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HANDLING
a regular basis," adds Smith.
"Typically, it requires everybody to be a
little more diligent when it comes to keeping
things clean, because now you can see a lot
more," Bramlett agrees. "If you're putting in a
glass bridge to improve passenger experience,
it's going to take some effort to make sure that
experience stays top-notch. You'd even think
that along the ramp. If your passengers are
able to now walk outside that building face
and look down, maybe underneath some
areas that are typically covered and not visible,
now those areas have to have equal scrutiny
to make sure that nothing is an eyesore. Or
you're counter-productive in your efforts to
provide a glass bridge."
In Atlanta, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is
currently underway with what is considered
the largest ground support project in U.S.
history - the renovation of 116 PBBs. At the
time of writing, 97 of the bridges have been
replaced in what airport assistant director
of project management Todd McClendon
describes as a quality of life update.
"The bridges have a useful life and when
they start getting close to the end of their useful life, then you start making plans to replace
them. It truly is that simple and these get a
lot of use," says McClendon as to what led to
the project.
The bridges, also being installed by the
Aero Group, are getting much needed upgrades
to their infrastructure and technology.
"We kind of laugh in the office as some of
the bridges we're taking out were made well
before cell phones and well before pagers.
Just the new technology that we're installing
is a world of difference than what they had
before," Grantham says.
"Aero has been in Atlanta for a very long
time. We were founded here and we are headquarterd here. We've been working at the
Atlanta airport since we were first founded,"
adds Bramlett. "We've had the opportunity,
in one way or another, to plan and work at
every one of these gates before this project
happened. Being very familiar with the equipment, when this project kicked off we had
the opportunity to bring any ideas forward
for stakeholder discussion and consideration;
to determine exactly what kind of passenger
boarding bridge finishes they wanted, specs
they wanted, if there's any kind of changes
they wanted with aircraft parking. We were
able to put a whole menu in front of them and
let them decide what they did or did not want
to budget for."
And where Paine Field's bridges focus on
aesthetics for a pleasing passenger experience,
Hartsfield-Jackson's bridges renovations are
more focused on the wants and needs of the
airport's air carriers - namely technology and
safety features.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ground Support Worldwide
Business Buzz
Industry Expert Column – Ground Handling
GSE Through the Lens of FBOs
Securing Baggage Tractors with Bluetooth
inter airport Europe 2019 Preview
Eastern European Growth Benefits GHSPs
Not Your Parents' Boarding Bridge
Information is Power
JBT's Developments for Deicing
Product Hangar
Editor's Note
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Ground Support Worldwide - Business Buzz
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Ground Support Worldwide - Industry Expert Column – Ground Handling
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