December 2004 |
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 PROAVIA attended the 14th ACI AFRICA/ASIA Annual Assembly, Congress and Exhibition from November 27th to December 2nd 2004 with companies ALSTEF, THORN AIRFIELD LIGHTING, IER, SAGEM and ALPHA CIM.
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ADP Télécom, the telecom operator of the airport world, has announced the implementation and operation of a high-speed wireless network compatible with the Wi-Fi standard at Lille airport.
Bolstered by its experience, ADP Télécom, a subsidiary of Aéroports de Paris, has developed unique expertise in deploying comprehensive solutions based on the Wi-Fi technology in response to the requirements and specific features of complex hotspots, particularly true of airports.
"Lille airport is keen to provide a range of services corresponding as closely as possible to the needs expressed by passengers. In this respect, Lille airport is aiming to improve mobility for business travellers in the Nord Pas de Calais and Belgian border regions: the deployment of a Wi-Fi hotspot at Lille airport meets the requirements of passengers in this particular area," says Alain Berquez, director of Lille airport.
This hotspot also provides wireless Internet access for the airport's employees and professionals based at the complex.
The network is configured to guarantee coverage for the whole passenger terminal, encompassing the public hall, the bar, the dining areas and boarding halls, as well as the work spaces and meeting rooms in the Business Centre.
The package on offer for the general public will include a free information portal and high-speed Internet services. Passengers will also be able to log in via roaming agreements with the main companies in the market.
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November 2004 |
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* THALES achieves second major milestone for the Chinese ATM system. Thales has successfully completed the Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) for the Shanghai air traffic control centre. This is the second of the three centres to be delivered under the NESACC (North, East and Southern Area Control Centres for China) contracts, of around 100 million euros, awarded to Thales by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) in 2001. The first SAT under the NESACC programme took place in May for the Beijing air traffic management system.
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* SOFREAVIA provides the Taiwan Civil Aviation Authority with ATN routers and low-level ATN protocol stack of the end-system for AMHS services as part of the ICAO CNS/ATM regional programme for the Asia Pacific Region. The operational im plementation is to be completed by 2005. The ATS Message Handling System (AMHS) is a new technology aiming at replacing the current AFTN (Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network) communication service between ATC centres. |
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THALES - Asecna, the agency for the safety of aerial navigation in Africa and Madagascar, awarded Thales a contract for the supply of 9 en-route navigation systems and 3 distance measuring equipment systems to airports of ASECNA member countries. |
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* THALES - Ilmailulaitos, the Finnish Civil Aviation Authority, implemented the Thales EUROCAT system at the Tampere control centre and 17 other remote airport towers. The systems have been implemented as part of the Finnish Air Traffic Management Integration programme for Southern Finland.
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October 2004 |
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* CEGELEC has been awarded the contract for all the electrical and computer installations in the new terminal at Houari Boumediene International Airport in Algiers. This contract worth about EUR 20 million covers the engineering, supply, installation and setting up of all the electrical, computer and airport security equipment in the terminal, which will open to the public in January 2006. Cegelec has 20 months to implement all these solutions, as the Algerian airport authority intends to transfer all activities from the old terminal to the new one at the start of 2006. |
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* COTEP, a member of the French ACECOR group, has developed ARES.Net, its brand new Display Server with extended multimedia capabilities. Installation is in progress at Prague Airport/Czech Republic.
COTEP has been selected by Aéroports de Paris for the supply of Intelligent Display Monitors with technology CRT and TFT. The company has also supplied and installed displays at Djerba Airport/Tunisia (FIDS), Siem Reap Airport/Cambodia (FIDS), and 40 Intelligent Plasma Monitors for Hall 0 of Toulouse Airport/France.
ACECOR also provides complete operational information management systems for airport resources. Its systems are currently in use at more than 50 airports in over 20 countries.
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September 2004 |
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* STERIA implements the "ATOM" data transfer system, which is part of its ManagAirport solution, at Lyon Saint Exupéry Airport. This system will enable automatic data exchange between Air France and the airport. It will be up and running in October at Air France's second largest hub (after Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris) and for the first time ever in a French airport. Steria's ManagAirport solution already allows data exchange with external partners and systems such as the French Civil Aviation Authority, Sita network, Cohor and even SwissAir for Basel-Mulhouse Airport.
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August 2004 |
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THALES ATM - Agency for the Safety of Aerial Navigation in Africa and Madagascar awarded Thales a EUR20 million contract for the supply of four air traffic management systems. The systems will be installed at Dakar (Senegal), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Brazzaville (Congo) and Niamey (Niger). The systems are expected to be operational by December 2005.
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July 2004 |
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* The 2004/2005 edition of 'Guide des Aéroports Français' has been published by UCCEGA, the association of French airports. On almost 360 pages, the guide provides exhaustive information on 190 airports managed by the 115 UCCEGA members. The handy guide is sold by Iénair at EUR 18 plus postage. Individual airport listings follow a standard format with sections on management, aviation use, technical characteristics, activities, and available services for each airport. |
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* THALES ATM - Iranian Airport Company awarded a contract to Thales to supply four advanced air traffic management systems for the main regional airports in the country. The new systems will provide increased capacity and smoother processing of the growing air traffic in the Iranian airspace. |
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* SAGEM has been selected to be the strategic partner in the further development of SmartGate. Based on face recognition biometric technology (a Cognitec Systems GmbH software), the SmartGate trial will provide simple and secure processing of selected flight crews and passengers at a number of Australian airports. SmartGate is leading the world in the field of border control. It will be one of the first to use biometric data in passports, enhancing the facilitation of passengers and strengthening border control. |
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* THALES ATM - AEROTHAI and Thales signed a contract for the provision of an advanced and integrated air traffic management and surveillance system, SATCONS, for the New Bangkok International Airport. The system project consists of installation of equipment and construction of primary, secondary and surface movement radar towers. |
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* TLD - Three TLD TPX-100E electric towbarless tractors designed to push back most commuter aircraft, narrowbody and some larger aircraft up to 100 tonnes are now in operation by Air France at Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport . Their AC/DC technology is unique in this range of tractors, as it increases driving comfort, offers more reliability, and reduces operating costs. |
June 2004 |
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 * PROAVIA attended the 14 th ACI EUROPE Annual Assembly, Congress and Exhibition from 9 th to 11 th of June 2004.
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* PROVIA was exhibiting at Dubai 'Airport Build & Supply Exhibition' from June 7th to 9th. Member companies attending the show were Thorn, ADPi, Sagem, IER, Caddie.
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* THALES has successfully completed the Site Acceptance Tests for the Beijing air traffic control centre. Beijing is the first of the three centres (Shanghai and Guangzhou) to be delivered under the NESACC (North, East and Southern Area Control Centres for China) contract, of around 100 million euros, awarded to Thales by the Civil Aviation Administration of China in 2001.
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* SAGEM - Five airports in the UK (Manchester, Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Birmingham) will trial iris scanners from mid-2005, as part of Immigration Office plans to boost airport immigration efficiency and security. The UK Government has signed a five-year contract with Sagem SA to provide the system.
* SAGEM - Aeroports de Paris commenced a trial fingerprint identification system for airport and airline staff at Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. The system, provided by Sagem SA , may eventually be offered to frequent travellers to reduce delays.
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May 2004 |
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* PROAVIA attended the 26th International Conference and Exhibition of Airport Technique & Equipment in Moscow from May 25 to 27. The French Pavillion was organized by Ubifrance.
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* THORN AIRFIELD LIGHTING - New Airfield Lighting for the A380 at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport. A massive renovation of runway 2 is planned this summer. The works include enlargement and stabilization of runway and complete renovation of CAT.II airfield lighting. The runway will be used in 2005 for the flight tests of the A380. THORN provides its new INL-REO lights. This runway edge inset light, conform to ICAO, IEC and FAA specifications, includes both high intensity bi-directional beams and low intensity omni-directional beam, and reproduces the photometric performances of the traditional elevated runway edge lights.
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April 2004
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PROAVIA - At the occasion of FIDAE Airshow in Santiago in Chile, Marie CARRU, Proavia General Delegate, was in Argentina, Brazil and Chile where she met local airport authorities. |
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* ALSTEF - Extension of the original baggage system in the main terminal of Istanbul's Atatürk International Airportpreviously created by ALSTEF entails 58 extra check-in desks, two new departure lines with inductions to the sorter and back-up carousels, and three new arrival lines. These are adding a further 1.1 km km. Maximum capacity of the modified system will be about 14 000 bags per hour in either direction. |
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* STERIA - During the coming months, all terminals and the taxi feeder park on London's Heathrow Airport will be equipped with Nedap's vehicle identification system. The complete taxi management system consists of the vehicle identification system, integrated into the central management system, to provide all the necessary information to regulate the taxi flow on the airport. The central taxi management system is to be provided by Nedap's partner Steria, a leading service provider with considerable expertise and knowledge in IT. |
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* THALES ATM - The Dominican Republic's civil aviation services provider Corporación Aeroportuaria Del Este S.A. has awarded Thales ATM a turnkey contract worth a USD 8 million for the supply of an air traffic management system at Punta Cana, the most highly visited Caribbean destination. The system comprises a radar station equipped with a STAR 2000 S-band solid-state approach primary radar co-mounted with a monopulse secondary surveillance radar RSM 970 S (Mode S capability) and an ATC centre. |
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* FB TECHNOLOGY will supply in June one PAC System and one PAC Laboratory (Photometric Airfield Calibration) at Sallonica Airport in Greece. |
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* SOFREAVIA - Implementation of SCANSI M 2 simulation software has been successfully performed in the new training centre of the French Civil Aviation School (ENAC). SCANSIM 2 family of products is a package of ATC simulators addressing all ATC training courses which have been developed by SIMULAVIA (GIE owned by Sofréavia, OKTAL and SEEE-IS) except for radar control components developed by OKTAL and Sofréavia exclusively. In addition, Sofréavia has commercialized and implemented SCANSIM 2 software in Qatar, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Senegal, and South Africa. |
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* THORN AIRFIELD LIGHTING - The planned extension of Dubai International Airport requires, in addition to the new terminals and aprons, new taxiways and the associated Ground Movement Control System. For that purpose, THORN has been selected as supplier of the Airfield Lighting fittings for the on-going extension. A renovation of more than 8000 fittings is planned for the next two years and already one third has been delivered. As the airport was already equipped with IN-TO fittings proven to be very efficient, DCA has selected in the same range of product the IN-TT and IN-SB fittings.
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March 2004 |
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* PROAVIA opened its office in Beijing with a chinese Engineer working on promoting 5 companies towards Chinese airports and civil aviation authorities. |
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* ALSTEF - Aéroports de Paris has placed an order with ALSTEF for the installation of the baggage handling system at Paris-Orly's West Hall 4. The system consists of ten check-in desks, a conveyor network including 2 EDS with redundancy, a sortation carrousel, and an automation and supervision system.
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* THALES ATM - Airservices Australia has awarded a contract to Thales ATM for the provision of 57 AS 680 ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast) Ground Stations, to be located at 28 sites. The nationwide programme, to provide ADS-B coverage in Australian Upper Airspace, will complement the existing enroute and terminal radar coverage in Australia and is the first wide scale implementation of ADS-B to be undertaken by an Air Navigation Service Provider. |
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* TLD EUROPE - The first A380 towbarless tractor ever was delivered by TLD in March 2004. The TPX 500 S is specially designed for handling the A380; it can perform push-back operations, inter-gate and shortdistance maintenance towing on medium and widebody aircraft (including, but not limited to B.767, A300, A330, A340 and the new A340-600, B.777-200/300, B.747-100 to 400). |
February 2004 |
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PROAVIA attended « Passenger Terminal Expo » in Geneva with several Member companies, Steria, Stratime Cappello, Def, Schneider Electric, Cegelec, Caddie. |
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* PROAVIA - Marie CARRU, General Delegate, was in Ghana and Nigeria to meet local airport authorities and know more about airport projects in Lagos, Port Harcourt. |
January 2004 |
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* THORN launched the 'Champion', a new asymmetrical floodlight. This IP66 floodlight projector is equipped with an adjustable aluminium reflector authorizing the horizontal installation in any case and offers a full cut-off at 80 degrees. This characteristic is essential for the apron floodlight installed on airports. Billund Airport (Denmark) is the first airport successfully equipped with this new floodlight Champion.
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