San Francisco International Airport (SFO) closed Runway 28L on September 7, 2019, for 20 days to construct a new base layer below the runway surface. Once the runway closed on Saturday construction crews immediately began the process of removing the existing runway layers to create a new base layer below the surface. The runway is […]
Glasgow Airport’s exclusive £1.6m Lomond Lounge welcomed its first passengers on Friday, 6th September. The plush facility lounge, which created 25 new jobs, is based airside in the departures area and will operate between 5am and 9pm. This is the fourth lounge facility to be based at Glasgow – the most of any Scottish airport – […]
Passengers travelling through Bristol Airport from Thursday 5 September will see a new awareness programme entitled Get On Board. The initiative will help raise awareness of the serious implications of disruptive behaviour at the Airport or on board an aircraft. Bristol Airport is already committed to the UK Aviation Code of Practice on Disruptive Passengers […]
A recently released video provides a timelapse view of the construction of the new Salt Lake International City in Utah. Salt Lake City International Airport in Utah serves more than 25 million passengers per year from facilities that were designed 50 years ago and intended to serve half as many travelers. A lot has changed […]
Sydney Airport has marked an historic milestone in the lead up to its Centenary, welcoming the arrival of its one billionth passenger. The billionth passenger, ten-year-old Katinka from the Blue Mountains, touched down with her Mum and five-year-old brother shortly after 10am this morning on Singapore Airlines flight SQ231. Sydney Airport CEO Geoff Culbert, who […]
For the third year running, Heathrow and the Department for International Trade’s (DIT) Exporting is GREAT campaign are inviting SMEs across the country to apply for 20 ‘World of Opportunity’ grants worth £2,000 each. The grants will support small businesses that are just beginning to export or help those companies that can export, but don’t. […]
Western Sydney Airport in Australia has begun the search for a construction contractor to build its terminal precinct. According to CEO Graham Millett, registrations of interest are expected from both Australian and global consortia. “Even in the context of an infrastructure boom, we’ve had a high level of interest from the market in each of […]
This video shows what we can expect from the new Terminal 2 at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru in India. Conceived by operator Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) as a terminal within a garden, and designed by architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the project’s first phase of construction is scheduled to be completed by March […]
Gatwick Airport has formally started the process to bring its existing Northern Runway into routine use by submitting a notice to the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) of its intention to prepare an application for development consent. This action establishes the ‘Gatwick Airport Northern Runway’ project on the PINS website and is the first step in the […]
Kempegowda International Airport, in Bengaluru, India, is to experiment with building its campus roads from waste plastic. The airport has received approximately 11 metric tons of waste plastic from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the administrative body responsible for civic amenities and infrastructural assets in the Greater Bangalore metropolitan area. Bangalore International Airport Limited […]
