The first runway at Istanbul New Airport is ready for takeoff and landing. For the first time, runway number one, which is 3,750 meters long and 60 meters wide, has been lit up. INA is installing the world’s biggest and most sophisticated Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL), featuring 34,183 LED fixtures. Intelligent lighting makes the visual […]
8 new connections, including the possibility of a direct flight to Singapore – those are the main novelties of the most recent schedule, which will be in force during the summer season at Warsaw Chopin Airport. The schedule, which is in force since March 25th, contains 122 regular routes. The new season is for Chopin […]
Chopin Airport received today a certificate from the President of the Civil Aviation Authority authorizing the airport to perform landing operations in conditions of limited visibility for category III A on Runway 3 in the 33 landing direction. A certificate for ILS III A means that planes will be able to land at much weaker […]
daa in partnership with ESB has installed 268 solar panels on top of the airport’s reservoir system which will provide more than half of the reservoir’s annual energy requirements. The solar panels are connected directly to the airport’s reservoir system which provides 500 million litres of water – the equivalent of 200 Olympic sized swimming […]
HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and Dubai Air Navigation Services, affirmed that 2017 has been an exceptional and ground breaking year in the history of Dubai Air Navigation Services, revealing that the organisation has achieved three strategic projects that are of paramount significance to the Aviation sector […]
EUROCAE & IAOPA collaborate to include general aviation in development of standards EUROCAE and the International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA) formalized and signed agreements on March 26th concerning the inclusions of general aviation in the development of standards in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The collaboration between EUROCAE and IAOPA Europe […]
Figures published by London City Airport today reveal that last week (Monday 19th March to Sunday 25th March) was the busiest week ever in the history of the airport, eclipsing the 100,000 passenger mark for the first time. Over the seven days, a total of 101,336 passengers either departed from, or arrived to, London City […]
France is under a massive public sector strike on March 22, 2018. Teachers, rail workers and air-traffic controllers took the streets of every major cities to express their disagreement with Emmanuel Macron’s reforms. The consequences on the skies of France are pretty massive: the Direction générale de l’Aviation civile (DGAC), French civil aviation authority, has […]
There was no such February in the history of Warsaw Chopin Airport yet! In the second month of 2018, 1 million 60 thousand passengers traveled to or from Warsaw. A year earlier, the capital airport has handled 933 thousand passengers. It is an increase of 12.8 percent. It is worth noting that the last good […]
Gatwick’s 300 airside vehicles are stationary 90% of the time – as staff attend to aircraft and passengers – however a trial of electric-powered autonomous vehicles will soon see workers shuttled between popular locations on the airfield when it starts later this summer, the airport announced today. The trial is thought to be the first […]
