June 2008 |
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The National Airport Minsk received a quality certificate from the certification agency Bureau
Veritas. The certificate is of the OHSAS 18001:2007 series on ‘Occupational Health
and Safety Assessment’. In April 2008, ‘Bureau Veritas Certification Ukraine’ conducted
a certification audit of Minsk Airport and confirmed that the occupational health and safety management
of the National Airport corresponds to international standards and helps control the dangerous production
factors and risks, prevent accidents and emergencies. This system considerably increases the airport’s
image in the global market of aviation services. |
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Air Traffic Control The Netherlands awarded Thales a contract to provide an integrated briefing system for pilots to be installed at its Amsterdam headquarters. The system will offer pilots Internet access to flight plans and briefing functionalities. |
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IER has introduced a comprehensive range of 2D barcode printers to support the air transportation industry's evolution to 2D BCBPs. The IER 400 and IER 560 are designed for checkin operations and cover the large scope of airline and airport needs from single feed up to four feeds. Both are multi-function and can print bag tags and boarding passes in various configurations. |
May 2008 |
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Thorn Airfield Lighting has been awarded projects in Algeria to supply four complete mobile
airfield ground lighting systems designed for the Army and for civil emergency or temporary
lighting. The mobile systems provide runway and taxiway lighting functions with remote control facilities
for fully ICAO- compliant airports. They include F18 transformer-lights, PAPI system, primary leads, an
electrical substation shelter, diesel generator set, and retractable lighting towers on road trailers. |
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New nominations to PROAVIA's Board of Trustees have restored the balance between airport and air traffic safety equipment manufacturers. ADP Ingénierie, ALSTEF, and IER have joined the PROAVIA Board for financial year 2008. The election of a new Executive Committee with Chairman Jacques Lafay (Steria) supported by Alexandre de St-Phalle (CS) as Vice-President, Fernando Ribeiro (Thorn Airfield Lighting) as Secretary and Patrick Lefevre (Thales) as Treasurer means that airport consultants and equipment manufacturers are now as well represented as those involved in air traffic safety. PROAVIA currently brings together 42 companies that provide products and services throughout the world. Their accumulated expertise makes them some of the leading companies in the world in their sector. |
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The latest reports issued by the American National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), state that Sagem Sécurité’s fingerprint recognition
algorithms have outpaced 19 other analyzed algorithms in terms of accuracy, interoperability
and speed.
Sagem Sécurité is the only company to meet the standards for use in federal programs such
as the U.S. Government’s PIV (Personal Identity Verification ) and TWIC (Transportation
Worker Identification Credential) programs, thus confirming their assets in the field of data
and personal security and their technological edge in identification solutions. |
April 2008 |
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Several French Companies member of PROAVIA exhibited at Passenger Terminal Expo held in Amsterdam April 15-17th, 2008: ADPi, Alstef, Caddie, Ciat, Hub télécom IER, Logan Teleflex and Tisys. |
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Alpha-Airport was selected by the Algerian National Civil Aviation Establishment, to supply 8 complete high intensity Airfield Lighting Systems for the main Algerian southern airports. Those systems include Runway, Approach and Taxiway Lights, CCR, Isolating Transformers and a Control and Monitoring System in Control Tower, equipped with “Sup‘Air Vision” software, designed by Alpha-Airport.
Alpha-Airport also won a major contract with the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority. It will provide complete Airfield Lighting System for Praslin airport and Guidance Signs plus Parking Floodlight equipment for Mahé airport. Moreover two Trailer mounted Portable Airfield Lighting Systems “BELUGA 03” will be delivered to be used at any Seychelles archipelago air strip. |
March 2008 |
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Thales was awarded a contract from FINAVIA, the Finnish Air Traffic Service
provider, for the delivery, installation and operational commissioning of its MAGS1 transponder
multilateration system at Helsinki Vantaa Airport. The contract will be
fully executed in 2008.
The MAGS surveillance system will provide high accuracy, high update rate surveillance for all
transponder equipped aircraft operating in Helsinki-Vantaa’s movement and apron areas. |
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Several French Companies member of PROAVIA exhibited at ATC Global exhibition held in Amsterdam March 11-13th, 2008: ADPi, CS Communication & Systèmes, Egis Avia, Thales, IER.
PROAVIA also visited the exhibition on March 11th
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Logan Teleflex has won a major contract worth more than USD 7.7 million to supply a
baggage-handling system for Anchorage International Airport in Alaska. The Logan Teleflex intelligent BHS has 2 conveyor lines from ramp level to baggage claims. The outbound
system measures 2550 ft and begins at 3 ticket counters. The 3 conveyors converge into two
lines and feed 4 EDS (explosive detection systems). A system control unit monitors baggage throughput and availability of the
EDS machines. This ensures a capability of 2000 bags per hour.
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IER has been selected to install twelve self-service check-in kiosks at Billund Airport in Denmark. The airport selected the new-generation IER 918 CUSS kiosk to offer self-check-in to its passengers. IER 918 takes advantage of emerging trends such as e-ticketing, 2D bar-coded boarding
passes, the ability to read e-passports, and to check-in airline passengers with or without bags. All the
kiosks will be up and running by the end of March 2008. In addition, Billund Airport has chosen the IER monitoring system to supervise by themselves their
kiosks operations.
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February 2008 |
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The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
(CAAS) and Thales signed the LORADS1 III contract for the supply of a new Air
Traffic Control system replacing the current LORADS II system supplied by Thales in
1995. Under the terms of this contract, valued at over 145 million Euros, Thales will design,
manufacture, supply, deliver, install, test and commission the next generation
EUROCAT system on a turnkey basis.
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January 2008 |
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Cairo International Airport awarded Sagem Securite a contract to provide its biometric control systems. Sagem Securite will supply the airport’s Terminal 3 with biometric border control gates based on biometric automatic fingerprint recognition technology.
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The third Runway at Beijing Capital International Airport has been put into operation following a
successful flight test acceptance of a new CAT III ILS provided by
Thales.
The Thales CAT III ILS is capable of safely guiding aircraft on automatic precision landing in very
low visibility conditions, and confirms
Thales leading position in China, with more than 300 Navigation systems installed in recent years.
Thales is the world-leading supplier of CAT III ILS, having previously supplied DVOR /DME
systems and ILS/DME, which are operational around China. |
