Emirates has announced the introduction of self-check-in and bag drop kiosks at Terminal 3, Dubai International Airport. It notes that the service is now available to customers traveling to all destinations except the USA, Canada, China, India and Hong Kong due to additional requirements from these destinations. The 16 self-service bag-drop machines and 8 self-service […]
The Green Gateway, a zero-emission, highly sustainable multimodal hub, has been named the winner of the 2020 Fentress Global Challenge (FGC), an annual global student design competition run by Fentress Architects. According to the company, over 100 entries were submitted, from students in more than 15 countries, with this year’s competition challenging participants to envision […]
The operator of Václav Havel Airport Prague claims to have created one of the most modern and technically advanced cybersecurity workplaces in the Czech Republic. It says the airport’s new Cyber Security Operational Centre (CSOC) is designed to strengthen the protection of its strategic infrastructure against cyberattacks, and to prevent the misuse of airport information […]
London City Airport welcomed the return of flights to Zürich (ZRH) on Monday. Five flights a week, operated by home-based BA CityFlyer, will go between London’s most central airport and Zürich. The route was London City Airport’s fourth most popular in 2019, seeing 429,019 passengers fly between the UK capital and Switzerland’s largest city. Welcoming […]
This Friday, the first flight of the Avianca airline flights arrived at the Quito International Airport from Bogotá, once the Government of Colombia lifted the restrictions on international passenger flights in that country. The Quito-Bogotá route is one of the most important in the region for both business and tourism flights and has historically been […]
Airports Council International (ACI) World has renewed its call for the widespread deployment of Covid-19 testing of international passengers before travel, as an alternative to restrictive national quarantine measures. With a predicted US$104.5bn reduction in revenue in 2020, and the airport industry representing 60% of aviation jobs, the economic toll of quarantine measures is high. […]
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has been appointed to Manchester Airports Group’s (MAG) Engineering, Project Management and Design Services framework (EPMDS), to provide airport advisory services. MAG comprises three airports – Manchester, East Midlands and London Stansted – and is the largest UK-owned airport operator, with 60 million passengers passing through its sites […]
The General Directorate of Civil Aviation announced through a publication on its website that frequency restrictions for airlines operating in Ecuador, both domestic and international flights, were eliminated. The decision was made after the lifting of the state of exception on September 14. Until September 14, the country had a 50% restriction on the frequencies […]
