Airport Integration of Operational Systems, Passenger Processing & Baggage Systems

Company Airport Systems – ADB Safegate
Date 27.01.2014

Ultra Electronics Airport Systems

(“Ultra”)

 

Ultra renews and expands UltraTrak Baggage Management System in South Africa

 

Ultra Electronics’ Airport Systems business has recently upgraded its successful UltraTrak Baggage Management System hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa, following a 5 year renewal earlier in the year. The renewal until 2018 guarantees enhanced airline security and improved business performance through UltraTrak’s powerful reconciliation, tracking and reporting capabilities.

UltraTrak has been used in South Africa since 2008; originally deployed in Johannesburg, with hosted operations via WAN at Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth airports. The operational efficiency benefits it delivered drove expansion of the system into 3 further airports; Bloemfontein, George and East London.  Handlers have commented on the value of the UltraTrak system, describing it as “fantastic”, and a “very successful implementation and a benefit to the airline community”.

The UltraTrak system passed the ultimate resilience test during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™, which included the single busiest day of operations in the history of Johannesburg airport, on which it performed flawlessly.

Stephen Smith, National Operations Manager for customer ACS, said: “The Ultra system has consistently delivered significant benefits to the airline community in South Africa. We’d like to express our gratitude to the team both in the UK and locally in South Africa, for their preparation, dedication, rigorous testing and hard work in executing this project; always done with the customer’s best interest in mind. Their contribution plays a huge role in allowing us to exploit UltraTrak to its full potential.”

UltraTrak’s multi-site capabilities enable airlines and handlers at any location to view the entire journey of a bag, from check-in at satellite airports to departure from the hub. This improved information flow lets ground handlers and airlines quickly identify mishandled bags, and allows queries on inbound bags to be investigated and often resolved before the passenger arrives at the airport. The result is an improvement to the service offered to customers by the airlines; all based on standard IATA messaging fed into the central host. The improved flow of information also enhances bag room efficiency, especially close to push back, by reducing the number of rejected scans experienced by baggage handlers; reducing push back delays for airlines.

UltraTrak is used at over 50 airports across five continents, handling around 200M bags per year.

UltraTrak is a crucial part of the baggage handling process for any airport or airline. It provides class-leading segregation, reconciliation, tracking, security and reporting capabilities; enhancing their operational efficiency and improving the passenger experience.

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Enquiries:

Shaun Penton, Product Manager, Airline Systems  shaun.penton@ultra-as.com

Sébastien Jodeau, Global Strategy and Marketing Director sebastien.jodeau@ultra-as.com

www.ultra-electronics.com

 

Further information about Ultra:

 

Ultra Electronics is an internationally successful defence, security, transport and energy company with a long, consistent track record of development and growth. The Group manages a portfolio of specialist capabilities generating innovative solutions to customer needs. Ultra applies electronic and software technologies in demanding and critical environments ranging from military applications, through safety-critical devices in aircraft, to nuclear controls and sensor measurement. These capabilities have seen the Group’s highly differentiated products contributing to a large number of platforms and programmes.

 

Ultra has world-leading positions in many of its specialist capabilities and, as an independent, non-threatening partner, is able to support all of the main prime contractors in its sectors.  As a result of such positioning, Ultra’s systems, equipment or services are often mission or safety-critical to the successful operation of the platform to which they contribute. In turn, this mission-criticality secures Ultra’s positions for the long term which underpins the superior financial performance of the Group.

 

Ultra offers support to its customers through the design, delivery and support phases of a programme. Ultra businesses have a high degree of operational autonomy where the local management teams are empowered to devise and implement competitive strategies that reflect their expertise in their specific niches. The Group has a small head office and executive team that provide to the individual businesses the same agile, responsive support that they provide to customers as well as formulating Ultra’s overarching, corporate strategy.

 

Across the Group’s three divisions, the major market sectors in which Ultra operates are:

 

Defence: Ultra supplies advanced electronic and electrical systems and equipment to coalition defence forces around the world. The Group innovates to provide battle-winning, specialist capabilities that are tailored to the customer’s need and environment. Ultra has world-class capabilities in sonar systems, command & control, platform electrics, surveillance systems and network communications solutions.

 

Security: Ultra provides highly differentiated systems and capabilities to the broad security, intelligence and cyber market. Ultra has highly specialised capabilities in secure communications, networks and cryptographic equipment, key management systems and surveillance systems and intelligence gathering systems.

 

Transport: Ultra provides specialist software, systems and equipment for use in mass passenger transport systems. This includes high integrity real-time controls for civil aircraft, advanced IT solutions for modern airports and trackside power equipment for transit rail systems.

 

Energy: Ultra has a range of safety critical sensors and controls used in existing and new build nuclear reactors. The Group has innovative portable energy sources powered by readily available propane gas.

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