Cargo and Terminal

Handling At Airport

Presented By :

Rahul R Kothari 27

MMS SEM III

Cargo

Cargo (or freight) is goods or produce transported, generally for commercial gain,

by ship or aircraft.

Now, the term is now extended to intermodal train, van or truck.

It includes livestock, but usually does not include bunkers (fuel for powering the vessel or

vehicle), accompanying baggage, vessel or vehicle's equipment and spare parts, mail,

and stores.

Personnel carried on-board are classified as crew or passengers.

AIRPORT HANDLING PROCEDURE

(AHP)

It includes several operation like

Reservation counter

Check –in counter

Baggage Make Up Area (BMA)

Boarding gate

Region of aircraft movement and parking(RAMP)

Arrival

Cargo

1. RESERVATION COUNTER:

Reservation counter means a counter, where from a passenger can purchase his/her ticket

for travel

2. CHECK- IN :

The check-in is normally handled by an airline itself or a handling agent working on

behalf of an airline.

Passengers usually hand over any baggage that they do not wish or are not allowed to

carry on to the aircraft's cabin.

Check-in is usually the first procedure for a passenger when arriving at an airport,

The airline check-in's main function, however, is to accept luggage that is to go in the

aircraft's cargo hold and issue boarding passes.

3. BAGGAGE MAKE UP AREA

Baggage Make Up Area (BMA) is the adjacent place of terminal building where the check-in /registered

baggage are segregated as per flight detail, reconciled by the employee, and consolidated in trolleys and

dispatched to the RAMP(Region of Aircraft Movement and Parking)

Airport Baggage

Handling

4. REGION OF AIRCRAFT MOVEMENT AND PARKING (RAMP)

FUNCTIONS ON RAMP:

• Take all details like ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival), incoming load, baggage weight and count, transfer baggage, SSR passengers details etc.

• Report on the RAMP beforehand for checking GSE (Ground Support Equipment).

• Aligned stepladder.

• Evacuate passengers.

• Ensure anti-sabotage check (interior check of cabin by airlines security staff).

• Offload baggage and cargo.

• Clean cabin of the aircraft.

• Load catering.

• Refuelling.

• Start embarkation.

• Load outgoing baggage.

• Tally with boarding gate’s employee

5. Arrival

Before arrival of the aircraft the arrival staff must check action on the following

items:

Review all inbound messages.

Check ETA and display the same on the FIDS (Flight Information Display

System).

Check out aircraft registration and parking Bay.

Check for any special handling message –VIP/CIP/WCHR/UM.(Where VIP –

Very Important Person, CIP-Commercial Important Person, WCHR-Wheel

Chair Till RAMP, UM-Unaccompanied Minor).

6. Cargo Handling Process at Airport

The goods (or consolidations) are received at the airline’s handling agent warehouse.

The handling agent will often be a separate company contracted by the airline, but cargo

handling can also be an in-house function of the airline, especially at a major hub

Also the airlines often offer their in-house cargo handling as a commercial service to other

airlines. •

The handling agent takes care of the air cargo handling at the airport, to and from the

aircraft.

Depending on the kind of goods, destination (flight number) and urgency, delivery at the

handling agent has to be done within a certain norm-time before departure (TBD) of the

aircraft, also called a slot or a slot-time.

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