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Automated 100% Hold Baggage Screening is key to Blackpool's Refurbishment Programme
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Blackpool International Airport has upgraded its baggage handling with 100% HBS (Hold Baggage Screening) as part of the airport’s latest £2 million terminal refurbishment scheme.
City Hopper Airports Limited, owners and operators of Blackpool Airport, selected baggage system integrator, Logan Teleflex UK to design, manufacture and install a complete Departures system, with 100% HBS, to meet strict timescale and budget constraints.
Commenting on the new baggage system, Gary Hall, Managing Director of City Hopper Airports Limited, owners and operators of Blackpool Airport, said: “We are delighted with the Logan Teleflex baggage system and pleased that they were able to install and commission the system to meet our demanding timescale and budget.”
The system, which went live in February 2006, will feed off 13 two-stage check-in desks and will handle baggage at Level 1 & 2 and through to Level 3 screening. The Hold Baggage Screening system is controlled using an S7-400 PLC, while the conveyor functionality of the operation is based on the use of a single PLC with centralised Inputs/Outputs.
The conveyor system itself was built using the latest FAS manufactured baggage technology, including weigh and despatch conveyors, horizontal baggage make-up conveyors and the Model 571 belt and queue conveyor. Logan Teleflex UK products are built at the company’s automated production facility in Hull, to ensure standardised production and a high standard of reliability - a necessity, considering the conveyors form the backbone of Blackpool’s baggage handling system.
Alan Young, Business Development Manager for Logan Teleflex UK, said: “With the Blackpool project, we are delighted to help yet another regional airport make the transition to automated hold baggage screening at an important time in their development as a rapidly growing airport in the UK. Like many of the projects we undertake, Blackpool will be using equipment that is manufactured by ourselves.”
Blackpool International Airport’s transition to automated 100% Hold Baggage Screening is part of a wider project to further modernise the main terminal building, which was constructed in 1995. As well as behind-the-scenes modifications, the airport is opening a new large duty free area, an airside restaurant, landside coffee shop and newsagent, International currency exchange desk, long stay car park, and undertaking many other aesthetic improvements.
Furthermore, Blackpool is also opening two new departure gates in their improvement programme. The airport already provides flights to several British and European destinations. With the latest up-to-date, baggage handling and screening system in place, the airport’s management are seeking to offer flights to more destinations.
In addition to existing flights to Murcia, Alicante, Malaga, Palma, Gerona and Belfast City Hopper Airports Limited has just signed a deal with jet2.com, to operate flights to Tenerife from October 2006.
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Editor’s Note:
Sales – please contact:
Dave Reynolds, Logan Teleflex (UK) Ltd. on telephone +44 (0) 1482 785677
Or, e-mail marketing@loganteleflex.com
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For press enquiries: please contact Gary Lillistone, Bridge PR Ltd. on tel: 024 76553333 or e-mail: garyl@bridgepr.co.uk
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