Brussels Airport Company will be investing EUR 100 million in ultramodern logistics buildings. This investment will further strengthen the crucial position of Brussels Airport as the 2nd most important logistics cluster in our country, serving the top players in the aviation industry, including Kuehne + Nagel, Swissport, Dnata and Brinks, and many hundreds of other […]
A passenger plane from Bangladesh crashed and burst into flames as it landed Monday at the Kathmandu airport in Nepal, killing at least a dozen people, officials and witnesses said. The plane was identified in local media as S2-AGU, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, but this has not been officially confirmed. The twin propeller […]
Chinese airports have seen 1.15 billion passengers in 2017. It is 12.9% more than 2016. Cargo volume also increased dramatically, with 16.7 million tons transported this year, a 7.1% raise compared to the previous year. The Chinese market for aviation is the fastest-growing in the world. The national company Air China alone has had 12% […]
First Market for Transforming Agent-Airline Settlements The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Norway became the first market to implement the New Generation of IATA Settlement Systems (NewGen ISS). NewGen ISS was adopted by the Passenger Agency Conference (PAConf) in November 2017. It represents the most extensive and ambitious modernization of the IATA Billing […]
Airports Authority of India (AAI) has opened an Airport Operations Control Center (AOCC) and a help desk at Goa International Airport, as part of the authority’s efforts to improve passenger facilitation at its airports. Goa is the 12th AIA airport to have an AOCC. The center will provide on flight information displays real-time flight information […]
France has finally renounced the plans to construct the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport, while announcing plans to modernize the existing Nantes-Atlantique airport, develop the Rennes-Saint-Jacques airport and rail infrastructure in the West of France. The airport’s construction was contested by activists from the ZAD (Zone to Defend) movement, which had protested the plans for more than a […]
Heathrow had a flying start to the year, as the UK’s only hub airport welcomed 5.8 million passengers in January Passenger volumes were up 1.1% on 2017 and January marked the 15th consecutive record month for Heathrow. Domestic flights were a key driver of growth, with UK flights up 6.9% in the first month of […]
London City Airport has been closed after a World War Two bomb was found nearby in the River Thames. The airport will be shut all day and all flights cancelled, affecting up to 16,000 passengers, a spokeswoman said. The bomb was discovered on Sunday at George V Dock during pre-planned work at the airport in […]
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) has engaged architectural firm HOK to design a regional transit center and passenger processing facility at Toronto Pearson International Airport, Ontario. The GTAA estimates the first phase of the new facility could be in place by the mid-2020s. In its most recent draft masterplan, the GTAA forecasts that Toronto […]
Gatwick Airport has partnered with the Gatwick Aviation Museum and the Royal Aeronautical Society to host a year-long series of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) based events for local primary schools. In the first of the year-long series of educational ‘Cool Aeronautics’ events, taking place at the Gatwick Aviation Museum, 71 students from Southgate […]
