International. Royal Boon Edam reported that it has won the contract for the installation of its Airport Swinglane equipment at Xiamen International Airport in China. This project is the first in China that is not part of a pilot program.
Xiamen Airport is one of the busiest airports in China: almost 20 million passengers in 2013. As a major provincial and regional air hub, the airport serves the coastal city of Xiamen and the surrounding cities of Fujian Province; it also has direct routes to Malaysia, Korea, Japan and many other countries in Asia. In addition, there is a route to Europe via Amsterdam. Like many airports in China, Xiamen has taken the lead in implementing self-service boarding in the airport terminal.
The link to Amsterdam has been very advantageous for Boon Edam. The company is headquartered in the Netherlands and the Dutch Consul General has supported Boon Edam's offer. The company and representatives of Xiamen Airport met for the first time at the China Airport Check-in Summit, held in Shanghai. After carefully studying different proposals from the competition, the airport finally decided to grant the order to Boon Edam. The design of the Airport Swinglane self-boarding lines is the most effective and suitable for the Chinese market. The system was installed at Xiamen Airport before the end of 2014.
It should be noted that air traffic in the world, and particularly in Latin America, has had a significant increase in recent years, which leads to an increase in people who transit daily through air terminals, making the management of human traffic a key activity in airports.
An example of an air terminal with a huge flow of passengers is the Mexico City airport, which in 2013 ranked first in the most active air terminals in the region, with 346,788 flights. In turn, Panama airport was the one that presented the greatest increase in its flight frequencies, with 11.4%, reflected in 11,328 departures in 2013, according to information from the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA).
This follows that airports are highly complex structures that require fast and efficient boarding, which is also comfortable and safe for the high traffic of people who travel daily.
