Munich Airport wants to purchase autonomous passenger boarding bridges

Last week, Munich Airport announced that it had signed a declaration of intent with Dabico Airport Solutions Germany GmbH to develop an innovative concept for fully automated passenger boarding bridges.

“With this pioneering project, we want to reduce the time it takes to dock and undock the passenger boarding bridges and increase operational safety and the efficiency of our handling processes,” says Jost Lammers, CEO of Munich Airport GmbH.

The development of autonomous passenger boarding bridges is part of a digitalization strategy at Munich Airport that includes operational, commercial and, above all, passenger-friendly processes and technologies. The numerous measures that have already been implemented include biometric boarding pass controls, biometric access controls to boarding gates and lounges, so-called “smart trolleys” for navigation, flight information and shopping offers, chatbots for passenger inquiries, self-checkout cash registers, self-order terminals in restaurants, Sensor technology for calculating waiting times at security checks as well as robotics projects in the area of ​​ground traffic services and also the use of robots for cleaning in Terminal 2 and in the satellite.