RAK airport multimillion contract to ARINC

Ras Al Khaimah International Airport has awarded a 10-year contract to ARINC Incorporated to design, supply and install core suite of airport passenger processing solutions and advanced airport operational systems. The multi million-dollar contract involves, in addition to the above mentioned products and installation of ARINC’s core suite of airport passenger processing solutions, advanced airport operational systems and state-of-the-art, common use passenger processing systems (CUPPS) and boarding operations at the expanding airport. The news was announced in Abu Dhabi at the 18th World Route Development Forum (World Routes) by Tony Lynch, ARINC’s Regional Director, ARINC Middle East & Africa and Andrew Gower, CEO of Ras Al-Khaimah International Airport, on Sunday. The installation of VMuse/CUPPS, L-DCS, AirVue (FIDS), AirDB (AODB), InfoHub and Multi-Channel at RAK, in what will be the first off-site hotel check-in and bag drop in the region, will also equip the airport with future intelligence that will change the way in which people use it today. It is anticipated that the number of CUPPS workstations and services will increase during the lifetime of the contract, as not only is the existing terminal being expanded, but there are plans for a new passenger terminal, dedicated to charter activity. Tony Lynch highlighted that ARINC won the bid through its close collaboration and consultation with the team at RAK Airport. “We spent 18 months carefully ascertaining their requirements,” he said. “From a small hosted L-DCS the scope has been extended to the airport-wide suite of products which has now been ratified.” From gulftoday