When travellers arrive at or depart from Brisbane Airport (BNE), they will soon experience an unprecedented digital currency airport experience. BNE in partnership with a number of terminal retailers is combining its community vision with innovation by working with TravelbyBit to bring decentralised block chain enabled payments into its terminal shopping. Travellers will soon be […]
The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners (BOAC) has authorized a US$336.5m contract to design and build three terminal cores as part of the Landside Access Modernization Program (LAMP) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in California. The terminal cores will be built in key locations at terminals 5, 6, 7 and the Tom Bradley […]
Heathrow Airport Limited has announced that Chris Garton will be joining as Chief Operating Officer in the spring. Until early last year, Chris was in the equivalent role at Dubai Airport, where he played a key role in growing the annual number of passengers served from 30 million to over 86 million, over a nine-year […]
Birmingham Airport has started a multi-million-pound programme of development works to improve the passenger journey through the airport terminal. The works include redeveloping the security processing area to provide more boarding card gates, a dedicated security preparation area and a refreshed waiting area with new flooring and lighting. Commenting on the investment, David Winstanley, COO […]
The planning process for Heathrow expansion is now firmly underway, as the airport today launches what is set to be one of the largest public consultations in the country’s history. Heathrow’s consultation is a major milestone in delivering an expanded airport – Europe’s largest privately funded infrastructure project, and the best way to keep the […]
London Gatwick ended 2017 with its busiest December on record, as 3.2 million passengers travelled through the airport during the festive month, an increase of 1.5% year-on-year. 45.6 million passengers used the airport in 2017, +5.2% on 2016. After a year of continued booming growth in Gatwick’s long-haul connections, with new routes including Singapore, Rwanda, […]
Environmental charges at Heathrow are set to increase by 7% as the airport seeks to minimise its impact on local communities. From 1st January 2018, airlines will be incentivised to deploy their newest aircraft at Heathrow – making the airport cleaner and quieter for our local communities. The introduction of the higher environmental charge forms […]
European airports wrapped up the year with record passenger numbers. Several hubs have announced reaching their milestones, with Paris Airports, including the second busiest airport in Europe by passenger numbers in 2016, exceeding 100 million pax earlier in December 2017. Paris Aéroport, including Paris-Orly and Paris Charles de Gaulle airports, announced a “symbolic threshold of […]
The board for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has approved US$496m for major landside and airside projects as part of the US$2.3bn Terminal A redevelopment program at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. The board’s decision marks a significant milestone for the redevelopment program, which will deliver a 33-gate, […]
Fraport Greece, a subsidiary of German airport operator Fraport, has unveiled its plans for the redevelopment of Kos Hippocrates International Airport in Greece. The event was attended by the island’s government representatives and local stakeholders, who discussed a range of issues that concern the future of the airport and the development of the island’s tourism […]
