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Jan 31, 2018 (newstodate): Finnair opened its new COOL Nordic Terminal at Helsinki Airport on January 8, 2018, and the process has proceeded largely as planned - with some snags, as might be expected.
-Cargo has been moving largely as planned during the go-live period and operations were transferred from the old terminal one day ahead of schedule. However, because of the scale of shifting operations to a brand-new terminal and despite Finnair Cargo's prepared approach there have been some unforeseen delays that have affected a small number of shipments says Ari Soinola, Finnair Cargo Director at Excellence.
-Some delays were to be expected on a project of this size, but at the same time we have done everything we can to minimize disruptions including taking narrow-body aircraft out of operation during the initial period, and focusing traffic within Europe to our road feeders.
-We are learning new processes and ways of working that ensure the terminal warehouse and Control Center work in synch. There have been some teething problems with these working in unison, but nothing we haven't been able to fix quite rapidly and we have had experts on site 24/7 to limit disruptions.
-Narrow-body aircraft operations from COOL are now being initiated gradually and we expect to have all our cargo operations flying at full speed around mid-February.
-In terms of technology integration and proactive steering model this terminal is a first in Europe, and once this learning period is completed, customers will start to feel the everyday benefit in terms of capacity, efficiency and reliability, says Mr Soinola.
-Cargo has been moving largely as planned during the go-live period and operations were transferred from the old terminal one day ahead of schedule. However, because of the scale of shifting operations to a brand-new terminal and despite Finnair Cargo's prepared approach there have been some unforeseen delays that have affected a small number of shipments says Ari Soinola, Finnair Cargo Director at Excellence.
-Some delays were to be expected on a project of this size, but at the same time we have done everything we can to minimize disruptions including taking narrow-body aircraft out of operation during the initial period, and focusing traffic within Europe to our road feeders.
-We are learning new processes and ways of working that ensure the terminal warehouse and Control Center work in synch. There have been some teething problems with these working in unison, but nothing we haven't been able to fix quite rapidly and we have had experts on site 24/7 to limit disruptions.
-Narrow-body aircraft operations from COOL are now being initiated gradually and we expect to have all our cargo operations flying at full speed around mid-February.
-In terms of technology integration and proactive steering model this terminal is a first in Europe, and once this learning period is completed, customers will start to feel the everyday benefit in terms of capacity, efficiency and reliability, says Mr Soinola.