ARINC at Cairo Terminal 3

Cairo International has joined the front rank of world airports with the recent opening of its massive new passenger facility, Terminal 3. Designed to handle a maximum of 14 million passengers a year, Cairo Terminal 3 is the new home of 27 international and domestic airlines carrying 11,000 passengers each day on some 200 scheduled flights.

The smooth operational debut of Terminal 3 was evidence of the careful planning and coordination of the Cairo Airport Company (CAC), the airlines at Terminal 3, and the airport’s systems supplier—ARINC.

Cairo Terminal 3 represents the leading edge of Airport IT systems design. It is equipped with the most advanced suite of airport and airline passenger technologies ever deployed, 14 state-of-the-art systems from ARINC, including several major “firsts” for the airport industry and for the Middle East.

ARINC installed the world’s first context-aware operational platform at Terminal 3, to control all employee access to critical ramp control and management applications. Employees are linked only to those IT applications they actually require, according to their profile, work assignment, type of electronic access and location. This ensures the appropriate and secure exchange of passenger information, flight information, catering orders, security prescriptions, maintenance tools, and more.
 
ARINC has provided Terminal 3 with Egypt’s first custom Biometric Immigration Gate (BIG) system, to streamline border control processing and reduce long security queues. When qualified passengers use the automated biometric gates, Cairo Airport police can focus more attention on the manual screening of sensitive passengers, a major benefit to frequent travelers and a competitive advantage for airlines.