Tags: Airport News

Record infrastructure funding for Kelowna

Kelowna International Airport in British Columbia, Canada, has announced the next phase of its capital development program. Kelowna City Council has approved C$67.3m (US$51.2m) for the construction of the airport’s largest expansion to date. In addition, as part of its Soaring Beyond 2.5 Million Passengers program, Kelowna will make the biggest financial investment in its […]

Ground broken on Charlotte Douglas expansion

Nashville-based Gresham Smith has marked the groundbreaking of the Terminal Lobby Expansion project at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) in North Carolina. The expansion will transform the terminal, creating a welcoming space and improving operations. Designed by Gresham Smith and DAS Architecture, the project comprises a 370,000ft2 (34,375m2 ) expansion, a 150,000ft2 (13,935m2 ) canopy […]

Good news for electric car drivers! Over 60 more charging stations at Helsinki Airport

Finavia now has 95 charging stations for electric hybrid cars at Helsinki Airport. Next year, when the new car park is completed, there will be additional charging stations at the airport’s parking facilities. Good environmental work is part of Finavia’s corporate responsibility. Our Sum of Good Things series highlights details of Finavia’s responsibility work. This […]

Manchester Airport reveals progress made on £1bn transformation programme

Manchester Airport have revealed the progress made on its £1bn transformation, with several months to go until it opens its new “super terminal.” The UK’s third largest airport also released new images and a video to showcase what passengers using the new facilities can expect, when they start using the new terminal from next summer. […]

Liverpool Airport Closed After Private Jet Comes Off Runway

Liverpool John Lennon Airport has been closed since this morning following an incident involving a private jet. The airport confirmed on their website that there was an incident at around 6am this morning when a private jet came off the runway after landing. The runway is expected to be closed until late this afternoon whilst […]

Overseas visitor numbers set to top 1.5 million at Bristol Airport

Bristol Airport is on track to handle more than 1.5 million journeys by passengers from overseas, according to analysis of data from the Civil Aviation Authority’s annual Passenger Survey. The biggest market for visitors remains Ireland, accounting for just under 19 per cent of overseas passengers flying in and out of Bristol Airport. Spain (16 […]

Heathrow Primary students un-wrap Christmas at the airport

Heathrow has undergone a festive transformation, as students from Heathrow Primary deck the halls with over 500 hand crafted bulbuls and help switch on close to a kilometre of Christmas lights. The UK’s busiest airport is set to sparkle this Christmas welcoming over 6.5 million passengers in December alone. To celebrate the official opening of […]

Brandenburg to open in 2020: update

The much-delayed Berlin Brandenburg Airport is to open on October 31, 2020, its supervisory and management boards have confirmed. Scheduled flights will end at Berlin Tegel one week later, on November 8, flight operations having been relocated in three stages over the course of the week. At a meeting between the two boards, the management […]

AIPUT secures pre-let to expand its dnata City East air cargo facility at Heathrow

Aberdeen Standard Investments’ AIPUT fund (Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust) has signed a pre-let agreement with its long-standing customer, dnata, promoting the continued growth of its industry-leading air cargo facility at dnata City East, located immediately south of Heathrow Airport. The proposed 115,000 sq ft facility has been designed to operate in conjunction with a […]