Tags: Airport News

Kansas City’s New Terminal Seven Baggage Carousel Installation Underway

The first of the Kansas City International Airport New Terminal’s seven baggage carousels is under construction in the international arrivals area. As this carousel progresses, work continues on the remainder of the more than two miles of baggage handling system conveyors, including conveyor testing taking place this week. Completion of the new terminal is estimated […]

Groundforce Portugal renews its Management System Certification

Groundforce Portugal’s Management System was once again recognized by APCER (Portuguese Association for Certification) with the normative reference ISO 9001:2015. Groundforce Portugal is ISO 9001 – Quality Management certified in all its stations – Lisbon, Porto, Faro and Madeira. This certification regulates the best market practices in Service Quality Management, assuring that Groundforce’ s operation […]

Travizory installs the world’s first health biometric corridor in Seychelles

Travizory Border Security has installed a cutting-edge biometric corridor for traveler screening in the Republic of Seychelles, to guarantee contactless and secure travel for all air arrivals. The launch of a biometric corridor for health travel screening at Seychelles International Airport, makes the Seychelles only the second country in the world after the UAE, and […]

Passenger numbers continue to grow at Lithuanian Airports as Kaunas Airport tops pre-pandemic flight traffic

In November 2021, more than 308 thousand passengers were served at Lithuanian Airports, while in the same period in 2020 the number of 43 thousand passengers served at the airports was recorded. According to aviation experts, Kaunas Airport is namely the airport at which an exclusively active period of recovery can be recently noticed. According […]

Consumer demand and cost of sea-freight drives growth in air cargo at East Midlands Airport

Aviation Minister, Robert Courts MP, described East Midlands Airport (EMA) as “a key facilitator of UK trade”, during a visit as the gateway gears-up for a record-breaking festive freight operation. The Minister visited EMA’s cargo operation yesterday evening, one of the airport’s busiest nights of the year in the run-up to Christmas. More than one […]

AirBridgeCargo Airlines extends handling partnership with Frankfurt Cargo Services

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has renewed its cargo handling contract at Frankfurt/Main Airport with Frankfurt Cargo Services (FCS), a subsidiary of Worldwide Flight Services (WFS). FCS, the largest independent cargo hander at the airport, has served AirBridgeCargo since 2008, and the new contract extension reflects the successful and growing partnership between the two companies. ABC currently […]

Exeter Airport appoints Managing Director

Exeter Airport has announced the appointment as Stephen Wiltshire as Managing Director. Stephen, 47, has been Operations Director at Exeter for the last 12 years and before that was operations director at Blackpool Airport for six years. He started his career as an engineering apprentice with British Aerospace at Filton near Bristol, where he is […]

Copenhagen Airport Acknowledges WFS’s Latest Expansion as Enabling ‘Future Airfreight Growth’

Copenhagen Airport has acknowledged Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) latest investment to expand its cargo handling facilities as enabling ‘future airfreight growth’ for the airport and its airline clients. WFS is the largest cargo handler in Copenhagen, supporting 31 airlines with flights to and from the Danish capital. It also provides cargo handling services for a […]

Ile-de-France Region launch first trials dedicated to new urban air mobility

Paris Region through Choose Paris Region, Groupe ADP and RATP Group inaugurated the test centre dedicated to new sustainable urban air mobility at the Pontoise – Cormeilles-en-Vexin airfield, in the presence of French Minister of Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari. The inauguration signals the launch of the first trials in real conditions for eVTOLs – electric Vertical […]

InMotion store opens at Glasgow Airport

A brand-new store with exclusive brands and latest technology has opened at Glasgow Airport. InMotion, the market-leading technology retailer in travel locations, owned by WHSmith, has  opened its new store at Scotland’s largest charter hub today (Thursday, November, 25). Further to WHSmith’s recent announcement that it has won all 30 technology stores across UK airports, […]