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PRESS RELEASE: Opening of new cargo terminal future-proofs WFS’ handling ambitions at ‘progressive’ Brussels Airport

11th February 2021

NEW CARGO TERMINAL FUTURE-PROOFS WFS’ HANDLING AMBITIONS AT ‘PROGRESSIVE’ BRUSSELS AIRPORT Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), the world’s largest air cargo handler, has future-proofed its growing handling operation at Brussels Airport with the opening of a modern 250,000-tonne capacity cargo terminal, designed to optimise speed and deliver self-service and real-time information for airlines and freight forwarders. […]

EUROCAE and EUROCONTROL strengthen cooperation in aviation standards development

9th February 2021

Today, the Director General of EUROCONTROL, Eamonn Brennan, and the Secretary General of EUROCAE, Christian Schleifer, concluded a new Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the two organisations at a virtual meeting in the presence of the EUROCAE President and Council Chair, Bruno Ayral, Thales LAS France. The new MoC builds on and strengthens decades of […]

ACI commends airports for customer engagement during pandemic

9th February 2021

Airports Council International (ACI) World has commended airports that have continued to prioritize listening and engaging with customers during the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘The Voice of the Customer’ recognition is for airports that have demonstrated significant efforts in gathering passenger feedback through the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) program to help them better understand their customers during […]

Bahrain International’s new terminal opens

2nd February 2021

The new US$1.1bn terminal at Bahrain International Airport began passenger operations on January 28. The terminal will allow the airport to accommodate 14 million passengers per year, thanks to a combination of 104 check-in counters, 36 passport control units and 24 security screening points. His Excellency Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed, minister of transportation and telecommunications […]

Latvian A.C.B. won the tender to reconstruct Palanga Airport runway 

27th January 2021

A Latvian company A.C.B., which already has similar experience in reconstructing Vilnius Airport runway in 2017, won the contract for reconstruction of Palanga Airport runway in the call for tenders that was issued in autumn of the last year. During this project, one taxiway and some parts of the apron are also planned to be […]

Groupe ADP airports sign up to ‘Airports for trust’ charter

25th January 2021

Groupe ADP and several partner companies belonging to the global airports network, including TAV Airports, Airports International Group (Amman), Liège Airports, ZAG (Zagreb), Nuevo Pudahuel (Santiago de Chile) and Ravinala Airports (Madagascar), have signed the ‘Airports for trust’ charter. Through the charter, the signatories – representing 23 airports out of the group’s current network of […]

IATA Urges Support for Common European Digital Vaccination Certificate

25th January 2021

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged all branches of the European Union to support an initiative from Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to agree a common digital European COVID-19 vaccination certificate that would enable those who are vaccinated to travel freely within Europe without COVID-19 testing. In an open letter to Ursula von der […]

Frankfurt Cargo Services handles first Covid vaccine shipments in support of WFS’ ‘Project Coldstream’

22nd January 2021

Frankfurt Cargo Services (FCS), a subsidiary of Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has handled its first shipments of Covid-19 vaccines from German biotechnology company BioNTech as the airport gears up to play a prominent role in the global recovery from the coronavirus. Doses of the vaccine were handled at FCS’ facility at Frankfurt’s CargoCity Süd before […]

Lithuanian Airports review 2020: the year of the biggest challenges for aviation

20th January 2021

In 2020, 1.8 million people travelled through all three Lithuanian Airports, which is 72% less compared to 2019, and 30 thousand flights were served at the airports, which is 52% less compared to 2019. According to the forecasts of Lithuanian Airports, in 2021 the enterprise will manage to restore about half of the passenger traffic […]

Rome airports become world’s first to complete Airport Health Measures Audit Programme

12th January 2021

Rome Fiumicino and Rome Ciampino have become the world’s first airports to successfully complete ACI World’s Airport Health Measures Audit Programme, which has been developed in partnership with Bureau Veritas to support the airport industry’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic by addressing their specific risks and by reassuring passengers through an on-site audit. Both airports have […]