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Monday, November 20, 1972
Data will be constantly updated and fully comprehensive, providing
such details as aircraft flight numbers, parking bay numbers, estimated times
of arrival and departure, baggage distribution numbers, and flight delays and
diversions of aircraft.
The spokesman described the period between the arrival and departure
of passenger aircraft as "one of intense activity by many agencies."
Prior to arrival, these agencies plan how their equipment and personnel
will be allocated to facilitate a rapid unloading of the aircraft. Planes
must be ready for departure usually in less than one hour after their arrival,
he added.
The aircraft must be checked by engineers, cleared, refuelled, provided
with food and other consumable items before it can be loaded with passengers
and cargo.
"All the necessary co-ordination involved is currently carried out
through the airport telephone system. This has now proved to be not only time
consuming, but totally inadequate for the volume of traffic," he said.
The system has remained basically the same since the original Terminal
Building came into operation in 1962, with a handling capacity of 720 passengers
an hour,
The size of the building has recently been expanded under stage III of
the Airport Development Plan to handle 2,250 passengers an hour. It is expected
that the new system will be capable of meeting the needs of the airport when
Stage IV developments are completed, when it will be possible to handle 3,200
passengers an hour,
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