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London City Airport records busiest week ever with over 100,000 passengers and prepares for Easter getaway traffic

Figures published by London City Airport today reveal that last week (Monday 19th March to Sunday 25th March) was the busiest week ever in the history of the airport, eclipsing the 100,000 passenger mark for the first time. Over the seven days, a total of 101,336 passengers either departed from, or arrived to, London City […]

London City Airport awards BAM Nuttall major contract for concrete deck extension

London City Airport has awarded a contract to BAM Nuttall for a new 75,000 m2 concrete deck extension. The deck is an important first stage of construction, as part of the £480m City Airport Development Programme, supporting new infrastructure including aircraft stands, a parallel taxiway and a world-class passenger terminal extension. The Development Programme will […]

French ATC on strike, European airports affected

France is under a massive public sector strike on March 22, 2018. Teachers, rail workers and air-traffic controllers took the streets of every major cities to express their disagreement with Emmanuel Macron’s reforms. The consequences on the skies of France are pretty massive: the Direction générale de l’Aviation civile (DGAC), French civil aviation authority, has […]

London City Airport wins Skytrax award for Best Airport in the World under 5m passengers

London City Airport has been named the best airport of its size in the world and the 28th best overall airport on the planet. The recognition came at the Skytrax World Airport Awards 2018 on Wednesday 21 March, where the airport won the Best Airport category for airports handling up to 5 million passengers per […]

Changi Airport is named the world’s best airport for the sixth consecutive year by international air travellers

Changi Airport Singapore achieved great success at the 2018 World Airport Awards, being voted by air travellers as the World’s Best Airport for the sixth consecutive year. This is the first time in the history of the awards that an airport has won this prestige title for six consecutive years. Changi Airport was also the […]

Heathrow Terminal 2 named World’s Best

Terminals 2 and 5 top lists of best terminals in the 2018 Skytrax World Airport Awards   Heathrow also awarded ‘Best airport in Western Europe’ and ‘World’s Best Airport Shopping’  Awards follow year of both record-breaking passenger numbers and satisfaction scores Passengers from around the world have once again voted for Heathrow to win major accolades […]

Gatwick to be first airport in the world to trial autonomous vehicles to shuttle staff across the airfield

Gatwick’s 300 airside vehicles are stationary 90% of the time – as staff attend to aircraft and passengers – however a trial of electric-powered autonomous vehicles will soon see workers shuttled between popular locations on the airfield when it starts later this summer, the airport announced today. The trial is thought to be the first […]

Brussels Airport invests EUR 100 million in logistics buildings

Brussels Airport Company will be investing EUR 100 million in ultramodern logistics buildings. This investment will further strengthen the crucial position of Brussels Airport as the 2nd most important logistics cluster in our country, serving the top players in the aviation industry, including Kuehne + Nagel, Swissport, Dnata and Brinks, and many hundreds of other […]