Global airport operator Fraport AG with interests in airport across Europe, Asia and South America is selling its 10% stake in Delhi’s Indira’s Gandhi International Airport (DEL). Under the agreement signed today (September 9), Fraport is selling its entire stake in DEL operator, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), to its majority owner, GMR Airports Infrastructure […]
The new Terminal 1-A at Santiago’s Arturo Benítez International Airport has been inaugurated by the President of Chile, Gabriel Boric. Other VIPs at the airport to celebrate the milestone occasion included Chile’s Minister of Defence, Maya Fernández; Minister of Public Works, Jessica López; and Minister of Agriculture, Esteban Valenzuela. The expansion of T1 has added […]
ACI World Business Partner, Copenhagen Optimization, has entered the South American market with the implementation of its virtual queuing technology at Montevideo’s Carrasco International Airport (MVD) in Uruguay. The service, which allows passengers to reserve a specified time for security checks to help them pass through security more quickly and efficiently, also marks the first […]
New long-haul routes and strong demand for travel saw 19.9 million passengers travelling through London Gatwick in the first half of this year. The continued collaboration with partners and the hard work of front-line colleagues has supported London Gatwick’s continued recovery and delivered a successful start to the year, the airport said today when publishing […]
Mace has been appointed as delivery partner by King Salman International Airport Development Company (KSIADC) to oversee the planning and construction for its airport development programme in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The global consultants and construction experts, working alongside KSIADC that is owned by Saudi’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), will lead the full range of delivery […]
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is the first airport in the United States to operate a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Centralized Examination Station (CES) located on the secure side of an airport. This innovative set-up, which previously has taken place outside of a secure airfield environment, expedites the direct transfer of cargo from […]
London’s Heathrow Airport is set for its busiest ever summer after handling close to eight million passengers in July. The total, which saw it hold on to its status as Europe’s busiest airport in 2024, included three weeks when it handled in excess of 1.8 million passengers despite never previously welcoming that many people in […]
Liege Airport in Belgium recorded its seventh consecutive month of cargo growth in July in terms of aircraft movements and freight volumes. It handled a total of 2,259 cargo flights and 81,474 tons of cargo in July, healthy upturns of 18% and 17% on the same month a year ago. Based on ACI figures for […]
Airport operator, Fraport, enjoyed an impressive first six months of the year, enjoying a 13% rise in revenues and a 7.2% upturn in passenger numbers across it global network. Its half-year figures, released today, show that it handled 74.1 million travellers across its actively-managed aviation gateways during the first half of 2024 (ending June 30). […]
More than three million passengers passed through Copenhagen Airport in July making it its busiest ever month. A total of 3.18 million passengers used the Danish gateway in July, the highest number in CPH’s 99 year history and 13% more than in the same month a year ago. The previous passenger record for a single […]
An impressive two million passengers passed through Cagliari Airport between April and July this year cementing its status as Sardinia’s busiest gateway. The airport is currently served by 20 airlines that between them operate 81 routes to 68 destinations across Italy and the surrounding region. It notes that it set a new record in July […]
Qatar’s Hamad International Airport (DOH) today released its traffic figures for the first half of 2024, describing the year-on-year upturn in passengers, cargo and aircraft movements as “exceptional growth”. In facts and figures, during in the first half of 2024, passengers numbers increased by 25% over the same period last year, while aircraft movement soared […]
