Much more than PRM

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Rome-based GSE supplier AVIOGEI is perhaps best-known for its PRM – passengers with reduced mobility – handling equipment, but it actually has a vast array of GSE products available to the market

Massimiliano Martone, AVIOGEI’s international business development & marketing manager, was on hand at inter airport to show visitors to the company’s stand around its various GSE offerings on display. One of the vehicles was indeed a PRM handling unit, which it calls the EA 6000 FLS ‘Mobile Lounge’ PRM transfer vehicle.

FLS stands for Front Loading System, which indeed it is. The EA 6000 can pick PRM up from ground level and deliver them to a height of 5.8 metres, and can handle a maximum of 12 individuals. A supplementary rear loading platform comes as an option, while the single operator is positioned in a fully integrated cab.

Also available in VIP and catering configurations, the unit has users and customers including Swissport, Avinor, Lugano Airport, Alitalia, Aviapartner, Reunion Air Assistance, SEA, Falck, ADR Assistance as well as many others. One, in the VIP configuration and based at Rome’s Ciampino International Airport, is used by the Pope, Martone explains, when His Holiness is flying through the Italian capital.

The company’s PRM unit range is increasing. Soon to add to the EA 6000 and the 10 or so other PRM handling models it manufactures, AVIOGEI expects to launch a whole new model – ThunderLift. ThunderLift is expected not only to feature some new, improved capabilities but also to be offered at an even more reasonable price, he says.

But AVIOGEI supplies much more than PRM transfer units – it also produces GSE including passenger stairs, dollies, catering service vehicles, cargo loaders, water supply vehicles, lavatory service units, elevating platforms and much more. All this equipment can be supported by a dedicated maintenance company that also forms part of the wider AVIOGEI group, helping the group as a whole to monitor any after sales problems and thereby always ensuring the highest possible product manufacturing quality going forward, Martone notes.

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