London Stansted has appointed Mace as the main contractor for the construction of its new £150 million Arrivals terminal. Work on the 39,000 square metre terminal is due to start in spring 2019 and is scheduled for completion in autumn 2020. The terminal is the flagship project in the airport’s £600 million transformation which will […]
Hicham Ayoun reports on the appointment of Martin Eurnekian as the new chair of the ACI World Governing Board and the unveiling of the organisation’s long-term vision for airport security. ACI World has announced the appointment of Martin Eurnekian as the new chair of the ACI World Governing Board. Eurnekian – the CEO of Corporación América […]
Burger King is to open an outlet at Edinburgh Airport as the Scottish gateway looks to expand the food and beverage options in its terminal. Burger King will open later this year, offering its famous Whoppers, fries and drinks to passengers in the departures area. In a first for the UK market, there will also […]
Hong Kong International Airport and Brussels Airport today announced the launch of an airport-to-airport (A2A) pharma corridor, offering services catering to the specific needs of pharmaceutical shipments. Spearheaded by the two airports and in collaboration with Pharma.Aero, the initiative aims to pioneer service offerings and standards that provide assurance in handling quality of the temperature-sensitive […]
Nice Côte d’Azur Airport has become one of the first airports in the world to announce its 2018 traffic figures, the French gateway handling a record 13.8 million passengers (+4.1%) last year. The airport says that its eighth successive year of growth has consolidated its status as France’s “second-largest airport platform”. It notes that the […]
Menzies Aviation is to expand its cargo operations in Australia, with the opening of two new cargo facilities at North Queensland’s Cairns Airport, and Melbourne Avalon Airport in Victoria. Menzies Aviation Cairns is a joint venture between Menzies Aviation and local aviation service provider, AT Group and will be ready for international cargo handling in […]
Joe Bates takes a closer look at a handful of airport development projects making headlines in the US in the final quarter of 2018. Skanska USA and LaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP) are celebrating the completion of the new eastern concourse at , the first major milestone in the $5.1 billion transformation of the terminal into […]
Travel experiences are among the most memorable we have, and airports can make themselves even more appealing to passengers by learning from the hospitality industry. Chris Radcliffe, head of interiors at UK-based architecture practice, maber, believes that airports of the future will have to be much smarter to compete for passengers, whose demands will not only include better […]
As well as being customer service champions and environmental pioneers, Asia-Pacific airports are also fast developing a reputation for being the most sleep friendly in the world, writes Joe Bates. According to the most recent passenger poll on the website SleepingInAirports.net, the most ‘sleep friendly’ airport in the world is Singapore Changi followed by Incheon, […]
Airport retail and F&B innovation was top of the agenda at the recent Trinity Forum in Shanghai. Asia-Pacific Airports looks back at some of the highlights. ACI World’s last big event of the year, The Trinity Forum, attracted over 500 delegates to Shanghai to address the theme of ‘The changing airport and travel retail commercial eco-system’. […]
Asia-Pacific Airports reports on some of the big stories to emerge from the Global Sustainable Aviation Summit in Geneva. Airports continue to do their bit to reduce aviation’s impact on the environment, with ACI revealing that a total of 246 airports now use its Airport Carbon Accreditation programme to manage and reduce their carbon footprint. […]
Spotlight on: Award winning airports Featured airport: Hyderabad-Rajiv Gandhi Event review: The Trinity Forum Plus: Innovative retail & Airport IT trends Read the online issue: click here View from the top Regional director, Patti Chau, provides her thoughts on an exciting and productive end to 2018 for ACI Asia-Pacific. Exciting times Airport retail and F&B innovation was top of the […]
