Tags: Airport News

New Multi Modal Facility at O’Hare International Airport Opens

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today joined the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) to cut the ribbon on a new state-of-the-art ground transportation center serving O’Hare International Airport. The new Multi Modal Facility (MMF) directs rental car operations, public parking and other modes of ground transit into one centralized location to improve connectivity for travelers at O’Hare. […]

Development of a smart city concept at Munich Airport

Munich Airport and the renowned Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have reached an agreement to work together in the development of the LabCampus Innovation Center at Munich Airport. Plans to launch the LabCampus future project–an innovation lab on the airport campus that will promote cooperation between companies and across industry […]

UK Government considers crackdown on airport drinking in bid to tackle disorder

The government is considering changing the rules at terminals, which could potentially mean an end to early morning drinking. Drinking at airports could be restricted in an attempt to cut incidents of disorder fuelled by booze. The government has launched a consultation on changing the rules around the sale of alcohol at airports in England […]

Istanbul New Airport officially opened by President Erdogan

Istanbul New Airport – Turkey’s new €7.5bn (US$8.5bn) flagship airport – was officially opened on October 29th by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, following four years of construction and nearly two years of operational readiness and airport transfer (ORAT) preparations. Capable of serving up to 90 million passengers annually, Istanbul New Airport has the potential […]

Heathrow extends its Chinese network with new services to Asian Silicon Valley

Heathrow has welcomed the first UK flight arriving directly from the Chinese economic powerhouse and megacity of Shenzhen. Operated by Shenzhen Airlines, this thrice weekly service will transport up to 96,408 passengers a year and 3,120 tonnes of annual exports and imports to the city known as China’s tech hub. Recently, Lonely Planet has ranked […]

Record passenger numbers at Heathrow in early 2018

An all-time record of 60.5 million passengers have travelled through Heathrow so far in 2018. The airport also recorded robust financial performance, as revenues climbed 2.3 per cent to £2,211 million on the back of higher demand to fly and strong retail spend. The results will support an additional £555 million of investment into the […]

Heathrow offers free landing charges for a year to UK’s first electric plane

In a world airport first, Heathrow has announced that the first electric-hybrid aircraft will not have to pay Heathrow’s landing charges for an entire year when it is put into regular service at the UK’s international hub. In celebration of Green GB Week and inspired by the first flight short electric-powered flight carrying two passengers […]

AirBridgeCargo Airlines to set up its European hub at Liege Airport

Liege Airport and AirBridgeCargo Airlines have signed an historic lease agreement for 10 years. This arrangement will bring the scale of cooperation between two companies to the next level of development, boosting air cargo volumes of ABC to/from the airport and placing Liege Airport among the top 5 cargo airports in Europe by 2020. The […]

MAG-led consortium looks to operate and develop Sofia Airport in Bulgaria

Manchester Airports Group (MAG), the operator of Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports in the UK, is looking to expand its portfolio by submitting a tender to operate Sofia Airport in Bulgaria. MAG’s bid will be supported by Chinese construction giant BCEG, which is already working with MAG in Manchester. According to MAG, a […]

DXB sets new record with 8.37 million customers in August

Dubai has 8.37 million reasons to celebrate after that number of customers passed through the world’s #1 international airport Dubai International (DXB) in August, setting a new global standard and surpassing the airport’s former record of 8.23 million set in August 2017. August marks the second consecutive month that DXB has crossed the eight million […]