India’s New Aviation Policy – Encouraging Growth for the Market

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India’s new Aviation Policy came into force in June 2016, following a considered and successful consultation period.

With India as the world’s fastest-growing aviation market, and expected to become the third largest aviation market in the world before 2025, the new policy reflects that position and enables the country to work towards accelerating growth.

The Indian Government first released their draft policy in 2014, making revisions and gaining feedback from stakeholders throughout the two-year period to produce a well thought-out and integrated policy to encourage the development of the Indian Aviation market.

The vision is to make flying affordable for the masses. The Indian Government also aims to enable: Read More »

AiQ’s Olympic Legacy

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With more than 10,000 athletes staying at the village of 31 apartment blocks close to the Olympic Park during the Rio Olympic Games, there must be a fair amount of logistical problems for officials to face. Although the media doesn’t always hear about them, especially if everything goes to plan and there are no disasters, there will always be thousands of people working hard behind the scenes to make such a massive event possible.

This is something that AiQ Consulting has a lot of experience in! During the London 2012 Games, we worked with various contractors and clients to organise the Pop-Up terminal at Heathrow for the thousands of athletes arriving and departing London before and after the Games.

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White Paper – New Ways of Thinking

Is Your Baggage Handling System holding You Back?

Over the last decade global passenger numbers have grown considerably putting immense pressure on the industry’s baggage systems; and passenger numbers are only set to rise.

So what does this mean for airports and airlines? Read More »

How can regional airports define optimum success?

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For small regional airports, reaching the optimum passenger Levels of Service (LoS) can be hard to achieve. Without the large support network, stakeholders and suppliers that a hub airport possesses, regional airports may find it difficult to know how large their check in area should be, whether their passengers are travelling through departures in an acceptable amount of time, and if their arrivals procedure is up to scratch. Read More »

Working in Partnership at Airports Worldwide

There is long history of suppliers and contractors working in partnership to generate the best results for clients. Airports, and the aviation industry as a whole, rely on different companies working together strategically to achieve their aims. While we can offer expertise in airport capacity planning, baggage systems, data modeling and stakeholder engagement, AiQ collaborate with teams of other contactors, such as airport design consultants, project managers and baggage design consultants, all contributing their own relevant specialisms. Read More »

Defining the optimum level of service for airports worldwide

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AiQ Consulting’s new IATA Modelling Tool provides airports with a new and efficient way of assessing their current and future infrastructure and operational needs based on the passenger level of service (LoS) requirements as outlined in the Airport Development Reference Manual 10th Edition (ADRM). The ADRM, published by IATA, has defined excellence in airport design for millions of passengers worldwide for over 40 years. Read More »

Improving the efficiency of airport Check-In with new technologies

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Improving the efficiency of Airport Check-In is a key concern for our clients. Not only affecting and improving passenger experience, introducing new technologies at Check-In can also reduce capacity issues and increase time spent at retail and F&B outlets for passengers. This is a valuable advantage for any airport wishing to grow profits. Read More »

India’s growing aviation industry – what next?

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India is expected to become the third largest aviation market before 2025, but the industry is not without its challenges. Over our next few blogs, we’ll be looking at the current situation in India, upcoming developments and the future of aviation. Read More »

Expanding Our Toolkit – A New Way to Visualize with Sim3D

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AiQ Consulting have improved our simulation modelling services with the fast becoming ‘defacto’ package in the aviation industry, Sim3D. We are pleased to announce our team is now fully trained in Sim3D, expanding our current service offering for clients. Read More »

Early Bags Storage – Why is it crucial for an efficient airport? Part One

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The storage and transfer of baggage is a crucial element of the efficiency of any airport, whether it is a large hub or a smaller regional airport. Using the experience we’ve gained from analysing and simulating baggage flows at airports such as GMR Hyderabad as well the research and insight providing from our forthcoming White Paper, Baggage Handling, we’ve looked at key parts of the process and how better Early Bag Storage can be put in place to improve baggage handling at airports.

The first part of our blog looks at the process of baggage handling, and how it is changing. Read More »