internet A similar patent was filed by THALES in 2005 3, in connectivity that may communicate near real-time end that case varying the regularity of ADS-B transmissions device (vehicle) position/track information for display on a depending on the location of the GSE unit – frequent situational awareness display device”. transmissions in more sensitive areas, less frequent updates The mention of fixed or mobile repeater devices indicates in non-sensitive areas. the possible use of autonomous mobile repeaters that can Both these patents describe a communications system that move around to ‘heal’ potential gaps in the network, although is essentially a direct, one-way broadcast from the GSE unit to in the immediate future fixed repeaters are more likely to be a receiving ‘ground station’. installed based on analysis of real traffic-patterns. Another patent published in 2016, filed by Rockwell This solution is similar to that of the Dutch company Collins 4, describes a different communications approach Undagrid, which has developed a tracking system called for GSE. This solution uses the presence of a large number GSETrack. GSETrack is already being used at Schiphol of GSE units in a confined space (the airport) to create a Airport, Frankfurt, Dubai International Airport and Paris network that communicates data across it. Thus transceivers Charles de Gaulle. Their devices use a mix of Bluetooth are mounted on GSE units and low-power, line-of-sight low energy (Bluetooth SmartTM), LoRa, and Undagrid’s radio transmissions pass data from one GSE unit to another. proprietary protocol to transmit data between units and then Networking protocols deliver the data to a fixed ‘node’ to the ‘Cloud’ for access by users, and claim to be able to

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function for several years on just two AA batteries. Coming together The combination of low power consumption and automatic network configuration means the mesh-type solution is suitable for non-motorised GSE and is inherently Swiss airport IT specialist airport partners to work scalable. ADS-B, on the other hand, is likely to become a SITA regularly publishes more closely together and reports on developments share data. According to worldwide standard that can be extended from the aircraft to in the aviation sector. In its Howell, Gatwick Airport’s GSE units if the right price points for units can be delivered. latest report, ‘The future is use of data integrator predictable’, Chris Howell, Splunk Cloud has given it the head of business a single, real-time view of WHICH DIRECTION? systems at Gatwick performance, and it has What will determine the eventual proliferation of one solution Airport, observed: “Most improved collaboration with equipment on the airfi eld ground handlers, airlines or another? Price, reliability and scalability ought to be major – tugs, trucks, towing and air traffic control. factors, but other infl uences will come into play. Th e end devices – and some inside A-CDM is an important user is more interested in the benefi ts that a system provides the terminal – buggies for initiative, and as example – is not owned by than the technology used. Th erefore a provider with a great EUROCONTROL notes: “The Gatwick and doesn’t have ground handler will benefit fl eet management system may infl uence the communications sensors.” from having more accurate infrastructure adopted, or a GSE unit manufacturer could Howell points out that in-block times for arrivals, responsibility for installing as well as from knowing choose whether or not to make certain data more or less sensors on GSE units lies the exact time departing openly available. Th e greater revenues are to be made at the with the ground handlers, aircraft have been given major airports, and smaller airports will want to make as much but insists that the airport start-up clearance. This is playing its part by makes for more accurate use of any mandated systems like ADS-B that they can. creating a data-sharing planning and a more In the end, it might well depend on whether a mesh-like infrastructure that can be efficient use of resources.” communications provider can form an appropriate alliance used by all its partners: However, its cost- “We have established effective implementation with a great fleet information management system supplier. Q a standard interface to depends on having a share data – now ground reliable, inexpensive handlers can track onboard communications 1) Oorsprong, P; The Design of a Future Apron for the New A-Pier, equipment as and when infrastructure through Master’s Thesis, 2016 it becomes equipped with which data can be passed. 2) Patent: Techniques for reporting on or tracking ground vehicles sensors,” he noted. The sooner a standard (US9311821 B2) This effort is part of solution is determined, 3) Patent: Onboard device on a vehicle for traffic surveillance an Airport Collaborative the better it will be for all systems in an airport (WO2005052887 A1) Decision Making (A-CDM) partners. Q 4) Patent: Dynamic ground vehicle tracking and reporting system initiative that encourages (US9275550 B1)

Frankfurt Airport is another of the big European gateways to benefi t from GSE tracking technologies

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BUYER’S ASSESSMENT | BUSSING

Andy Willis, transport operations manager buses at the UK’s Manchester Airport Buyer’s Assessment

In this fi rst Buyer’s Assessment, a feature ndy Willis, transport operations manager buses at Manchester Airport, looks after the northern UK that will form a regular part of gateway’s fleet of buses, both landside and airside. Airside International, we take a look A He holds the operator’s licence for those buses and is at the importance of the airside bussing responsible for compliance with that license, while overseeing their 24 hours a day, 365 days a year operations. operation at the UK’s Manchester Airport, It’s no small job, but he has 21 years of experience in and the Cobus vehicles used to serve it the job to help him. In fact, Willis was a prime contributor to setting up the modern airside bussing operation at Manchester back in 1997, he confirms. The landside and bussing operations at Manchester form part of the wider responsibilities of the Passenger Transport Services division at the airport, which also encompasses trolley collection, transfer baggage movement and airside passenger transfers between terminals, the last of which requires a set of smaller transport vehicles – Alexander Dennis Enviro200 single-deck buses. The Passenger Transport Services operation requires no less than about 300 staff.

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But it is the landside and airside bussing operations that Willis directly oversees, and this is sufficiently complex in its own right. Landside, 36 Alexander Dennis and Optare buses The landside and bussing ferry passengers to the airport from the airport car parks, and operations at Manchester form back again upon their return to the UK. Airside, 33 Cobus buses transport travellers to remote stands from the airport part of the wider responsibilities of terminals, and vice versa. the Passenger Transport Services Manchester Airport is responsible for – and operates – all these buses. The vehicles are serviced by the gateway’s division at the airport own engineers, and small levels of accidental damage can also be fixed on-site. For more significant levels of damage, a vehicle will either be repaired by a subcontractor, or sent service providers operating on the apron. Yet Manchester back to the manufacturer for repair there. The airport’s Airport guarantees a high level of performance from its Motor Transport (MT) department, which handles bus bussing operation through strict service level agreements operations and their servicing, includes about 30 full-time (SLAs) confirmed with the relevant ground handling agents fitters and, as well as looking after the airport’s own buses, (GHAs). also carries out maintenance and repairs for third parties – some of the vehicles and GSE operated by the handlers AIRSIDE FLEET active at Manchester. Th e airport’s airside bussing operation is handled by a fl eet of This is another example of how the airport authority is six Cobus 2700 – acquired just last year – and 27 Cobus 2700s taking some of the onus off the gateway’s handlers, Willis buses. Th e 2700 can take about 95 people, and are particularly says. In particular, because the airport provides all airside suitable for handling the ever-greater number of A380s now bussing, this takes away that requirement from third-party fl ying into Manchester; although the vast majority of these

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“The buses do what they say on the side of the tin”

Cobus buses on the apron at Manchester Airport

superjumbos will dock at terminal piers rather than at remote a huge expansion programme, one that has been described stands, when they do dock remotely the MT division will send as the (English) north-west’s biggest-ever infrastructure about seven 2700 buses to move the 619 or so people that can development project, part of the effort to meet the demands be carried on these huge aircraft . Th e slightly smaller 2700s of the rapidly rising numbers of travellers using the gateway. buses carry about 70 people to and from remote stands. Th ey Larger numbers of passengers, a bigger airport requiring are operated in three shift s of eight hours, every day of the year, more remote (off-terminal) stands and bigger aircraft and Willis is in no doubt about the worth of these vehicles and operated by more and more carriers (Singapore Airlines of their manufacturer. launched A350 services through Manchester in January, “They are the best bit of kit an airport will ever buy,” he for example, adding to the A380 link offered by Emirates, enthuses, pointing to their benefits in terms of reliability, low while Qatar Airways and Etihad are amongst the other fuel consumption and durability. “Our drivers love them, they big long-haul carriers upscaling their operations through won’t drive anything else,” Willis continues, also highlighting Manchester) all mean that the airport’s airside bus fleet is the value of the quick and effective after-sales service offered likely to grow in the near future. The forecast is that the by their manufacturer – Cobus will send an engineer to deal airport may need to handle up to 42 million passengers a with any problem very quickly, he confirms. “When you buy a year by 2024. And, given Willis’s role in any procurement Cobus you don’t just buy a product: you join a family and we decision, it seems highly likely they might well be have such a great relationship with Cobus.” transported on Cobus buses. “The buses do what they say on the side of the tin,” These buses also fulfil an important ancillary role, in Willis assesses. And more may well be procured in the near addition to their regular airside passenger transport. They future, as Manchester Airport is currently in the midst of are on permanent standby to react to any airport emergency,

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whether it relates to a problem on or with an aircraft or in an airport terminal; assigned emergency rendezvous points, they will drive straight to those areas as required, ready to move people from a point of danger. They can also be used simply for short-term localised containment of people in the case of emergency, keeping them safe, out of the elements and avoiding any potential problem of people walking or standing around on the apron.

MAG Manchester Airport Group (MAG), which operates Manchester Airport as well as England’s London Stansted, Bournemouth and East Midlands gateways, is Britain’s biggest UK-owned airport operator. Together, the four airports handle about 42 million passengers a year, with Manchester serving the majority of these. By mid-November last year, MAG could announce that Manchester had served its 25 millionth passenger over the course of that calendar year, the fi rst time it had hit that fi gure in its 78-year history. The airport is the UK’s third-largest, with a catchment area said to reach out from North Wales in the west to Humberside in the east and all the way north up to the Scottish border. Q

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venturing into many A: Bhadra has positioned activities; however, today, at all the seven stations at Handling this is the seventh year that which we operate brand new we have been providing state-of-the-art, pollution- ground support services controlled fleets of ground to almost every important support equipment, serving the pressure airline that visits India. airlines such as British The company was formed Airways, Lufthansa, Cathay Prem Bajaj, managing director and by myself, and continues Pacific, AirAsia, Jet Airways, to be under my leadership Vistara, Oman Air, Qatar chairman of India-based handler as managing director and Airways and various other Bhadra International, talks to Airside chairman. important carriers. about its off ering and extensive GSE fl eet Our equipment includes: Q: Do you also provide a push-backs manufactured range of passenger and/ by Schopf; ground power Q: Can you tell us a little bit or cargo handling services, units (GPUs) and air start about Bhadra’s backgound? as well as your ground units (ASUs) from Hitzinger; A: The company’s formal handling? towbars from Hydro; self- name is Bhadra International A: Indeed, our cargo propelled water and lavatory India Pvt Ltd, and it was handling business is a well- carts from TLD in France; formally incorporated in established business and electric (battery-powered) the year 2000 as a ground we provide cargo handling self-propelled steps from handling agent (GHA). services to almost all our TLD in France; air- Our company has airlines. conditioning units (ACUs) actually been associated from TLD USA; electric with Airports Authority of Q: What sorts of GSE do you tow tugs from TREPEL in India for over three decades, operate? Germany; maindeck loaders,

26 AIRSIDE INTERNATIONAL | SPRING 2017 BHADRA INTERNATIONAL | INTERVIEW

lower deck loaders and innovations have taken place. universal deck loaders from All our ground support TREPEL; transporters from equipment belongs to Bhadra “Our cargo TREPEL; tail stands from International India Pvt Ltd. handling Hydro; self-propelled steps Nothing is on lease. business is a from EINSA in Spain; and luxury passenger coaches Q: What plans do you have well-established from Cobus in Germany. to expand your business, business and we whether geographically or Q: Do you own your own in terms of your product provide cargo GSE or do you typically offering? handling services lease it? Are you looking to A: When it comes to the expand or improve your GSE product offering, we offer to almost all our fl eet at all? our customer airlines a airlines” A: We feel that we are the completely comprehensive Prem Bajaj, managing director and only company in India that handling service. When it chairman, Bhadra International has been able to position comes to expanding the such a state-of-the-art fleet business, we continue to of equipment. As and when evaluate the business on offer, there might be additional and react accordingly. requirements for equipment At this point in time, we we would certainly study the are primarily focused on market, find out if any more ground handling services. Q Sole Source

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Reaching the heights: part two

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AVIOGEI expands its offering

prilia, Italy- most noticeably at the year’s “We’ve had a Italy (such as Rome, Naples, headquartered inter airport exhibition in Bergamo, Verona, Genoa and AVIOGEI supplies a Munich, but since then its lot of demand Pisa), France (Paris), Belgium A wide range of GSE, popularity has quickly grown. from smaller (Brussels), elsewhere in including ambulift s In fact, says Massimiliano Europe (such as in Bucharest), and cargo loaders, as well Martone, international airports wanting in Africa and elsewhere, as passenger stairs, lavatory business development & affordable PRM Martine reveals. and water service units, marketing manager at Th underlift employs belt loaders and dollies. For AVIOGEI, the unit represents equipment” AVIOGEI’s patented Front airports and handlers looking a huge success for its Massimiliano Martone, Loading System (FLS) and its aft er the needs of passengers developer – AVIOGEI has international business ramp lift s to as much as 6m off with restricted mobility sold more than Th underlift s development & marketing the ground, making it suitable (PRM), the company off ers in the 18 months since its manager, AVIOGEI for serving almost all aircraft its small PED ambulift (the unveiling, he confi rms, types (the exception being PED has a maximum loading with more than 28 of them the upper deck of the A380). capacity of 300kg) and the delivered to locations right It can be driven and its lift much larger Th underlift . across Europe. operated by a single handler Th e Th underlift was only Th e unit has been bought from the integrated driver’s launched as recently as 2015, by airports and handlers in cabin. Th e Th underlift can

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take up to 12 passengers (and Beyond the realm of driver) in the cabin and up to loaders and ambulift s, four on its front platform. AVIOGEI also off ers AVIOGEI’s transporter specialised equipment to and loader portfolio is also the military market. As expanding. A new 15-tonne previously revealed in Airside transporter, the TVP1500 is International in 2015, it is, for Massimiliano Martone now being delivered to its fi rst example, meeting some of the customer, while the fi rst units Possible other plans for also revert to a diesel power specialised needs of its home of AVIOGEI’s new 7-tonne the future include AVIOGEI plant, unlike the electrically nation’s Aeronautica Militare TVE7000 transporter/loader looking at ways in which it driven PED. Italiana (AMI) and other air have also been delivered to its can increase the performance As well as new equipment, forces. Th us, in 2016, Aviogei fi rst operator. and effi ciency of its current new customers have been delivered the fi rst batch of 12 Demand for higher portfolio of loaders, Martone added over the past year or heavyweight cranes in support capacity loaders is on the observes, and the company is so. AVIOGEI has a growing of the F35 Lightning II Strike increase, Martone suggests, also considering designing an presence in Africa (while Fighter programme; they and interest has been shown ambulift to straddle the divide always strong in the Maghreb will be used for installation by customers for loaders between the small PED and region, the company is also and removal of the aircraft ’s with a capacity as great as the much larger Th underlift . now selling strongly further lift fan. Production of the 40 tonnes – perhaps for “We’ve had a lot of demand south into Central Africa), in second batch of cranes has the handling of specialised from smaller airports wanting Eastern Europe (such as in just begun, to satisfy the project cargo. It’s a matter for aff ordable PRM equipment,” Romania, Montenegro and LRIP10 contract of the consideration, he confi rms. he notes. Such a vehicle might Serbia) and in France. programme. Q

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DOLL looks to continuous improvement

OLL is continuously improving and optimising its product lines in close contact with its customers and in consideration of changing “D regulations,” confirms Brunhilde Rauscher-Doll, marketing director at Oppenau, Germany- headquartered GSE manufacturer DOLL. And, indeed: “In the last two years, a lot of the relevant regulations have changed,” she continues. “For example, DOLL vehicles are built according to the latest European Catering norm EN 123 12-2:2014.” Rauscher-Doll continues: “The catering truck market is a positive one at the moment. In 2016, DOLL recorded an increase in turnover compared to the previous year and we anticipate further improvement in 2017. The growth rates are in particular the result of our (increased) sales activities in Europe and North America.” DOLL established DOLL America Inc, based in the Philadelphia area, in April last year. There, DOLL manufactures catering trucks for the North American market by way of assembling DOLL kits on local chassis. “In this way DOLL wants to profit from the great potential “The demand for full service of the American market and assure a better service and (support) is increasing signifi cantly, support to our clients,” she notes. as well as the demand for rapid While customer requirements in relation to catering trucks can’t be said to be changing radically, there are availability of trucks” trends that DOLL has identified. “One particular focus at Brunhilde Rauscher-Doll, marketing director, DOLL DOLL is the safety of aircraft and operators,” Rauscher- Doll confirms, so DOLL is offering careful user guidance to prevent operating errors and has integrated in its different components what she describes as “highly sensitive sensors and indicators” designed to promote safer handling. “Besides the requirement of the customers for having vehicles with the latest technology, customers’ requirements for reliable service, maintenance and support are obvious,” she continues. “The demand for full service (support) is increasing significantly, as well as the demand for rapid availability of trucks. As a consequence of this development, DOLL is offering stock vehicles for immediate procurement, as well as the option to rent vehicles.” A recent development we have previously covered in Airside International is DOLL’s battery-powered ecat high-loader catering truck. “We are taking note of an increasing but not yet strong demand for ecat vehicles,” Rauscher-Doll reports. “Th e amount of investment required for an ecat with batteries as its power source is still very high compared with the investment required for a vehicle with a diesel engine. Th e low price for diesel in the past months enhances this problem.” Q

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Innovative Equipment brings in the new

ome new lift s were on display at the International the customer can use for multiple tasks and adding a new Airport Ground Support Expo held in Las Vegas in dimension to it, thus giving them a machine that will serve October last year. One such is off ered by Wisconsin, US- many purposes. One question we had from a major airline S based Innovative Equipment, which had two examples of representative was “Can it lift 250lbs of drinks to the passenger its UTX scissor lift on display. door of a 737?” Th e answer is ‘yes’.” Th e UTX fi ts onto a utility task vehicle (UTV) or similar Dack continues: “At the moment we are looking to establish chassis that was only released by the company onto the market the product in North America, before expanding to overseas recently. It can be levelled on uneven ground with a slope of markets,” possibly in the second or third quarter of this year. up to 12 degrees and is said to be ideal for applications such as “Th e GSE show in Las Vegas generated a great deal of in-hangar maintenance and repair and de-icing. interest and we are already talking with several large airlines,” Th e UTX fi ts onto any UTV that has a box capacity of Dack adds. “We have had responses from major international 1,000lbs or more, with the UTX30 model suited to UTVs with airlines, small domestic airlines and GSE companies. Th e a cargo box capacity of between 1,000 and 1,500lbs, and the response has been very encouraging, given that we have only UTX44 suited to UTVs with a box capacity of over 1,500lbs. just released the product to the GSE industry.” It has a maximum working height of 19ft and can lift up to Looking at the market for these sorts of lift s, he opines: 500lbs. Explains Innovative Equipment’s general manager Marc “Th e scissor lift market is fairly strong. However it is very Dack: “Th e beauty of this machine is that it can be relocated competitive. But there is nothing in the market that provides very quickly. the speed and ability to level on rough terrain like the UTX. “Primarily, we are utilising a high-speed vehicle that Especially at the price on off er.” Q

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Denge: award-winning Baumann secures stanbul-based Denge Airport Equipment offers patent for a range of ambulifts next-gen I designed for catering to the special needs of PaxLift PRM. Managing director Murat Denge explains: “After At the end of last year, launching our SD-5804 another Italian ambulift self-propelled ambulift, an manufacturer, Verona-based Baumann, confirmed that award-winning product at it had received a European inter airport, we have had patent for its all-new PaxLift. The PaxLift has been seen a significant increase in both in Las Vegas at the GSE demand for this model. decorated interior have also operationally speaking Expo there and at the Airport “Although, due to its become a source of interest almost all the units in the Show in Dubai, but its official launch is expected to take very nature, we have not of late. Therefore, we have marketplace are able to place early this year. added any new models to made a third design for an effectively fulfil their intended The PaxLift reaches the range, we have made a interior cabin, although it functions of simply lifting up to a height of 8m and has a capacity of up to 2 lot of improvements to the is not yet in production. All and bringing down.” tonnes. It has four steering unit,” he notes. “As a result other requirements outlined Moreover, Denge wheels for maximum of customer feedback, we by customers are either continues: “In the long run, manoeuvrability, features integrated suspension, is have made improvements already or being adopted in automated GSE units that diesel-powered and can in the driving chassis and the current model.” are integrated with all other reach a speed of 30km/h. It has space for up to six eliminated all operator And what of the future? external factors might be wheelchair passengers plus misuse options, by adding a “I believe, in the short run, used on aprons – we might helpers and is operated by a number of safety features. due to changes in aircraft see smart GSE on the ramps. single driver. “Moreover, even though production material, ‘no- Denge has a long-run project “We saw a need for a high quality passenger the system has safety docking dock’ policies will come to concerning this.” cabin with lifting capacity applications, our R&D be used by all airlines, while Denge Airport Equipment from ground level up to 8,000mm, something which department is currently in safety features will become a also manufactures a does not require steps the final phase of developing must-have,” Denge expects. maintenance lift called the nor an additional lifting a more efficient safety “I also assume that, in the MP-2000. Demand for this platform, offers easy access and great manoeuvrability docking system for all of our near future, we might be sort of equipment tends to reach the airplane door, GSE. Hopefully, we will have seeing more aesthetically to be fairly volatile, Denge and is in keeping with the Baumann ethos of quality this ready in the third quarter pleasing lifts start to be reports. The large amount and reliability,” says Klaus of this year. preferred, rather than an of competition in this Pirpamer, Baumann’s “The PRM market is a ‘industrial lift’ look to GSE. market, plus the variety of managing director. special sub-market with its Also, better cabins for GSE, different models available, “Our starting point for the PaxLift was comfort, own characteristics, and – more comfortable seats for lets customers choose exactly convenience and reliability,” since all of us are getting operators and such like will the right product for their he continues. Having exhibited at ground support older, and disabled people are grow in popularity, since specific purpose, he says. Q equipment and airport more mobile than in times passenger transport events past – the PRM market will on both sides of the Atlantic, the dedicated design and continue to be buoyant,” high lifting capacities have Denge predicts. “I believe, in the short run, due created surprisingly high “As ever, customers are interest. to changes in aircraft production “With a tight turning demanding more and more,” circle, clearer view and he continues. “However, material, ‘no-dock’ policies will smaller footprint, we we have realised that VIP believe we have the safest come to be used by all airlines” option available,” Pirpamer ambulift requirements concludes. Q featuring an aesthetically Murat Denge, managing director, Denge Airport Equipment

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Lift-A-Loft Corporation raises the bar

uncie, Indiana-headquartered Lift -A-Loft Corporation addition of a system that can be applied to the company’s off ers a range of maintenance and service lift s to the TMX truck-mounted maintenance lift s that allows engineers aviation industry. Last year, recalls special accounts to leave the platform safely and work atop the fuselage of an M manager Christopher Barefoot, it had what was surely aircraft . Designed specifi cally for a company that required such its best year since the turn of the century. Demand a system, the system was brought to market in 2013 and has for its maintenance lift s has been really high, he explains, since proved very popular, says Barefoot. attributing that spike in the main to US carriers having over Th e TMX26-15 is eff ective up to a working height of 26 feet, the last few years consolidated, got their fi nances in order and and it can be used for those working on aircraft right up to as such been able to invest in GSE such as maintenance lift s B777 size, while a TMX32-15 is also available. that during the previous decade of relatively hard times they Lift -A-Loft also now off ers the TMX36 truck-mounted had not viewed as a priority. maintenance lift that operates to a working height of 36 feet, and Demand for its revamped APX20 maintenance lift has is ideal for those working on an A380. It can be supplied with an been particularly healthy, Barefoot says. Lift -A-Loft previously overhead crane unit on the platform that allows the engineer to off ered APX16 and APX20 maintenance lift models (the install or otherwise work on an A380’s emergency slides. number referring to the maximum operating height of the Barefoot points to a particular trend in market demand lift s), but in 2014 it consolidated the APX range into a new as relating to maintenance lift s – a move towards gasoline- APX20LP that can be lowered to just 39 inches off the ground powered, rather than diesel-powered, units. Th e exception in (the platform fl oor minimum height) and that has a greater the US, at least with regard to Lift -A-Loft customers, has been platform area. in California, where options such as the electric-powered APX Other improvements to the portfolio have included the unit off ered by Lift -A-Loft have proved popular. Q

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Looking forward to GSE & Ramp-Ops 2017

his year, EVA International is re-launching GSE&RAMP-OPS the event as a new and improved conference EVENT focusing specifi cally on the manufacturers, T buyers and end-users of ground support equipment. Th e 2017 GSE & Ramp Ops In addition to GSE procurement strategies, the event GSE & Ramp Ops conference will also incorporate , the annual conference elements of aircraft de-icing, as well as cover how and exhibition that accompanies the industry can best prevent damage to aircraft and complements Airside on the ground. The 2017 event will again feature a plenary session, bringing together top-level International, will be held industry experts to discuss the big issues facing all between 25 and 27 April in those involved in airside operations. Milan. Th e location will be the The conference will offer an insight into where opportunities and growing markets are high-class Sheraton hotel at to be found, as well as providing an important Milan Malpensa Airport networking forum. Speakers and delegates

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will be leading industry role in advocating change in decision-makers, with the industry. many years of experience This year, the event in the GSE and wider ramp introduces a brand operations arena – including new concept, whereby senior executives from manufacturers and airlines, airport authorities, procurement executives go ground handlers, GSE through an intensive session manufacturers, financiers of three-minute meetings and equipment lessors. – Speed Networking. Discussions will be This represents a perfect based on the integrated opportunity for those ramp operations ecosystem, involved to launch new showcasing interlinked business relationships, which subjects relating to GSE, in turn can develop into airport operations, winter prosperous partnerships. It’s operations, baggage handling, all about maximum impact, safety and training. The aim because after the three is to discuss all aspects of minutes are up, the whistle ramp operation strategies blows and another buyer amongst airlines, ground comes along. handlers, suppliers and As at all of the annual airports, and to take a leading Airside conferences,

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manufacturers of GSE and ramp operations equipment will be on hand, displaying their wares and keen to talk to potential operators and users of their equipment.

BUILDING ON 2016 Last year, we were in Brussels, where attendees heard from a wide range of industry experts on issues just as broad in nature. Th e 2016 Airside Event conference was held at the Brussels Sheraton Hotel just two days aft er a airside community even terrorist attack on Istanbul’s closer together. Despite Ataturk International Airport the challenges, however, and just a couple of months the combined conference aft er another such attack on and exhibition was another Brussels Airport. big success, and we fully The shock of these anticipate more of the same events perhaps brought the this year. Q

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Airport Show 2017 preview

Airside International talks to Daniyal Qureshi, group exhibition director for show organiser Reed Exhibitions Middle East, about what we can expect fr om this year’s Airport Show in Dubai

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Q: Th e Airport Show held in Dubai in 2016 seemed as well attended and as busy as ever. What were the numbers? A: Airport Show has become the largest and the most sought-aft er event in the aviation industry and an ideal B2B (business-to-business) platform for companies to showcase aviation-related products and services. Th e show has been recording a strong year-on-year growth, the result of growing interest in this region from the global aviation industry and, importantly, the dedicated platforms that Airport Show off ers to its exhibitors as well as the choice of participants. Th ere has been a double-digit increase year-on-year in space bookings for the 2017 edition, which will take place on 15-17 May at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. In 2016, the show had a participation of over 318 exhibitors from 55 countries and 7,166 attendees, compared to 290 A: Th e dedicated platforms such as ‘Business Connect’, exhibiting companies from 32 countries and 7,120 attendees in the focus on the latest technology in aviation and the choice the previous event. of exhibitors are among the many reasons that make Airport Show a must-attend event. Q: Of course, there’s much more to a successful show than Th e Airport Show was a resounding success in 2016. In our just numbers; what would you say were the big successes of post-show survey, over 91% of exhibitors said they were likely the 2016 event? Did you receive plenty of positive feedback to recommend Airport Show to colleagues and 85% of them on the show? agreed that Airport Show is a must-attend event.

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Exhibitors see it as the most important airport-related event to the requirements of diverse segments within the industry. in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where Business Connect, for instance, through pre-scheduled they have the opportunity to meet executives from airports and meetings with key officials from regional airport authorities aviation authorities, airport consultants and contractors from and contractors of mega airport projects, makes participation the MENA region, in addition to participating in a number in the show highly rewarding for our exhibitors. of educational platforms, such as the CAPA Global Airport In addition to Airport Business Connect, which has Leaders Forum (GALF), Women in Aviation conference and been running for the last several years, we have Africa Innovation Podium, which provide in-depth information about Business Connect and ATC Business Connect, which we the industry. launched last year, while we are introducing Airport Security Exhibitors also appreciate the chance to meet with the local Business Connect in 2017 to ensure attendees have targeted and international media who extensively cover the Airport Show. opportunities to achieve their event objectives. The show will also feature World Travel Catering and Onboard Services Expo Middle East (WTCEME), the region’s “Over the years, Airport Show has only dedicated event for the travel catering industry and CAPA Global Airport Leaders Forum (GALF), organised by CAPA – expanded and now caters to the Centre for Aviation, as co-located events. requirements of diverse segments within the industry”

Q: What’s the floor space going to be this year, and how does this compare to two years ago? A: The Airport Show was spread over 10,000m2 in 2015, a figure that has increased to over 11,500m2 this year.

Q: How will you build on the success of last year? And what new features will form part of this year’s Airport Show? A: To ensure that we cater to the growing needs of the aviation industry in today’s dynamic business environment, we keep adding new and exciting features to the show. The show will cover seven sectors: Airport Build and Installations, Airfield Construction and Installations, Airport Operations, Airport Security, Airport Technology and IT, Ground Support Equipment and Services, and Air Traffic Management, while the 2017 event will also offer dedicated Q: The Airport Show in Dubai is one of the benchmark Airport Security and Air Traffic Management Zones, in shows for this market space; can you summarise why you addition to Business Connect (pre-scheduled meetings). think it is such an ongoing success? Airport Security will take centre stage at the Airport A: The Airport Show has clearly established itself as the top Show 2017, featuring a host of exclusive benefits for global aviation industry event on a global level. Its success is largely airport security vendors such as showcasing cutting-edge due to the unwavering confidence and strong growth of the technologies from around the world, an exclusive ‘Business Middle East’s aviation sector. Breakfast’ session for vendors to network with key regional Growth of the aviation sector in this region has outpaced airport security officials and a Hosted Buyers programme, global growth, especially in terms of number of passenger guaranteeing pre-scheduled meetings for exhibitors with numbers and the Airport Show, with the support of Dubai regional security buyers. Civil Aviation Authority, Dubai Airports, Dubai Aviation The Air Traffic Management Zone will showcase an Engineering Projects, dnata and a host of regional airport entire spectrum of air traffic control (ATC) technologies and authorities, provides an effective platform for suppliers and solutions, and exhibitors will get to discuss the challenges and buyers to develop new partnerships. opportunities, best practices and technologies for the fast- We expect this to continue in the long term and our strategy expanding industry as well as meet the key decision-makers is to continuously work toward enhancing this show, bring from across the region’s ATC authorities. additional features that can offer a highly rewarding experience Over the years, Airport Show has expanded and now caters to exhibitors, supporters, stakeholders and participants alike. Q

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HANDLING Obaidalla, chief commercial scheduling which in turn International Airport. The officer at flydubai. “We know reduces wait times for deal covers 25 boarding SWISSPORT OMAN that (Swissport) will continue departing passengers.” bridges, air handling units AGREES GROUND to help enhance the efficiency The new system increases and 400Hz ground power HANDLING DEAL IN of our operations.” the average number of equipment. JBT will also act MUSCAT passengers carried on each as the systems integrator for Swissport Oman, a subsidiary TECHNOLOGY bus trip from 40 to over 60. electrically powered ground of Swissport International, It thus reduces the number support equipment charging has signed a contract DUBAI AIRPORTS of bus trips by 20%, which stations and aircraft parking with Dubai-based airline EMPLOYS ITS in turn limits fuel burn and devices. flydubai to provide ground Dubai Airports has begun emissions. And it alleviates JBT supplied boarding handling services for the using an Intelligent Traffic congestion during peak bridges as part of Salt Lake airline’s operations at Muscat System (ITS), which optimises operations. City Airport’s re-development International Airport. the co-ordination of buses “DXB Plus initiatives are in project in 1982. Moreover, Swissport will provide used to shuttle passengers line with smart government since 2009, JBT has supplied flydubai with comprehensive from Dubai International and proof that technology services to maintain the ground handling services, Airport’s (DXB’s) Terminal 2 can be applied to many parts gateway’s Terminal 2 baggage including passenger and ramp departure gates to the aircraft. of our business to improve handling system and, since handling, baggage services, The new system forms the passenger experience, 2013, it has maintained the operations coordination and part of a wider programme boost efficiency and help us airport’s gate equipment, load control. The agreement designed to increase annual augment capacity,” Thompson including boarding with flydubai was said to passenger handling capacity declares. bridges, pre-conditioned have been “the result of a at Dubai International to 118 air units, and ground rigorous selection process” million by 2023. EQUIPMENT power units. Currently, and becomes effective as of 15 “It is another world first ACQUISITION JBT has approximately 25 April 2017. for DXB. It is the first time employees engaged full-time flydubai has a network of this technology has been SALT LAKE CITY in providing maintenance more than 85 destinations implemented and used in INTERNATIONAL services at Salt Lake City in 43 countries. The airline this manner,” observes Bryan AIRPORT TURNS International Airport. operates more than 1,600 Thompson, senior vice TO JBT flights every week. president – development at Late last year, JBT confirmed OSHKOSH DELIVERS “With up to six flights a operator Dubai Airports. that it had been awarded NEW VEHICLES day, Muscat is an important “The system is fail-safe, and a contract for the supply IN THE US destination on the flydubai provides a fully automated of various types of gate Oshkosh confirmed in network,” observes Hamad solution to coordinate bus equipment to Salt Lake City January this year that it had

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delivered 33 Oshkosh snow is in service, the airport will snow per hour, with a cast accepted the certification removal vehicles to Dallas/ be able to simultaneously distance of up to 200 feet. The plans for the company’s Fort Worth International clear runways on both the system features a two-stage WheelTug® aircraft electric Airport (DFW). The delivery east side and west side of the blower head, a variable speed drive system designed for incorporated 14 Oshkosh HT- airport. hydrostatic ribbon, and a B737NG aircraft. Series multi-function units, The 14 Oshkosh HT-Series dedicated 700 HP engine. The WheelTug system eight Oshkosh H-Series XF multi-function units each The six Oshkosh P-Series enables an aircraft to taxi front-mounted, high-speed feature 24-foot front-mounted 6x6 (model 2552) trucks forward and backward, using snow removal brooms, five ploughs and 22-foot towed feature a 77,000 lb axle small electric motors in its Oshkosh H-Series high- brooms. The apparatus can capacity and will be equipped nose wheels rather than via speed snow blowers and six simultaneously perform a with a 5,000-gallon de- its jet engines or a tow tug. Oshkosh P-Series trucks. myriad of functions, including icer tank and hydraulically It will benefit airlines by The purchase represents one ploughing and brooming. actuated booms that swing well over US$1 million per of the largest airport snow The eight Oshkosh XF out when deployed. Unlike airplane per year, according removal apparatus orders in front-mounted, high-speed many commercial vehicles to the company, reduce fuel the company’s history. brooms include a 46-inch that are adapted to airport consumption and emissions “To be selected by such diameter sweeper broom snow operations, the Oshkosh at airports, and save up to an important international and dual forced air blowers P-Series is engineered and 20 minutes in ground time hub for an entire fleet of (producing 450mph velocity built to perform in the most between flights. snow removal apparatus air simultaneously from both severe of winter conditions. Additionally, WheelTug is extremely rare,” notes sides of the vehicle). The will enable aircraft to parallel Jeff Resch, Oshkosh broom head and air blower ARFFs park at terminal gates; using Airport Products Group are hydrostatically driven, Also in the US, but on the two doors for narrowbody vice president and general with infinitely variable speed East Coast, the Port Authority boarding and deplaning will manager. “This isn’t just a hydraulic pumps and fixed of New York and New Jersey allow for even more expedited group of trucks, it’s a runway displacement motors. The (PANYNJ), operator of New travel, the manufacturer team engineered to perform units also include an active York JFK, LaGuardia and notes. in unison at DFW. And weight transfer system that Newark Liberty airports, has The FAA Seattle Aircraft it represents a significant keeps weight on the front ordered 24 Striker aircraft Certification Office has upgrade in snow removal axle for improved chassis rescue and fire fighting approved the Project Specific capabilities to help keep this and broom performance. The (ARFF) vehicles from Certification Plans for the vital airport open in harsh units are configured to meet Oshkosh Airport Products. WheelTug system. These conditions, where runway the specific requirements of The deal takes in 14 plans detail how WheelTug closings and delays are DFW. Oshkosh Striker 6x6 vehicles, will comply with all relevant measured in the millions of The five Oshkosh H-Series seven of which are equipped regulations in order to be dollars.” high-speed blowers can each with a 65-foot Snozzle High granted a Supplemental Type When the new equipment throw up to 5,000 tons of Reach Extendable Turret Certificate (STC). The STC is (HRET), and ten Striker 4x4 a key document for aircraft vehicles. PANYNJ has also operation, and once granted, purchased a Striker Simulator WheelTug can be installed on virtual reality training system aircraft. as part of the deal. WheelTug will first be available for the Boeing CERTIFICATION 737NG family of aircraft; entry into service is expected WHEELTUG GETS THE in late 2018. Versions for GREEN LIGHT ON other aircraft types are also NEW ELECTRIC DRIVE planned. SYSTEM WheelTug’s order book In January, WheelTug already totals almost 1,000 of the US announced systems for aircraft from 22 Oshkosh has delivered 33 snow removal vehicles that the Federal Aviation airlines worldwide. to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Administration (FAA) had

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HACTL IGOM Hactl finance director Amy Lam receives the pioneering of new standards IGOM certificate from IATA head of ground CERTIFICATION in Hong Kong and operations Joseph Suidan REPRESENTS A FIRST throughout the industry, IN HONG KONG and that it’s yet another In November last year, Hong important differentiator Kong Air Cargo Terminals for us.” Limited (Hactl) was certified as being in full compliance INFRASTRUCTURE with the standardised DEVELOPMENT procedures laid out in the IATA Ground Operations NEW ORLEANS Manual (IGOM). It became ANNOUNCES NORTH the first handler in Hong TERMINAL PROJECT Kong to achieve IGOM GATE EXPANSION certification. In January, city mayor Mitch Through IGOM, IATA Landrieu and the New is driving the adoption of Orleans Aviation Board a single industry ground (NOAB) announced a five- operations manual, replacing gate expansion of the Louis the large number of separate Armstrong New Orleans manuals and standards International Airport North currently in use with airlines, Terminal Project, bringing ground handlers and airports the total number of gates around the world. IGOM’s from 30 to 35. goal is to establish global associated with multiple flawless audit results. There In January 2016, Mayor standardisation of policies airline ground operations are hundreds of separate Mitch Landrieu joined the and procedures, a uniform manuals, standardise training ground operations manuals in New Orleans Aviation Board minimum level of safety and requirements and reduce the use globally, and we applaud (NOAB), regional elected a standard set of policies incidence of aircraft damage IATA’s initiative in aligning officials, and business and and procedures for use in by applying common and and upgrading all standards tourism leaders to break the IATA Safety Audit for robust procedures. in a single document. This is ground on the new North Ground Operations (ISAGO) Benny Siu, manager particularly welcome at Hactl, Terminal complex. The airport standard. – quality assurance at which serves over a hundred terminal will serve as an Applying IGOM Hactl, explains: “This is an different customer airlines. economic driver for the New standards is expected extension of our ISAGO “We believe Hactl’s Orleans metropolitan region. to drive costs down by compliance, for which we IGOM certification is “This gate expansion is reducing the complexity have consistently obtained further evidence of its great news for our city and

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state,” notes Landrieu. “We are staging area. adds: “Th e North Terminal (3RS) project. growing at a record pace. In Th e anticipated funding of Project always included The new terminal will 2016, the growth of the Louis the US$110 million expansion the option to expand to as have a floor area of 280,000 Armstrong International will be through airport bonds. high as 42 gates. Due to our square metres. “We have Airport exceeded our Th e project is on track to be current passenger traffi c and assembled a team of highly- expectations yet again. completed in October 2018. anticipated future growth, regarded specialists in many With increased service via Mark Reis, interim a fi ve-gate expansion is areas of aviation design 17 airlines and 59 non-stop director of Aviation for Louis necessary to handle continued and engineering,” reports destinations, including seven Armstrong New Orleans growth in the facility.” Paul Sankey, vice president, international destinations, International Airport, aviation, AECOM Hong we have hit the triggers for remarks: “Our growth has AECOM GETS THE Kong. “Many of the team additional expansion.” surpassed all previously NOD FOR HKIA’S 3RS members have hands-on Announced in April 2013, forecasted data. Today, we PASSENGER BUILDING experience of past and the new North Terminal will have more airlines and non- Global infrastructure current projects with Hong be constructed on the north stop destinations than ever specialist AECOM announced Kong International Airport. side of the existing Louis before. Based on this growth, in November last year that They will bring technical Armstrong New Orleans we updated our activity it had been awarded the excellence and knowledge International Airport. The forecast which showed that detailed design consultancy of airport design and approximately 820,000 square expansion plans need to work for Hong Kong engineering to ensure cost- foot terminal will feature 35 begin sooner than originally International Airport’s effectiveness and on-schedule gates, a 2,200-car parking anticipated.” (HKIA) new passenger implementation through garage, a central utility plant Cheryl Teamer, chair of the building, part of the gateway’s the provision of ‘buildable’ and a ground transportation New Orleans Aviation Board, huge Th ree-runway System design.”

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The Third Runway Corporation Limited (HSBC) LANE SEALS concourses, runways, roads Passenger Building, in its as a financial consultant AL MAKTOUM and tunnels. In preparation primary phase, will have 57 to study the detailed DEVELOPMENT for the expansion, Lane will aircraft parking positions funding plan for the 3RS. CONTRACT work on temporary fences and will be able to handle The contract was awarded The Lane Construction and gates, utilities and 30 million passengers through a tender process. Corporation, a US subsidiary site offices, as well as site each year, together with The financial consultant of the Salini Impregilo security. Once completed, the modified Terminal 2. will analyse different debt Group, has won contracts the expanded airport is The AECOM team and its structures and identify in the UAE and the US, for expected to accommodate partners will research and different forms of financial projects in Dubai and in more than 220 million conduct benchmarking instruments in both the Pennsylvania. passengers a year, making studies that will assist the bank loan and capital Lane’s contract in the it the world’s biggest in design team working with the markets, and make detailed former relates to the Al terms of size and passenger client to deliver the facility. recommendations on the Maktoum International capacity by 2050. Work has already begun and instruments (such as retail Airport Expansion Project. construction is expected to bonds) in relation to timing, Working alongside the M&A be completed in 2024. size, tenor, and so on, that National Contracting And, in other news from will enable the AA to raise Transportation Corp of GROUPE CIT TAKES HKIA, in December Airport funding for the 3RS project Sharjah, Lane will be CONTROL OF COBALT Authority Hong Kong (AA) in the best way possible. responsible for 60% of the GROUND SOLUTIONS announced the appointment The study is expected to be US$125 million project, Group CRIT, through its of The Hongkong and completed by the middle of which incorporates subsidiary Groupe Europe Shanghai Banking this year. new terminal facilities, Handling, announced in

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January its acquisition of provides ground handling d’Azur. Through its subsidiary become ExxonMobil’s long- 100% of Cobalt Ground services to international Sky Handling Partner, the term wholesale distributor Solutions, a subsidiary airlines there including Group is also active at London for general aviation fuel in of Air France-KLM and Air France-KLM, KLM City Airport and in Ireland Canada. the third-largest ground CityHopper, Aeromexico, at Dublin and Shannon. In The remaining airport handling services provider China Southern, Delta Africa, the Group operates locations in France, the UK, at London Heathrow Airlines, Etihad Airways, in Congo, Sierra Leone and Germany, Italy, Australia and Airport. The transaction Japan Airlines, Jet Airways, provides technical assistance New Zealand were expected resulted from the letter Kenya Airways, Korean in Gabon and Mali. It also to close in the period up to of intent whose signing Airlines and Virgin Atlantic. operates in the Dominican the end of the first quarter of was announced on 28 The integration of Cobalt Republic. this year, subject to customary November 2016. Ground Solutions, effective regulatory consents and Founded in 2009 by as of 1 January 2017, is WFS ACQUIRES closing conditions, including merging the two ground expected by the company EXXONMOBIL securing appropriate third- services subsidiaries of Air to bring additional sales of AFFILIATES party consents. France (AFSL) and KLM over 40 million euros (US$43 Late last year, World Fuel “We are pleased to expand (KGS), Cobalt Ground million). Services Corporation our global aviation network Solutions provides full Group CRIT is a leading completed the acquisition into airport locations in ground handling services ground handling services of the aviation fuelling Canada and France,” notes (passenger check-in, provider in France. Subsidiary operations of certain Michael Kasbar, chairman and ticketing, baggage and ramp Group Europe Handling ExxonMobil affiliates at 34 CEO of World Fuel Services handling) at Terminals 3 is active at the airports of airports in Canada and two in Corporation. “The closing and 4 at Heathrow. Cobalt Roissy, Orly and Nice Côte France. World Fuel has also of these locations, combined

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with the existing World Fuel in its North American and operations at Toronto Pearson dnata Singapore business, will provide customers European wing de-icing International Airport. The Elsewhere, dnata Singapore has with a premier global fuelling businesses. Building on investment marks dnata’s won multi-year contracts with network across the United States longstanding relationships in first step into the Canadian Cathay Pacific for handling its and Canada and in strategic Europe, LNT is also working market. passenger and ramp services, locations in France.” with partner airports to GTA’s airport handling as well as for freighter aircraft “Our strong cash flow develop innovative recyclable operations were launched in ground handling and cargo profile enabled us to fund runway de-icing solutions. 2014. The company serves handling for its subsidiary, Air this acquisition with cash- Lowe continues: “We have over 1,400 flights a year and Hong Kong. on-hand, leaving our existing seen a lot of success in our handles over 58,000 tonnes of Cathay Pacific operates liquidity facilities available North American runway cargo each year at its 83,000 63 flights per week from to fund organic growth de-icing business but our square foot warehouse facility Singapore Changi Airport and additional strategic focus has to be on investment at Toronto Pearson. Terminal 1 and has plans investments,” confirms Ira in new technologies. LNT is Key customers for GTA to operate from Singapore Birns, executive vice president known in the industry for our include Lufthansa, Austrian Changi Airport Terminal 4 and chief financial officer. forward-looking approach Airlines, Brussels Airlines, when it opens in 2017. dnata to de-icing and for us, wing Cargojet, China Southern Singapore will also move LNT SOLUTIONS de-icing is the most exciting Airlines, Emirates, Ethiopian to Terminal 4 to support SELLS ITS NORTH element of this strategy.” Airlines, Fly Jamaica, Korean Cathay Pacific to support AMERICAN RUNWAY LNT has retained the Air, SWISS and WestJet. these passenger services. DE-ICING BUSINESS rights to its GEN 3 runway This transaction does Additionally, dnata Singapore TO NACHURS de-icing product outside not include GTA’s other will also provide freighter UK-based LNT Solutions North America to enable it businesses including GSE aircraft and cargo handling has sold the North American to continue to offer a suite of sales and maintenance, for Air Hong Kong’s six arm of its runway de-icing solutions to partners. which will continue to weekly flights from Singapore business to Nachurs Alpine Jeff Barnes, CEO of be owned and managed Changi Airport. Solutions, a move that it says Nachurs Alpine Solutions, independently. Otherwise, forms part of its strategic plan informs: “Nachurs Alpine the Mississauga-based Strong performance in 2016 to focus on developing longer Solutions has a long history company’s cargo and ground Finally, the handler’s UAE term customer collaborations of offering high-quality handling operations will be operations continued to grow through innovative de- chemical solutions to a range rebranded to GTA dnata. throughout 2016, a statement icing products alongside of industries and customers. “This investment in GTA is from the handling arm of its ongoing programme of This acquisition allows us to another important milestone Emirates Group reported at expansion into new markets. further build upon over 15 for dnata,” informs Stewart the beginning of this year. Matt Lowe, LNT’s chief years of experience in airfield Angus, dnata’s divisional It was “a challenging executive, explains: “Whilst and transportation de-icer senior vice president year but our team has we had grown that part of chemicals. It represents of international airport demonstrated unwavering LNT Solutions to serve the our ongoing focus and operations. “It allows us to commitment to delivering North American market, commitment especially to the fulfil our strategy to provide the highest standards to our it had become increasingly runway de-icer segment, an the highest level of customer customers”, comments Steve divergent from the rest of our area of strategic importance.” service in the key markets Allen, divisional senior vice business. The sale to Nachurs across the Americas.” president (DSVP) dnata Alpine Solutions allows us dnata ENTERS In the past five years, airport operations. “We have to continue to invest in our CANADIAN CARGO dnata has steadily expanded worked hard to stay agile, research and development, AND GROUND its international operations efficient and innovative, while keeping LNT at the forefront HANDLING MARKET with a series of partnerships never compromising our safety of the industry.” dnata, the air services and acquisitions. Within and operational excellence. LNT is expanding its provider operation within the last year or so dnata has 2017 will require us to be even market presence into Russia the Emirates Group, has announced investments in more tactile and responsive to and Asia, and is continuing reached an agreement with cargo facilities in Amsterdam the needs of the market, and to develop long-term Canada’s GTA Aviation to and operations in Milan as stay on top of our game to relationships on the back of purchase a 50% stake in its well as at 26 airports in Brazil ensure a robust year ahead.” innovative new technologies cargo and ground handling and 25 airports in the US. 2016 saw unprecedented

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International Civil Aviation 20 years. Th at says a lot about Organization (ICAO), the our quality. Our growing European Aviation Safety quality team will help us Agency (EASA) and the meet the future demands for North Atlantic Treaty increased equipment life.” Organization (NATO) — boasting a constant average PARTNERSHIPS luminance that widely exceeds ICAO’s requirements. OSU SIGNS CONTRACT WITH AIRPLANE APPOINTMENTS TRANSPORTING SYSTEMS FOR FAST RUSHES TO AIRCRAFT HANDLING growth in aircraft handling electric, hybrid or CNG EXPAND ITS QUALITY RESEARCH and passenger movements. powered. DEPARTMENT Th e New Product dnata ensured the tight FAST Global Solutions, Development Center (NPDC) schedule ran smoothly at NEW PRODUCT parent company of WASP of Oklahoma State University both its Dubai hubs – Dubai Ground Support Equipment, has signed a contract with International Airport LIMS SUPER-SLIM has expanded its quality Airplane Transporting (DXB) and Al Maktoum FOR APRON USE department, its quality team Systems (ATS) World Wide International Airport at Italian company OCEM now numbering 15 employee/ to conduct research and DWC. Th e latter also saw a Airfi eld Technology has owners, including safety development into producing spike in passenger numbers launched a new LED engineers, inspectors and engineering drawings and the airport also developed Luminous Guidance technicians. that will lead to a working into a regional freight hub Sign (LIMS) that off ers “Th e goal of our prototype of an automated (with a capacity to handle up customisable smart department is to not only system for handling landed to 16 million tonnes of cargo electronics in what it meet but exceed customers’ aircraft . a year). dnata handled more describes as a “super-slim” quality expectations,” insists Th e ATS is an innovative than 117,000 tonnes of cargo frame. Ryan McKnight, FAST’s system designed to transport last year at DWC and this LIMS, which is just 4mm quality manager. “FAST is aircraft from the runway via number will continue to grow, thick, is designed for use known for its top-notch the taxiway to the airport the handler promises. on airport taxiways and ground support equipment, gates and back to the runway. Globally, dnata operates runways to mark taxi routes and we are constantly looking Upon landing, the pilot taxis in 84 countries across six and intersections by day for ways to improve the the aircraft to the taxiway continents and is one of the and night. Th e signs are processes and our products where the ATS system is world’s largest air services UV and abrasion-resistant to maintain our reputation. installed, ready for use. providers, off ering ground and waterproof, and can Having such a robust team Next, the aircraft nose handling, cargo, travel, and withstand high wind speeds allows us to assign quality wheel is driven into the ATS fl ight catering services. of up 322km/hr. A special control inspectors at every pull car, then secured, and It currently deploys 10,000 reinforced version is also stage, from engineering to finally the aircraft engines pieces of GSE and vehicles, of available that withstands wind production to fi nal product are shut down saving fuel which 2,000 are motorised. speeds of up to 483km/hr. testing.” and reducing emissions. dnata has introduced Th e signs are said to “We’ve produced hundreds The ATS system uses special environmentally friendly be easy to install and fully and thousands of pieces channels with a rail system electric tow tractors, conveyor compatible with existing of our ground support built beneath the taxiway and belts and pushback tractors, airfi eld ground lighting and equipment supplying major powered by electrical motors GSE with engines meeting control and monitoring airlines in all 50 US states in the channels to transport Euro III emission standards. systems. and 65 countries,” adds Dane aircraft. The pull car moves It is testing hybrid and CNG Th ey can be 1 to 3 metres Anderson, FAST’s president each aircraft along the powered vehicles and it long, depending on the and CEO. “One major airline channel to the appropriate hopes to convert motorised writing required, and comply has a fl eet of more than gate. For gate departure, equipment wherever feasible with a variety of regulatory 20,000 pieces of our GSE with the ATS pull car pushes the from diesel powered to bodies — including the an average equipment age of aircraft away from the gate

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and pulls it along the taxiway increase our presence in the TowFLEXX-PR-1-2017 and to the runway. Lastly, major aviation markets of the pilot starts the engines, the world,” considers Perry drives off the pull car and Jasin, CEO of Triton GSE, positions the aircraft for Inc. “Our goal is to add more take-off. products to our offering as we The entire ATS system is expand our customer base,” fully automatic, integrated adds Brian Piety, president of into the ground control PAGE Industries. system and run by ground control tower personnel. ATS RELOCATIONS is said to maximise safety by optimising airport taxiway TNA TO ASSEMBLE the best in flexibility, smart electrical aircraft tow traffic, reducing personnel IN THE US adaptability, practical features, system, making it much easier and equipment required in TNA Aviation Technologies, tow capacity and capability,” for pilots and ground crews,” and around flight operations, the exclusive American TNA suggests. says Turwitt. and controls all aircraft distributor for the aircraft “Customers have been “The TowFLEXX 120e HG movements during taxi and tugs known in Europe as asking for more affordable features a powerful electric gate operations. Flyer-Truck and TugMAXXE, and compact tow tug systems, motor and many capabilities is to begin assembling tugs in especially in the aircraft that deliver functionality PAGE GOES WITH the US. weight range of 10,000 to normally only found in bigger TRITON GSE TowFLEXX – which it 30,000lbs MTOW, and we’ve and more expensive tow tugs,” Triton GSE, Inc and PAGE describes as “the world’s most responded by introducing a he adds. Q Industries, Inc have inked a advanced remote operated global distribution agreement airplane tug product” – is to for the manufacture and sale be assembled in America. TCR’S GSE RENTAL SERVICES GAIN of select GSE. Within the “We are thrilled to launch MOMENTUM IN GERMANY multi-year framework of the our TowFLEXX® 2017 model TCR Germany is a special country for TCR, the business deal, each company will bring year product line that was having had a German shareholder until 2007 and to its respective markets the complemented with many especially because Deutsche Asset Management, together complementary products new systems and very with 3i infrastructure, acquired TCR last year. of the other. The deal will innovative advancements,” The TCR German affiliate has a strong presence in Düsseldorf where, in 2012, TCR Germany gained two major provide aviation customers says Michael Turwitt, contracts: the first related to a fleet conversion for Aviapartner, with access to a broad range co-owner and managing and the second was with the Düsseldorf Ground Handling company. This made TCR an important GSE rental provider on of ground support equipment partner of TNA Aviation Germany’s third-largest international airport. Since then, TCR capable of lifting and moving Technologies. has managed well over 550 units of equipment for the same baggage, it is noted by the “Our passion and customers and has introduced a running pooling concept for dollies and baggage carts. TCR is also present, with smaller two companies, a statement dedication to providing contracts, in Frankfurt and Cologne. adding: “By combining quality aircraft tugs is already Sascha Hommen, TCR’s country manager, is optimistic: extensive market knowledge, well known throughout the “We really have seen a change in attitude towards the GSE rental alternative during the last year. Among others, TCR superior manufacturing, general aviation industry. We invested in close to 100 new units for Acciona’s handling and broadened support are pleased to offer a wider start-up in Düsseldorf. capabilities with a variety range of aircraft tugs in 2017.” “Furthermore, we also inaugurated our workshop some of complementary ground In other TNA news, TNA 2km off the airport, to offer an even better service. We are now getting more and more requests for rental of equipment support products, the Aviation Technologies has and some contracts are under discussion. Although the Triton and PAGE agreement confirmed the North and airlines at German airports are predominantly handled by airport authorities which traditionally own their material (this will result in a more South American release of was the case in most European countries before rental was comprehensive product the TowFLEXX 120e HG, an option), our concept and reputation have really gained offering and support structure which it says is “the industry’s momentum,” Hommen says. Q for customers across the most advanced and versatile ’We really have seen a change in attitude globe.” electrical towbarless aircraft towards the GSE rental alternative “With PAGE as our tug in its class. during the last year” distribution partner, we “This product combines

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