http://themobileterminal.com/blog.php The newest Blog Entries on Themobileterminal en Copyright TMT 01-01-1970 b.media images/blog_logo.gif blog.php 179 70 blog.php?id=42 a a 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=41 The information and booking platform Villach Air Terminal (VAT) went online at midnight! Connecting Villach: Villach Air Terminal is an infrastructure development initiative based on a Public-Private-Partnership and was initiated by our partner Airport Excellence S.L. and ourselves in cooperation with the City of Villach in Austria, b.media webware GmbH, local transportation partners and seven partner airports, Klagenfurt (KLU), Ljubljana (LJU), Venice (VCE), Salzburg (SZG), Graz (GRZ), Triest (TRS) and Treviso (TSF). TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=40 TMT Director Operations Asia-Pacific Johann Pacher will be attending two aviation events in Singapore in the weeks to come. This week already he will be at the Low Cost Airlines World Asia Pacific 2012 at Marina Bay Sands from tomorrow till Friday (February 8-10). Next week, he will attend this year's Singapore Airshow at the Changi Exhibition Centre (CEC) from Tuesday to Sunday (Feb 14-19). TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=39 Last Thursday TMT Managing Director Max Schintlmeister was at Vienna Airport (VIE) to visit former colleagues and to have a look at VIE's new Skylink-terminal that is going to be opened in June this year. Moreover he used the opportunity to see the TMT Mobile Counters that... TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=38 With 2011 drawing to a close, we would like to cordially thank you for your interest in TMT The Mobile Terminal. Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones, staff and colleagues and a happy and prosperous New Year 2012! TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=37 Just like in the past years, TMT is currently attending the exhibition of the Airport Exchange that is taking place not in Europe, as usual, but in Abu Dhabi, UAE, this year. TMT founder and managing director Thomas Melcher is on site and has been reporting about many interesting conversations with representatives of the aviation industries in the Middle East and Africa so far who are planning various exciting projects. Alongside, he is also visiting potential suppliers for TMT at their stands. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=36 Last Friday TMT handed over Geneva International Airport's (GVA) reinstalled TMT terminal on a brightly sunny day mirroring everyone's high spirits. The last installation days were used to install the terminal entrances and to finalize the terminal interior: installation of the air conditioning system, flooring, electrical installation, and cleaning. Also, the building was checked and accepted by the fire department and airport police. The electrical acceptance by the Swiss authorities was completed successfully as well. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=35 After a day of rest on Sunday, our fourth day of reinstallation in Geneva started out quite grey yesterday morning. But that wouldn't hamper our motivation to finish the installation of the terminal's basic wood-and-steel shell that day. By midday the goal was reached with the last parts of the roof structure fitted and the sun braking through the clouds, making way for blue skies - high time for a little traditional celebration during lunch break. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=34 This busy year flashed by so fast, we can't believe it's already winter again here in Europe! And, if you remember from last winter's blog posts, with the winter season Geneva International Airport (GVA) will need its TMT mobile terminal again that had been put in mothballs throughout the summer - well, not really of course, but it wasn't needed during the less busy summer season and had been stored away. To be ready for the flood of winter tourists who fly into GVA to reach the skiing resorts in the Swiss and French mountains, GVA's TMT terminal will be reinstalled as a back-up terminal on the airside of Geneva's main terminal. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=33 One of TMT The Mobile Terminal's most important characteristics that separates it from its competitors is its high speed in providing mobile airport terminal infrastructure all over the globe. This speed isn't just made up of very short planning times and assembly times on site. It's also the time we need to get our mobile terminals from one geographic location to the next. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=32 He spends most of his time absorbed in the optimization and further development of the TMT products. Every bolt and screw that can be spared and every construction detail that can be cleverly simplified leaves him satisfied - Stefano Caneppele, our Head of Product Development. Before working for a range of architecture firms, Stefano studied architecture in Vienna, Austria, and wrote his diploma thesis at an airport for sport aviation. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=31 Maybe you've been wondering every now and then who is actually writing all our blog posts. Well, it's Klaudia Krauss, our PR Manager, whom I'd like to introduce to you today. Klaudia has been with TMT from the very beginning when we decided to let the world know that we have mobile terminals to offer. Max Schintlmeister 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=30 Have you ever been curious about who is the helpful person behind the friendly voice answering our phone at the TMT headquarter? Here she is, Karin Hafner, our Directrice Administration since October 2009. As she loves to write, she chose to introduce herself to you. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=29 After introducing one of our partners in an interview in last Friday's blog post, we would like to present another member of our TMT team to you today: Johann Pacher, our Director of Operations Asia-Pacific and Head of Finance & Controlling. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=28 In the Middle East TMT The Mobile Terminal is represented by our sales partner AIRPO-TECH LLC. At this year's Dubai Air Show in June we took the chance to ask AIRPO-TECH managing partner Krikor K. Jabourian and sales manager Robert Newbould a couple of questions about the company itself and about the pecularities and trends they see in the aviation market of the Middle East. Here's what they told us. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=27 Yesterday TMT attended the opening ceremony of the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences' (CUAS) new outdoor test facility for building sciences in the technology park of Villach, Austria. In the two years to come TMT plans to cooperate with the university in using the facility to conduct several tests of the architectural membranes used as the static and insulating outer shell of our mobile terminals. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=26 As an introduction to this year's second quarterly team meeting from Monday to Wednesday last week, TMT decided to visit Salzburg Airport W. A. Mozart that is beautifully located in the Austrian Alps. Most of our employees have indeed already been able to look and work behind the airport scenes but not all of them. Günter Kajba, Salzburg Airport's airport operations duty manager, was our guide who - working there for over 35 years now - knows the airport like the back of his hands. He showed us around, explained operations and equipment, and answered our questions. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=25 Spring has reached Geneva and its surrounding mountains and with the snow melting from the ski slopes Geneva International Airport (GVA) has finished another busy winter season with droves of ski tourists rushing into GVA to access the circumjacent ski resorts. At the end of last year the airport bought the first ever-built TMT terminal that went into operation at GVA in January to help manage the increased winter traffic. As GVA doesn't need the temporary terminal facility during the less busy warmer season the TMT terminal has been removed for the summer last week, giving TMT The Mobile Terminal the first chance to test the disassembly of a TMT terminal under real conditions. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=24 This time we'd like to introduce Mathias Auer to you, our Head of Business Development and regional expert for Europe (East), the Middle East, India and North America. You might remember him from our last blog post about the business trip to India. Mathias started his airport/aviation career at the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum in Austria where he studied Urban Technologies and wrote his final thesis about the development of low cost carriers in Austria. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=23 The past two weeks TMT was busy travelling in India where TMT The Mobile Terminal already enjoys a pretty high brand awareness thanks to our head of business development and regional expert for India, Mathias Auer, who has laid a solid groundwork there for us throughout the last two years. From April 5 to 8 we've been at the ACI Asia Pacific Regional Assembly 2011 in New Delhi... TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=22 Greetings from our stand at the Passenger Terminal EXPO 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark! Today is the last day of the exhibition and we can already look back at two very exciting days. The general interest and demand within the industry for mobile terminal solutions to bridge temporary capacity shortages is undoubtedly increasing rapidly. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=21 From Monday to Wednesday this week we've held a TMT-workshop at our headquarters in Villach, Austria. The TMT-team got together to process the experience and market information we've collected throughout the past 1,5 years into an extended, more diverse product portfolio that enables us to meet the very individual market demands more flexibly without questioning the basic TMT-concept (modular, quick, easy). TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=20 Long time no read. It's high time for an update. After the official presentation of our prototype in Geneva last month - which met with a great media response (e.g. Reuters, Spiegel Online, International Herald Tribune) - we're currently busy talking to interested parties in various countries such as India, Austria or Italy. We're also working full steam on expanding our product portfolio with regard to all aspects of passenger handling. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=19 Two days ago, on Wednesday, we have finally presented our first TMT module to the public. Our invited guests were greeted by a sparkling white TMT module under a cloudless, deep blue sky - perfect conditions to present our beauty from its best side. In a press conference the General Director of Geneva Airport (AIG), Robert Deillon, Head of AIG Passenger Management Jean-Luc Portier and our two founders of TMT, Thomas Melcher and Max Schintlmeister, officially introduced and explained the terminal and described the motivation of AIG to acquire our serial number 001. TMT The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=18 TMT is very proud to announce that our first TMT module went into operation on January 8, 2011. We and our first customer Geneva International Airport (GVA) are very pleased to be able to say that everything went perfectly well and that there haven't been any complications so far. For the time being, the terminal is The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=17 First of all a Happy New Year to all of you! We hope you've had a good start into 2011. It should be safe to claim that the last weeks have been some of the busiest and most suspenseful of our company history. To see one's product idea become a reality is so great and overwhelming one can't properly put it into words. Especially our working teams on site at our suppliers' factories and currently at the construction site in Geneva are looking back on weeks of especially hard work and little sleep. And there's still some work ahead until The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=16 ...our construction wizards of Membran-Service-Wilfling. Last week The Mobile Terminal started the installation of the TMT in Geneva and a Wilfling construction team of eight is supporting us. The company is based in a small town near the Bavarian Chiemsee and has an impressive list of references for international steel and membrane installation projects. The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=15 Europe is drowning in masses of snow causing an incredible chaos everywhere. During the night of our fourth installation day the snow has also reached Geneva International Airport where our construction workers are doing magic withstanding the ice, snow and wind to assemble the first TMT. Thirty centimetres of snow in one night, but half of the terminal's steel construction is up, the according flooring done. Especially the installation of The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=14 Our first terminal is currently in the final stages of production and a big part of it has already arrived on site at Geneva International Airport (GVA) where The Mobile Terminal has started the installation process. The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=13 Textile architecture is an increasingly popular and innovative area in contemporary, modern architecture because it allows a high degree of creativity when it comes to designing all kinds of shapes and structures. With textile membranes even massive, huge structures keep an air of lightness. Some might think of tents when we talk about textile architecture with membranes, but these constructions are as stable and weather-resistant as fixed buildings when manufactured and constructed professionally. The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=12 As you may already know our TMT prototype is currently being produced and we're all on high rotation. The production is advancing quickly and the first steel construction parts have already been finished. So we thought this would be a good moment to introduce our The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=11 One year after our official product launch at the Airport Exchange 2009 in Barcelona we've been in Istanbul at the Airport Exchange 2010 this week. It has been a busy mission and there wasn't much time to enjoy this exciting multi-cultural city at the Bosporus. This time we had a brand-new stand design that featured renderings of... The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=9 So we have our elaborated blueprints and renderings. But does this all work in reality? To proof the functionality of its mobile terminal TMT The Mobile Terminal completed its first trial operation on September 22nd. With this first trial session we wanted to check whether the available space and the space allocation meet the requirement to handle up to 180 passengers within one TMT basic-module. The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=8 After our first introduction to the aviation public at the end of last year where our product was met with a lot of genuine interest and curiosity, we continued to display and discuss our product at various occasions this year. We've presented our TMT™-solutions to various interested parties in India, the Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates... The Mobile Terminal 01-01-1970 blog.php?id=7 A lot has been happening at TMT throughout the last months. Among other developments, TMT The Mobile Terminal Project has been newly structured. Now the new TMT business group named TMT The Mobile Terminal is... 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