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Identification and evaluation of safety risks on aprons
Published in Vladimír. Socha, Lenka Hanáková, Andrej Lališ, New Trends in Civil Aviation, 2018
D. Liptáková, J. Kolesár, E. Jenčová, V. Begera
Aircraft ground handling defines the servicing of an aircraft while it is on the ground and parked at a terminal gate of an airport (Ferenc, Koscak, & Ferencova 2012). The major categories of ground handling services are:Cabin Service: aim is ensure passenger comfort (cabin cleaning, washable items like pillows and blankets).Catering: includes the unloading of unused food and drink from the aircraft and the loading of fresh food and drink.Ramp Service: includes guiding the aircraft into and out of the parking position; towing with pushback tractors; lavatory drainage; water cartage; air conditioning; luggage handling; air cargo handling; refueling; passenger stairs; deicing, etc.
The management of safety on the airport ramp
Published in Neil Johnston, Nick McDonald, Ray Fuller, Aviation Psychology in Practice, 2017
Aircraft ground handling comprises all those operations servicing an aircraft during a normal turnaround between landing and departure, including marshalling, chocking, refuelling, servicing water, toilets and catering, passenger embarkation/disembarkation, the loading and unloading of baggage and freight and aircraft towing and pushback. It is an integral part of the aviation flight cycle upon which both the safety and efficiency of aviation operations crucially depend.
The lavatory lens: Tracking the global movement of pathogens via aircraft wastewater
Published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2023
Aaron Bivins, Robert Morfino, Andrew Franklin, Stuart Simpson, Warish Ahmed
Once access to the aircraft and secured airport space is established, sample collection is complicated by the aircraft ground servicing operations and the limited time available to perform them. When the aircraft arrives at the ramp, there are several service activities that must be performed in tandem within specified time frames, including passenger disembarking, baggage handling, aircraft cleaning, refueling, and any required maintenance. Ideally, the wastewater sample collection should take place as a component of the routine lavatory servicing. To accomplish this in their program, Qantas designed and manufactured a sample collection device that connect to the outlet on the aircraft lavatory service panel and then connects with the standard lavatory waste dump hose (Ehret et al., 2022). In the case of the previously mentioned Airbus A380, there are two waste tank discharge valves each of which drains a set of three tanks in series. Sampling of the A380 may therefore require composite sampling from each discharge valve to achieve a representative sample. Sample collection protocols to perform end-to-end operations in a safe and efficient manner that is integrated into routine aircraft servicing must also be carefully considered. During the CDC program, the sample collection added three minutes, on average, to the aircraft ground handling times with zero spills (Morfino et al., 2023). In most cases lavatory servicing is not the rate limiting step in the ground handling of aircraft, and therefore wastewater sampling is not expected to significantly affect turnaround times. More recently the European Union (EU) Health Security Committee and Integrated Political Crisis Response has published ad hoc guidance to detail considerations such as coordinating with partners, sampling locations, and sample collection methods for aircraft wastewater sampling for SARS-CoV-2 (European Commission, 2023).
New boarding strategies for a novel aircraft cabin installed with side-slip seats
Published in Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 2022
Opportunity still exists to improve the seat assignment algorithm of the boarding assistant system. A much more efficient algorithm should be proposed to tackle group members’ desires to sit together. Other considerations include the physical agility of passengers, as well as the personalized and need-based seat reservations. Careful considerations of these factors will increase the service level and improve aircraft ground handling.