The baggage collection hall has long been a bottleneck, with passengers jostling to be at the front of the carousel crowds and the first to retrieve their luggage. However, coronavirus has signaled an end to travelers rubbing shoulders with one another, and the baggage hall is now subject to the same social distancing rules as the rest of the airport.
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Tara Craig

Guest blogger: Journalist and editor

Airports have always wanted to grow the number of aircraft movement and flights to meet increasing airline and passenger demands. While Resource Management Systems (RMS) can plan and optimize resource utilization, these deployments can be complex. Moving from an on-premise setup to the cloud provides quick, easy and cost-effective access to resource management, in a matter of days. It’s just what airports need in these times of uncertainty.
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Andy Quilliam

Head of Project Delivery

Airport Council International’s most recent economic report shows a “58.4% reduction in passengers as compared to 2019” and a “60% reduction in revenues”, resulting in “an unprecedented $104.5 billion reduction in revenue for 2020”. Though some airports claim that sales per passenger “went through the roof” during the pandemic, it cannot save airports from the devastating effect of Covid-19. Airports must find ways to optimize their rigid cost base, to introduce more agile processes and generate new revenue streams.
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Ilya Burkin

Business Development Director, Apron Solutions

The year 2020 began like any other. For most of us in aviation, the conversation focused on the challenges around airport capacity, sustainability, compliance, and safety. Then the pandemic struck. As the year draws to a close, we know that the impact of COVID-19 will be felt for a number of years. The discussion is now centered on how agility can aid recovery.

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Neil Hughes

Chief Technology Officer

With a good Resource Management System (RMS), an airport can optimize the use of, and have situation awareness of its assets such as aircraft parking positions, passenger boarding gates and baggage reclaim carousels and maximize their utilization according to the KPIs it thinks are most important. The complexities of deploying RMS can however deter many small and medium-sized airports. What if there was a better alternative?

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Jeremy Gilbert

Solutions Architect at ADB SAFEGATE Airport Systems | AODB/RMS/FIDS Product Owner

Automation and data analysis applied to flight and resource planning can empower small and medium airports to leverage proportionate benefits and returns. It will require a shift in the way small and medium airports manage and allocate flight planning and resources, but will ultimately generate more returns and cost savings, and allow both airports and airlines to enhance the passenger experience. Continue reading

ADB SAFEGATE Reporter

When COVID-19 struck, air travel almost came to a halt. Countries had to act swiftly and decisively. Strict national lockdowns and stringent travel restrictions combined with the adoption of innovative technologies such as contactless travel helped curb the spread of the pandemic across the world. But many questions linger.
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Ilya Burkin

Business Development Director, Apron Solutions

The past decade has seen great, rapid innovation and leaps forward in the airport industry which is sometimes described as slow-moving compared to other sectors of the economy. Despite the great challenges caused by the COVID -19 crisis, some opportunities arise and leave us no choice but to accelerate innovation and focus on what is essential to our business and our industry to get us to the other side and help us all to adapt to a new normal. And now is the time to innovate beyond technology, but transform our commercial models and how we pay for technology. Continue reading

Sébastien Jodeau

Vice President Airport & Tower systems at ADB SAFEGATE

Airports around the world are struggling to build passenger confidence in flying amid global Covid-19 pandemic. New measures, initiative and directives are implemented on a daily basis to make sure that passengers as well as airport and airlines personnel are safe. It is fascinating how much new ideas and technologies emerged within last 6 month affecting every single step of passenger journey. However there are still a space for improvement. In ADB SAFEGATE we developed a solution to avoid crowding around baggage carousels. Continue reading

Ilya Burkin

Business Development Director, Apron Solutions

AIRPORT SYSTEMS.  Accurate data, in one place, is vital to the ability to plan, react and manage growth at an airport. Resource Management Xpress is a cloud-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) solution offering a simpler way to tackle the complexities of airport resource allocation and flight scheduling at small and mid-sized airports. By increasing operational efficiency, the airport and its airline partners can maximize capacity, improve the passenger experience and enjoy significant cost and time savings through fewer delays or disruptions.

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