Recent developments Published in the January 2010 issue of Passenger Terminal World Magazine PDF-Download / 895 KB
	Iberia Airport Services Published in the October 2009 issue of Ground Handling International Magazin PDF-Download / 4.6 MB
	Efficiency drive G4S Success Story published in September Issue 2009 of Passenger Terminal World Magazine PDF-Download / 802 KB

January 8, 2010
Düsseldorf Airport and its Ground Handling Subsidiary Go for GroundStar
INFORM has signed contracts with SITA Airport IT for a major roll-out of IT systems at both Düsseldorf Airport and its subsidiary Düsseldorf Airport Ground Handling. The project is being undertaken by INFORM and its partner topsystem.
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December 31, 2009
National Aviation Services Modernises Processes and Control with GroundStar
As the culmination of an exhaustive selection process shortly before the end of 2009, and as part of their ambitious continued improvement program, NAS signed an agreement with INFORM for the implementation of a wide range of GroundStar systems at operation at Kuwait International Airport.
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November 24, 2009
Flightcare Trusts GroundStar to Streamline and Optimise its Operations
On 24th November last, the starting shot was fired for a contract for a new GroundStar project, signed by Ignacio Garrido, Managing Director of Flightcare and a group of other Flightcare representatives from Belgium, Spain and Italy.
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July 16, 2009
Budapest Airport Buys Complete GroundStar Suite
INFORM has won the contract for a further roll-out at Budapest Airport
Shortly after signing a contract for the implementation of the GroundStar AODB, Stand and Gate Management, Reporting, GroundStar Seasonal Flight Information System, Flight Information Processing and SITA Parser, Budapest Airport signed a further contract, this time for the roll-out of the GroundStar Human Resource Suite.
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July 8, 2009
Brussels Airlines Goes Fast
Brussels Airlines is already seeing the benefits of GroundStar.
GS Planning has decreased the Brussels Airlines planning exercise from 3 weeks to 1 day. Changes can now be handled much more easily and are less time-consuming. Even what-if-scenarios can be carried out with little effort. The workforce calculation has become precise and can be proven by reports.
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June 24, 2009
GS Planning: a Tool to Deal with the Crisis
GS Planning offers functionality to increase productivity and make better use of existing capacities.
The current economic crisis confronts the aviation industry with multiple challenges. Conditions might, and in fact do change drastically with very short notice to fluctuating flight capacities, fast changing flight-schedules and airlines using different, often smaller, aircraft types.
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June 9, 2009
Northport Benefits from RFID Solution
Communication solution accelerates real-time flow of information.
GS RealTime and GS Communications have been in use at Finnair's handling subsidiary Northport's base at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport since 2001. The system covers four separate handling units where it allocates a total of 760 staff members at Gate Services, Ramp Handling, Check-In and Baggage Handling.
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April 28, 2009
GroundStar is Extended to Lufthansa Operation at Cologne-Bonn Airport
GS RealTime has been rolled-out with only limited support from INFORM.
GroundStar is already successfully in use to plan Lufthansa's passenger services staff at all of their major German locations with realtime allocation of check-in staff being underpinned by GroundStar at Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart Airports. Additionally, GroundStar has recently been rolled-out to the Lufthansa check-in operation at Cologne-Bonn Airport.
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April 16, 2009
Aviapartner Roll-Out Successfully Completed
GS RealTime is operational at Aviapartner's Düsseldorf Airport operation.
The Aviapartner Group provides full aircraft handling including handling of passengers, baggage, cargo and mail, maintenance, aircraft cleaning at 31 airports in 5 European countries.
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March 31, 2009
DNATA Optimises its GroundStar Deployment
A long-term user of INFORM's systems reviews all departments to bring out the best in GroundStar.
The Passenger Services Department went live successfully in March, followed by the Ramp Department in April 2009. The reimplementation is ongoing and will impact more departments during the course of this year.
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March 9, 2009
Budapest Airport Signs for AODB
The Budapest Airport has signed an agreement with INFORM GmbH for the provision of an Airport Operational Database for the Ferihegy Airport.  INFORM's AODB, an integration-broker-based system of the GroundStar suite, will be installed with the main aim of guaranteeing the seamless integration of the variety of systems on which Ferihegy Airport's operation  relies.  INFORM will also supply its planning and real-time deployment systems for the management of aircraft stands, baggage belts and check-in counters.

March 2, 2009
GroundStar implementation for TAGS
TAGS signed a contract with GroundStar Asia for the installation of the INFORM GroundStar suite at its operation in Bangkok.  The implementation will be carried out by consultants and ground handling experts from ISEC, INFORM's Thai partner.   The solution comprises strategic planning and day-of-operation management systems aimed at increasing efficiency and quality of service and reducing operational costs at all of TAGS' ground handling areas.

February 05, 2009
A GroundStar is born in Asia
ISEC Inc, a Thai provider of business solutions to the aviation and logistics industries, and INFORM GmbH signed a cooperation agreement launching GroundStar Asia, an enterprise aimed to facilitate the access to the latest technology and best business practices in the Asian airport industry.

January 30, 2009
New Iberia Hub Control Centre
Roberto Alcover, head of Iberia Airlines´ ground handling operation in Madrid, announced the beginning of work for the building of a state-of-the-art Hub Control Center located at the award-winning Terminal 4 of the Barajas Airport.  The Center, which is planned for completion in June this year, will house the people and technological tools needed for the centralised management of the hub`s operation in the most efficient manner.  The core of the technology supporting the Center, which includes cutting-edge control and optimisation systems, is being supplied by INFORM.

January 23, 2009
German Logistics Award for Lufthansa and Fraport 
Lufthansa and Fraport have received the renowned German Logicstics award for their joint project to provide integrated passenger and baggage logistics at the Frankfurt aviation hub.
Since it was first awarded in 1984 the German Logistics Award has become one of the most renowned and important logistics awards. This year`s award ceremony took place during the logistics congress held in Berlin.
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January 22, 2009
LuxairGroup Signs Agreement
LuxairGroup, which includes Luxair Luxemburg Airlines, LuxairCargo, LuxairServices and LuxairTours, and INFORM signed an agreement today for the implementation of INFORMS` systems at Luxair`s operations in the Luxembourg Airport.  These systems include tools for strategic and tactical planning and real-time deployment of ground activities and resources.

January 8, 2009
GroundStar Arrives at Veneto
INFORM`s GroundStar system will be implemented at Verona Airport.
INFORM`s Italian partner Sirius Technology proudly announces the imminent arrival of GroundStar at Verona Airport.  Verona is situated in the region of Veneto, one of Italy`s most beautiful and most visited regions, which has Venice as its capital, and is among the wealthiest and most industrialised regions in Italy.
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Resource Management If you want to reach the peak of efficiency you need the right tools PDF-Download / 965 KB

September 15, 2008
ASIG Gets INFORM Solutions
ASIG Limited, one of the largest independent commercial aviation services companies in the world, is joining the INFORM family to use it suite of GroundStar IT products in support of their aircraft cleaning operations at London Heathrow.
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September 8, 2008
The AAS - Integrated Airport Apron Safety Fleet Management EU-project
The complementary enhancement of efficiency and safety of apron vehicle operations is the core objective of the AAS project (Integrated Airport Apron Safety Fleet Management), supported by the 7th Framework Program of the European Union. The result will be real-time assignment of staff, tasks and ground support equipment (GSE), running on the basis of geo-fencing and with access control for vehicles
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July 7, 2008
Successful GroundStar Users Conference in Stockholm
The Fifth GroundStar Users Conference took place in the beautiful city of Stockholm, Sweden. This was hosted by SAS Ground Services (SGS).
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May 5, 2008
GroundStar Live at DHL's Hub
In April 2008, the GroundStar RealTime module went live at DHL's central hub Leipzig/Halle Airport to manage loading teams and push-back tasks at the day of operation, as well as to allocate aircraft stands.
The GroundStar Planning module has been implemented to plan staff on the ramp and the GroundStar Rostering system has been implemented to schedule and manage staff all over the hub.

April 23, 2008
INFORM at Passenger Terminal Expo 2008 - Review
This year beautiful Amsterdam with its seventeenth-century canals, famous waterfront façades and charming city centre housed one of the important industry events: the Passenger Terminal Expo 2008.
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February 20, 2008
OCS' Successful Roll-Out to Gatwick Airport
INFORM has been implemented GS RealTime and Rostering at the aircraft-cleaning department of OCS to optimise rostering and real-time allocation processes as well as communications at London Heathrow Airport T1 and T4.
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Oktober 2, 2007
INFORM selected by IBERIA Handling to implement GroundStar at
Madrid-Barajas Airport
On 30th March 2007, IBERIA and INFORM signed an agreement to license and implement an extensive range of GroundStar systems to enable the management of IBERIA`S ground operations at its Madrid hub. Named GAUDÍ (an acronym which in Spanish represents the concept of an integrated system for the unified management of the airport operation), the system covers the main processes of demand calculation, shift modelling, staff scheduling and daily deployment and tracking of resources - in relation to both workforce and ground support equipment.
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September 28, 2007
Air France Going Live
Air France has gone live with GS RealTime at their Passenger Servive Department at Paris Orly Airport. It is the second department at Orly after Ramp Services, which went into production in May.

September 10, 2007
Emirates Passenger Services supported by GroundStar
Approximately two years ago, Emirates implemented GS Rostering and GS Planning for Passenger Services. We can now report that GS RealTime and Reporting have recently ´gone live`.
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