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WFS Fast Tracks Sustainability Across Cargo and Ground Handling Operations at 7 Airports in Spain

Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) cargo and ground handling operations in Spain are helping to spearhead the group’s ‘Our Sustainable Flight Path’ programme with a series of initiatives and investments to significantly reduce emissions at its 7 airport stations across the country. WFS’ GSE fleet in Spain is now 89% electric for all its cargo handling […]

Pegasus Airlines closes the first ever sustainability-linked aircraft-secured term loan with Ex-Im support

Pegasus Airlines closed the first ever sustainability-linked aircraft-secured term loan (“SLL”), which was guaranteed by UK Export Finance for the financing of ten new Airbus A321neo aircraft. The transaction was led by Societe Generale, acting as global arranger, sustainability structurer, facility agent and security trustee. The highly innovative transaction is remarkable in several respects: it […]

Silk Way West Airlines signs air cargo transport memorandum with Nippon Express

Silk Way West Airlines and Nippon Express Holdings have signed an Air Cargo Memorandum of Understanding to offer enhanced solutions to their customers and to respond more flexibly to changing supply chains. This agreement strengthens Silk Way West Airlines’ presence in the Japanese market whilst helping Nippon Express Holdings to expand its business globally by […]

ACI EUROPE urges Walloon Government to ensure the future of Liège Airport

At meetings attended by ACI EUROPE this week in Namur with Mr. Elio di Rupo, Minister-President of Wallonia and Mr. Adrien Dolimont, Minister in charge of Finance and Airports, ACI EUROPE Director General Olivier Jankovec called upon the Walloon Government to ensure the future of Liège Airport and its contribution to the region’s economy by […]

At Guanacaste airport, passengers will now be able to charge their cell phones while pedaling

Everywhere VINCI Airports operates airports worldwide, electricity consumption reduction is a key objective to make the environmental transition a success. In Costa Rica, passengers at Guanacaste Airport who want to charge their cell phones before their flight will be able to do it with stations generating their own energy. The airport installed fixed tables in […]

ACI calls on regulators to support the economic sustainability of airports for the benefit of travellers and communities

Airports Council International (ACI) World today calls on regulators to support the economic sustainability of airports as social and economic engines of communities worldwide and for the benefit of the travelling public.   The call to action supports the recent ACI World Resolution Restoring Economic Equilibrium that urges governments to acknowledge the changed risk profile […]

VINCI Airports and WFS have launched sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at Toulon Hyères airport

VINCI Airports, operator of Toulon Hyères airport, and WFS, holder of the airport’s fuelling contract, are launching a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) service available to commercial and business aviation companies operating at the airport. The fuels will be distributed in a 30% blend with conventional kerosene. To distribute these fuels, VINCI Airports and WFS have […]

Travelex announces major new store launches and contract wins across ANZ region

Leading FX supplier returns to 100 trading stores across ANZ, whilst extending key contracts with airports and New Zealand’s House of Travel Travelex, the market leading foreign exchange brand in Australia and New Zealand, today announces the opening of a series of new stores and the extension of key contracts and partnerships across the ANZ […]

VINCI Airports’ French airports reach higher levels of the ACA-Airport Carbon Accreditation program

VINCI Airports’ decarbonization plan took a new step forward this year with most of the network’s French airports obtaining higher levels of “ACA – Airport Carbon Accreditation”. ACA is a global benchmark program that evaluates the decarbonization of airports and their contribution to the global “Net Zero Carbon Emission” trajectory for aviation [1]. Nantes Atlantique, […]

AeroVisto and VARTAN.AERO announces joint service offer for business and private jet aviation customers

AeroVisto and VARTAN.AERO are starting a close cooperation and will soon offer business and private jet aviation customers a unique service: the 360°CabinService. VARTAN.AERO and the AeroVisto Group have jointly developed a service offering that will significantly optimize the processes involved in interior refurbishment projects in business and private jet aviation. The 360°CabinService includes a […]