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Jbt Acquires Wales-Based Amss ` Cape Town Airport Invests in Growth Introducing a New EXPLORING GSE, AIRFIELD EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE | WWW.AIRSIDEINT.COM AUTUMN 2017 #AIRSIDEINT RECENT DEVELOPMENTSTUGS & TRACTORS DRIVEN BY DEMAND JBT ACQUIRES WALES-BASED AMSS ` CAPE TOWN AIRPORT INVESTS IN GROWTH INTRODUCING A NEW IN GSE PERFORMANCE PAGE offers a complete range of GSE products that are EXCEPTIONAL and DISTINCTIVE to propel you into the future. 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Please come see us at the Inter Airport Europe Show 10th - 13th October 2017 | Stop by Hall A6 - Booth #775 JAMES SHERIDAN EDITOR’S NOTE | CONTENTS Chairman [email protected] All part of the service 2 PARVEEN RAJA Anticipating demand 8 Publisher [email protected] JBT snaps up AMSS 14 Multiple priorities 18 IAN TALBOT Ramping up the power 24 Sales Manager [email protected] Abbey International moves for Sovam 29 Getting up close: docking systems and MRO 34 TOM WILLIS South Pier opens for business 40 Journalist Measuring passenger flows to improve efficiency 42 [email protected] Electric GSE supports move to greener airport environments 46 YASMIN LYDON Buyer’s Assessment (handling at LGW) 48 Events Coordinator Buyer’s Assessment (snow clearance) 50 [email protected] dnata Singapore opens new GSE maintenance facility 52 SHOBHANA PATEL Quality and innovation 54 Head of Finance Runway development at Cape Town International 58 [email protected] TCR strengthens in Italy 62 Looking forward 64 SHELDON PINK Creative Director Carbon War Room looks to sustainable fuel future 67 [email protected] Preparing for inter airport 70 Safran looks to boost ETS development with Chinese MoU 74 SOHAIL AHMAD TIPS-top 78 Conference Sales [email protected] Safety training: what the industry needs to know 80 Collection and drainage 82 Carlyle Group to take over at ADB Safegate 84 An industry first 86 Building on success 90 Providing perimeter protection 92 Address changes and subscription A year of celebration 94 orders to: [email protected] ISSN 2054-8958 Drone detection: keeping airspace safe 95 elcome to the Autumn 2017 issue of Airside International, a PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY bumper issue for the forthcoming inter airport in Munich this EVA International Media Ltd October. This issue of the magazine covers a range of topics even Boswell Cottage, 19 South End wider than normal, with features on subjects as diverse as tugs and Croydon, London, CR0 1BE, UK W tractors, aircraft de-icing, ground power provision, MRO and on- Tel: + 44 (0) 20 8253 4000 Fax: + 44 (0) 20 8603 7369 airport fuelling technology. m{x{PD{wDy ©9wz{ Interviews with GSE suppliers, GSE operators in the form of ground handling agents, airport authorities and various other airport service PRINTED BY providers add to the mix, while we also include two Buyer’s Assessments The MANSON Group Limited St Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 6PZ looking at the value of particular manufacturers’ GSE to their users. DISTRIBUTED BY: Air Business We hope you enjoy the issue, and see you in Munich EVA INTERNATIONAL MEDIA LTD in October. PUBLISHERS & EVENTS SPECIALISTS Issue 39 © 2017 | www.airsideint.com Content may not be reproduced in any format without written permission from EVA International Media Ltd MIKE BRYANT | EDITOR Cover image: Frank Peters/Shutterstock [email protected] AUTUMN 2017 | AIRSIDEINT.COM 1 FEATURE | AIRCRAFT DE-ICING All part of the service Eff ective aircraft de-icing is just one of the range of procedures that must be carried out as part of an airport’s winter operations set-up. It’s a major eff ort at many gateways, but one that must be made at any airport that can suff er even fairly moderate winter weather if aircraft are to keep fl ying safely and to schedule or the carriers using those airports that can be affected Luton), but also elsewhere in Europe, such as at Budapest and by harsh winter weather, it’s all about getting their Krakow, on the construction and testing of de-icing pads. aircraft away on schedule as far as is possible and thus And that trend is pronounced: six years ago, just five of the F avoiding costly cancellations or delays – with all the European airports to which easyJet flew had remote de-icing attendant passenger disgruntlement (and demands pads; now 22 of its European stations have them. Belgrade, for their money back), not to mention aircraft and crews Sofia and Pristina were added to the list of airports employing improperly positioned as the result of a disrupted schedule. de-icing pads over the last winter season. For one airline – one of the world’s biggest low-cost Looking back, Carter recalls the events that led to a change carriers (LCCs) – the choice between de-icing on-stand in policy at easyJet. In 2011, following a particularly harsh and on a remote pad is an easy one. Ernie Carter, winter winter in the UK, the carrier decided to improve its winter operations manager for London Luton-headquartered easyJet, operational performance. With this objective in mind, a says that it is really a “no-brainer” when it comes to that winter operations manager – Carter – was employed by particular choice. Remote de-icing pads can be the difference easyJet to focus on operational performance. between airports closing or remaining open to flying in The winter operations manager was given a key objective, challenging icing conditions, he says. and that was to move the UK’s de-icing industry into the 21st Carter, who is responsible for the airline’s winter Century. Three related initiatives were put in place, which operations at a total of 94 gateways, has plenty of experience were as follows: on which to base his judgement. easyJet has played a major t 5PTQSBZBMMBJSDSBęJOPOFQMBDF JF BUSFNPUFEFJDJOHQBET role in working with various airports, particularly in the UK t 5PTBGFMZTQSBZMFTTBJSDSBGUEFJDJOHGMVJE "%' (at London Stansted, Liverpool and Edinburgh as well as at t 5PSFDMBJNBOESFDZDMFTQFOU"%' De-icing at Memphis Airport 2 AIRSIDE INTERNATIONAL | AUTUMN 2017 AIRCRAFT DE-ICING | FEATURE Memphis invests in de-icing pad It’s not only in Europe that airports initial construction of supporting are investing in specialised de-icing infrastructure – including a bridge pads. At the Tennessee, US gateway that must be built over a public road. of Memphis International, the airport According to the airport’s vice president operator has secured a US$22.5 of operations, Terry Blue, who spoke to million grant from the US Department Airside International this summer, the of Transportation for the construction facility is expected to be completed by of a 345,000 square metre de-icing 2021. pad. The twin de-icing pad area will take The announcement was made by a in 12 bays large enough for aircraft as local congressman at the end of May big as a B747 or one of the many B777 this year. The grant forms part of the freighters operated by what is by far the US Federal Aviation Administration’s airport’s biggest cargo carrier customer, Airport Improvement Program (AIP), express services provider FedEx. It will which provides grants to public be equipped with both a glycol supply agencies — and, in some cases, to and a glycol collection system. private owners and entities — for the The facility will allow the planning and development of public- centralisation of de-icing processes use airports. The $22.5 million will go Terry Blue that are currently carried out either some way to financing a major project on stand (for passenger aircraft) or that is currently budgeted at $126 in two remote locations. It is to be million (the balance of funds may come from sources such as conveniently located between the gateway’s central and west further grants, debt in the form of airport revenue bonds and runways, typically used in times of inclement weather. normal operating revenue streams such as landing fees). The twin-pad facility will “help us to improve on what we The project to build what is officially called the already do well”, says Blue, who points to the benefits lying ‘Consolidated De-icing Facility’ will be executed in a number in the three main areas of safety, speed and efficiency, and of phases, the first of which will see a tender go out for environmental stewardship. Q THE PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT IN AIRPORT SNOW CLEARING TV 1000 … Performance Line RS 400 RSC 250 www.overaasen.no Futuristic Norwegian Snow How Tomorrow’s solutions – built on experience ØVERAASEN AS I Roald Amundsens veg 1 I NO-2816 Gjøvik I Tel +47 61 14 60 00 AUTUMN 2017 | AIRSIDEINT.COM 3 FEATURE | AIRCRAFT DE-ICING HuntsmanClariant merger (ATC) authorities and de-icing service providers the pad de- icing infrastructure and systems at Gatwick. said to be ‘on track’ The procedures associated with pads must be easy to stand up and stand down as the weather dictates, Carter explains, and they mustn’t be overly expensive to set up. Preferably, At the end of July, a statement from Clariant – a chemicals manufacturing giant, one of whose many business branches they will be of the ‘drive-through’ variety, speeding up the de- relates to aircraft and runway de-icing – announced that its icing process and – it goes without saying – they must ensure merger with Huntsman Corporation – fi rst announced in May – was “on track”.
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