If the skylift as it is called, become famous, it might mean the end of the airport bridge, and dramatic movie endings where heroes run on the bridge, to meet the lady of their love. I did’t really like those melodramatic scenes anyway. The problem with Airports and Airlines in trying to provide a similar service across different destinations is that they usually have better service at their Hub Airport and might not have the same facilities across various different airports. An example of that being Emirates, with them providing air bridge facilities across Dubai, where as in lesser packed Indian Airports they need to bus people in and get them to climb the aircraft.

In order to provide unified service and even in terms of ergonomics of airplanes and the trips that people take just to get on an aircraft, even if it seems that right now its not required, there is a huge change that is required. That change could be provided by SkyLift.

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The passengers’ arrival and departure continues to be a complicated and slow process, submitting the human beings to not so developed mechanical systems. Adults, children and people of reduced or none mobility who carries several baggages have to face with conveyor belts, stairs and rude automobiles of various sizes and shapes from place to place. Designer Hannes Seeberg, because of this lack of uniformization and adjustments, conceived a multifunctional vehicle named to deal with just these issues.

This vehicle conception is simple: transporting people and baggages from the embark transit station to the airplane just once, putting aside the stairs, the cold wind or physical obstacles. Skylift has four telescopic cabins which goes up and down along of two axis — although it looks like a common automobile. Then, the passengers and/or baggages can be put at any level of big or small airplane, a low-powered aircraft or a departure platform. Imagine that this vehicle being powered with electrical batteries, making it a greener alternative on an already pollute aircraft industry.

Besides, this vehicle has a pleasant, ample and friendly design, and this contributes to its functionality — contesting the traditional image of an airplane embark, made by strait and claustrophobic devices. A last detail: the skylift, conceived in 2005, is still on paper. When will this device be produced and used? At least an Emirates branded bus will be able to provide a unified experience throughout their fleet and all destinations. Not the most elegant, but the most eye catching, free publicity anyone ?