Airport News, "Air Transport World - Airports"

["Stephen Irwin" <stepheni@cwnet.com>]

October 1, 1999

Airports
Air Transport World


Edmonton Airports has selected Dufferin Construction Co. as general
contractor for a $17 million apron expansion program at Edmonton
International Airport. The work is part of the $131 million Phase 2 of the
Air Terminal Redevelopment project scheduled for completion by fall 2000. It
will increase the total apron area by 57%.

Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados will spend about $70
million over the next five years for renovations. A consortium headed by
Sypher-Mueller International, a Canadian airport consultancy firm, will
design the project and supervise construction.

Cape Town International Airport is expanding its cargo-handling capabilities
with a 24 million rand ($3.9 million), 11,000-sq.-m cargo facility, to be
completed in November.

British Airports Group has sent a delegation to Korea to discuss with
businesses and government officials Britain's role in the new Inchon
International Airport project. A number of British firms already have
obtained specialist contracts to supply know-how and products to the new
airport and BAG aims to secure further cooperation with Korean private firms
in related fields.

T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, R.I., will have a transit-oriented
development built next to it connecting the airport via people-mover to an
Amtrak intercity train and a commuter train. The $31 million project is
designed to accommodate the 212% growth in traffic that has occurred since
the arrival of Southwest Airlines in 1996.

DHL International will build a $34 million hub facility at Singapore's
Changi International Airport to handle expected growth. The 100,000sq.-ft.
hub will be able to handle more than 180,000 tons a year and process 18,500
shipments an hour.

Economic and political problems have combined to cut back an ambitious
upgrade of Phnom Penh's Pochentong Airport. producing
"lower-than-anticipated traffic [which] has affected our expansion plans,"
says an official from Societe Concessionaire de l'Aeroport, which won a
25-year construction and management contract in 1995. Two events in 1997,
the Asian financial crisis and a coup that allowed Cambodian Prime Minister
Hun Sen to consolidate his grip on power, severely damaged the airport along
with hopes of revitalizing the ravished country's economy. SCA plans to
upgrade the runway to handle 747s and to build a new passenger and cargo
terminal. Construction is scheduled to be completed by December 2001.

An ongoing controversy is clouding the future of Jorge Newbery Aeroparque in
downtown Buenos Aires. When the Argentine government decided to privatize
the country's top airports, it made clear that Aeroparque, which handles
mostly domestic flights, would be closed in 2005 and operations transferred
to Ezeiza Airport, Argentina's top international gateway. Aerolineas
Argentinas and Austral favor the shift but Lapa, Dinar and Southern Winds
have opposed it since the beginning. Most recently, the Aeropuertos
Argentina 2000 consortium, winner of the privatization bid for both Ezeiza
and Aeroparque, proposed to keep Jorge Newbery going through a $270 million
investment to upgrade facilities.

Services

CA One Services has been awarded a 10-year master concession contract for
New Orleans International Airport, where it has operated foodservice
facilities for the past 15 years.

CA One also has been awarded an extension to the food and beverage contract
at Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport. It has managed food and
beverage operations there since 1986 and is investing more than $8 million
to refurbish and construct facilities in the airport's four terminals.

China Airlines, TransAsia Airways and Far Eastern Air Transport have joined
to establish Kaohsiung Airport Catering Services, a flight kitchen that will
serve southern Taiwan. It will be housed in a three-- story, 5,342-sq.-m
building at the airport with operations due to begin in September. Capacity
is to start at 4,000 meals a day rising to 12,000.

A consortium of Ogden Corp., YVR Airport Services of Canada and Opesa of the
Dominican Republic has won a 20-year contract to operate concessions at four
airports: Las Americas in Santo Domingo, Gregorio Luperon in Puerto Plata,
Arroyo Barril in Samana and Maria Montez in Barahona. Investments to upgrade
facilities are estimated at more than $400 million.

Servisair has been awarded a three-year contract renewal from Cathay Pacific
to provide cargo-handling services at Manchester Airport. Servisair also has
received a contract to provide cargo handling for Finnair at Oslo Gardermoen
Airport.

Terminals

British Airways World Cargo has relocated and expanded its cargo facilities
at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The new facility, at the O'Hare
Express Center, adds 8,000 sq. ft., bringing total space to 46,000 sq. ft.

Qantas has opened its Sydney Domestic Terminal following a $A250 million
($165.5 million) redevelopment. The revamped terminal is six times the
original size and doubles the number of gates to 14, two of which are
747-capable. It also features a 2,400-sq.-m retail concourse with 11 shops.

Continental Airlines has started construction on its $1 billion Global
Gateway at Newark International Airport. The project will add a third
concourse to Terminal C with 12 new widebody gates, a baggage-handling
facility and a Presidents Club. Also in the works are a 150,000-sq, ft.
cargo facility and a widebody maintenance hangar. The Terminal C project
will add 600,000 sq. ft. to the existing 1-million-sq.-ft. terminal and
bring total gates to 56. Completion is scheduled for 2002.

Northwest Airlines has awarded BAE Automated Systems a $45.6 million
contract for a high-speed baggage conveyor system for the airline's new
mile-long Detroit Midfield Terminal. Northwest is planning to pull out of
the main terminal in favor of the new facility, of which it will have
exclusive use. The two-year project includes seven international and 11
domestic luggage claim units. Connecting conveyors will allow Northwest
customers to check their bags in the parking garage.

The Seychelles has chosen Singapore Airport Consortium as consultant for
developing a new international passenger terminal. The consortium, which
includes the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, will provide consultancy
services for the planning and design of the terminal building and ancillary
services at Seychelles International Airport.

Emirates has moved into the new departure terminal at Dubai International
Airport. The facility is part of a multibillion-dollar expansion being
undertaken by the Department of Civil Aviation. Among the terminal's
features are six passport control booths with 24 operating stations and 213
high-tech check-in desks, 42 of which are assigned to Emirates. "Wider
baggage and conveyer belts-the widest available in the market-will
facilitate faster movement of baggage," Emirates said.

A China Airlines-led consortium has submitted a bid for operating rights for
the Taipei and Kaohsiung air cargo terminals following their first stage of
privatization. Also in the consortium, which plans to develop the facilities
into modern warehousing centers, are Far Eastern Air Transport, UPS and
Everterminal. CAL holds 62% of the venture, which is capitalized at NT$2.5
billion ($77 million).

A private consortium will begin construction of a $500 million passenger
terminal at Manila International Airport, according to Philippine President
Joseph Estrada. Philippine International Air Terminals will build, operate
and maintain the facility, which is expected to have an annual capacity of
between 10 and 12 million passengers. Flughafen Frankfurt/Main, the German
government-owned firm that operates Frankfurt Airport, has an unspecified
equity interest in PIAT, which also has Singaporean, Philippine and Japanese
investors.

LUFTHANSA'S GlobeGround and Flughafen Frankfurt/Main AG have established
N*ICE Aircraft Services and Support to provide centralized aircraft deicing
services at Frankfurt Airport.

Terminal 3, due for completion in 2002, will replace the airport's first
terminal, which now handles 6 million passengers annually versus a capacity
of 4.5 million. Traffic at Manila is forecast to reach 9 million next year.

A newly completed terminal at Beijing International Airport will more than
double its passenger capacity, the official Xinhua news agency reports. It
will boost the airport's capacity to 35 million passengers and 190,000
aircraft movements annually.

Facilities

Hillsborough County Aviation Authority has approved a 25,000-- sq.-ft. cargo
facility at Tampa (Fla.) International Airport for Emery Worldwide, which
will lease it for 10 years.

Orlando International Airport will begin construction of a new air traffic
control tower next year. The 349-ft. tower will replace the current 230-ft.
tower. Construction costs are estimated at $14-20 million.

Equipment

InVision Technologies subsidiary Quantum Magnetics has received federal and
company R&D funds to accelerate development of weapons and explosive
detection devices.

It is using its own funding for "development and eventual commercialization"
of weapon-tracking technology that it said will provide "significant
enhancements" over traditional portal-style metal detectors. The technology
involves use of a three-sensor gradiometer to measure minute magnetic
variations caused by ferromagnetic objects at room temperature. An array of
concealed sensors and tracking software can locate and track in real time
the motion of magnetic objects such as guns and knives while discriminating
between weapons and harmless clut ter like keys. The sensors can follow the
movements of individuals carrying weapons throughout the facility under
surveillance.

Quantum Magnetics received $2 million in FAA funding to continue to advance
its proprietary quadrupole resonance technology. Of that, $800,000 is for
development of a hand-held, QR-based detection system that will use a
single-sided coil or wand to scan individuals, carry-on bags, electronic
equipment or cargo for the presence of explosives. A second grant for $1.2
million "is to advance QR technology in the areas that hold the promise of
significantly improving detection performance and throughput," the company
said. Tasks involve using QR "not only to detect but also to localize
threats in bags being screened."

InVision announced it has received $1.7 million in orders and
extended-maintenance agreements from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Airport
Authority Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Schiphol
purchased a CTX 550 DS explosive detection system and an upgrade kit for a
previously purchased CTX 5000 SP. AAHK purchased four CTX 5500 DS upgrade
kits while Kuala Lumpur signed maintenance agreements to cover six CTX 5000
systems.

Airports recently ordering Vivid Technologies explosive detection devices
include Bristol International, Prestwick International and Billund Airport
in Denmark.

Munich Airport has introduced high-performance sorting system to be used
solely for transfer baggage. The $12.7 million system is able to process
roughly 5,000 bags an hour.

Los Angeles International Airport has purchased the Galaxy Scientific Corp.
Drivers Enhanced Vision System for its aircraft rescue and firefighting
trucks. DEVS uses satellite navigation maps with GPS technology for
communicating with and guiding emergency response vehicles. The navigation
map automatically orients itself to the vehicle's position and direction and
has a position accuracy of 2 m.

Siemens' new Sidogs docking system has been installed at Nuremberg Airport.
Siemens said Sidogs is the first system worldwide to obtain aircraft docking
data from a video camera rather than from induction loops embedded in
taxiways or other emitting sensors.

Siemens also has received a three-year contract to modernize and extend
taxiway lighting at Stansted Airport. The contract includes maintenance and
gradual replacement over the next 15 years with F-Range lights. Minski II
International Airport has hired Siemens to upgrade its airfield lighting to
meet CAT-III and CAT-I requirements for Runways 31 and 13, respectively.

Global Ground Support LLC has introduced its new line of Wide Body Catering
Trucks, with launch customer Chelsea Catering purchasing 13. The catering
truck has a lift capacity of 10,000 lb. and a platform height of 19 ft.

Tronair unveiled a new line of solid-state 28VDC rectifiers. The units are
rated at 600 amps continuous with 2,000 peak amps available. They are
offered in 50 or 60 Hz versions for single or dual outlets.

Barringer Technologies has received an FAA contract valued at up to $9.5
million for its Ionscan trace explosives detectors, bringing total orders
for the detectors to $13.5 million. Barringer also announced an exclusive
license from Sandia National Laboratories to commercialize a patented
walkthrough chemical detection portal developed by Sandia under an FAA
contract.

Airports with bird habitat problems have two new products with which to
reduce bird populations.

Bird-X has introduced BirdXPeller PRO, a sonic device that can be programmed
to repel the specific type of bird infesting the airport. The system
produces species-specific distress cries and predator sounds, causing birds
"to become agitated and disoriented and flee for good," the company said.

DCV Inc. offers what it calls the world's first environmentally friendly
safe and effective bird repellent." Its Flight Control Bird Repellent is a
naturally occurring product that mixes with water for spray application but
does not dissolve so that it stays in the runway area for months regardless
of weather conditions. Birds that ingest the material "experience a harmless
irritation that is far more powerful than taste repellents," the company
said. Birds can detect the substance from a great distance and in very low
concentrations, keeping them away from the area.

Beijing International Airport has selected Allen Telecom Inc. to provide a
$2.1 million multistandard in-building analog/digital wireless signal
transmission system for its terminal building. Allen Telecom's Mikom
division will build a fiberoptic system to handle signals ranging from 138
to 1,800 MHz. These signals include paging, trunking, cellular (ETACS, GSM
China Telecom), GSM (China Unicom), CDMA and DCS 1800.

Partners & Thompson has begun marketing KS Airport Systems baggage carts,
including the new Airborne Mini-Cart, throughout the Americas. The carts are
already in service at airports throughout Europe and the Middle East. The
Mini-Cart is a small, thin unit designed to allow passengers who have
checked in to transport hand baggage through tight areas such as duty-free
and other retail shops. An add-on feature is being developed that turns the
top of the cart into a flat area, allowing business travelers to set up
laptop computers.

NICE Systems Ltd. of Ra'anana, Israel, announced that Polish Airports State
Enterprise (PPL) and Maldives Airports Authority have selected the NiceLog
digital voice recording system for two ATC installations.

PPL chose NiceLog for the new Warsaw ATC center. The system, which comprises
several hundred channels, will be supplied in the second half of this year.
Maldives Airports Authority in June acquired NiceLog for Male International
Airport. NiceLog is an advanced recording and archiving system distinguished
by open architecture and Commercial Off-the-Shelf hardware and software
modules.

NICE also offers the NiceFix direction-finding system. Used mainly as a
navigational aid for airports, NiceFix employs interferometer-based
technology that makes extensive use of advanced digital signal processing
and covers both VHF and UHF frequency ranges (100-400 MHz).

Mercator has landed a $6 million contract from Air Algerie for the supply
and implementation of its Mercator Airline Reservations System, whose
functions include flight reservations, booking management, schedules and
seat inventory control. The five-year contract calls for Air Algerie to be
hosted on the MARS system for three years, after which it has the option to
buy it or to continue the hosting arrangement.

Cologne/Bonn Airport has ordered a Lufthansa Systems Berlin ELWIS integrated
air cargo handling system for its CargoPort.

Flughafen Frankfurt/Main and Softlab Systemhouse have launched Baggage
Re-flight, a computerized system for automating the procedures used to
redirect passenger baggage onto new flights.

Government

FAA has awarded a $180 million contract to Raytheon Systems for the agency's
security equipment integration program. Under the five-year follow-on
contract, Raytheon will provide planning, design, engineering and management
support services required to test, integrate and install
government-furnished security equipment at 400 airports and facilities
throughout the US. Raytheon already has installed security equipment at 56
sites.

The Mexican government announced that four consortia are pre-qualified to
bid for the 14 airports that comprise the Pacific Group, the second to be
privatized. The Southeastern Group, privatized late last year, was anchored
by Cancun International. The Pacific Group is anchored by Guadalajara.

The first consortium comprises Constructoras ICA of Mexico, Aeroports de
Paris and Societe Generale de Entreprises of France. Grupo Empresarial of
Mexico and Aena Servicios Aeronauticos of Spain make up the second. The
third includes Aeroplazas de Mexico and Flughafen Frankfurt Main. Grupo
Mexico and YVR Airport Services of Canada head up the fourth. The winning
bidder is to be announced later this year.

People

HNTB Aviation, the aviation planning group of HNTB Corp., has appointed
Thomas A. Remus as VP of its aviation planning, engineering and design staff
serving northern California. Norman Witteveen, formerly deputy director of
Denver International Airport, has been named by HNTB Corp. as national
director of aviation quality assurance and corporate advisor.

John J. Driscoll has retired as executive director of Los Angeles World
Airports. He was responsible for administration, operation and development
of Los Angeles International Airport, Ontario International Airport,
Palmdale Regional Airport and Van Nuys Airport.

Worldwide Flight Services, the ground-services provider formerly known as
AMR Services, has appointed Mark Dunkerley as COO, a newposition. He
previously served as senior VP-Latin America/Caribbean for British Airways.

BAA will appoint Mike Hodgkinson to CEO upon the retirement of John Egan in
October. Hodgkinson was airports director.

Vivid Technologies has named Herbert Janisch president and COO. He was
president and CEO of Elin Energieanwendung, an electrical engineering and
manufacturing company in Vienna.

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