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Halifax International Airport - Nova Scotia
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As part of the mandate by the Canadian Air Transport Security Association (CATSA) all Canadian Airports are upgrading their baggage facilities to incorporate in line Hold Baggage Screening. This is the primary driver for this project at Halifax International Airport.
The Commuter system is the main departures baggage handling system for the Airport and provides baggage facilities for all Airlines operating at the Airport.
A significant factor on the choice of LoganTeleflex as the selected baggage partner was that they were able to use their extensive experience in HBS systems to design an optimum system solution under the Airports preferred design build approach. This solution has satisfied the functional needs of both HBS and normal baggage handling in a simplified space saving scheme.
Every part of the existing baggage handling system with the exception of the check-ins was removed. A new temporary system was installed which located baggage make up carousels on the apron behind the terminal building. This in effect completely cleared the baggage hall to permit construction works associated with extending the bag hall to take place without interference to ongoing operations. The new HBS system was then built and tested off line before being introduced in place of the temporary systems.
The HBS system uses two L3 Communication VIS108 machines for level 1 and their associated workstations for Level 2. Two Invision CTX2500 machines provide the level 3 and 4 functions whilst level 4 failures are handled outside the system.
The baggage system incorporates the normal bag conditioning functions prior to the level 1 X-ray and security tracking functions between Level 1 and Level 3. Cleared bags route to one of 2 inclined overlapping slat carousels for flight make up purposes. The system makes provision for transfer bag loading both prior to the HBS system and also for non screened transfer bags which directly feed the make up carousels. Redundancy is provided at different levels within the system and this approach is followed in the control system arrangement which is based on 2 Siemens S7 PLC systems. A Management Information System (MIS) provides maintenance and system management data. The system has been built using LoganTeleflex product and services and installed through local companies under contract to LoganTeleflex.
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