Thai Airways are the largest Ground Handling Agent at Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok (BKK), providing quality services to more than 40 airlines. With that many customer airlines, and with many using their own DCS, the overhead and expense of staff training, coupled with allocation problems, was proving a significant issue.

To address this, Thai Airways has selected Damarel’s class-leading Babel and Embark products for use at both check-in counters and boarding gates, allowing the use of an airline’s native DCS while keeping a common agent interface.

Damarel will be exhibiting at Check-In '08, September 3rd - 5th in the Disney Yacht and Beach Club Resort, Florida. Check-In '08 follows on from last year's very successful DisCUSS conference and focuses on the check-in practices of the future.

Cambodian Airport Management Services (CAMS) have recently completed the installation of a suite of Damarel’s passenger handling products at Siem Reap and Phnom Penh airports.

As the sole handling agent, CAMS chose to implement the iMUSE CUTE system from ARINC, with the Damarel products selected to provide consistent, easy to use interfaces for check-in and boarding of passengers for both the flag carrying airlines and the Low Cost Carriers.

Damarel exhibited at the ACI SMAG Conference in Porto, Portugal. ACI Europe's first Small Medium Airports Action Group targeted the issues that affect airports of this size, and provided a forum for sharing best practice and information in a competitive sector.

In conjunction with IER, Damarel recently ran a successful self-scanning trial at Manchester International. By integrating Vanguard with the IER QBG, passengers were able to scan their own documents at Outbound Control Points. Vanguard performs all the checks necessary to ensure that the document is valid, and unique, and controls access airside by means of the QBG automated gate.

Damarel are pleased to announce their attendance at Passenger Terminal Expo 2008, 15th - 17th April in Amsterdam Rai. PTE 08 is the largest international airport terminal conference and exhibition in Europe, featuring the industry’s leading suppliers of technology and services.

Zagreb Airport in Croatia has become the latest installation for Vanguard, Damarel's security solution for scanning home printed boarding passes and ATB2 coupons at Outbound Control Points.

Accurate calculations are vital to achieve optimum load planning performance, particularly for flights carrying unusual items. To help with this, LodeStone now has full support for Skis and Boots, making the Winter Season flights much easier to handle.

In conjunction with IER, Damarel have delivered an integrated, self-scanning solution for passengers going through security check points at Manchester International Airport.

Damarel join the IATA Strategic Partner programme.

Damarel has now added Babel CLFs for Turkish Airlines and Emirates to Babels already in use by SAS Ground Services.

Philippine Airlines are rolling out Damarel's Babel CLF and Embark LBA2 to all international and domestic stations.

Damarel are supplying a number of Babel TEs, Embark LBA2 and it’s own L-DCS departure control system to the new state of the art terminal at Tan Son Nhut airport in Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) formerly Saigon.

Swissport Americas have selected FiNDnet, Focus and CCS as their operational tools, helping to streamline and automate their business.