Los Angeles International Airport is set to open LAX-it at the end of the month, a new “amenity rich” centralised area where departing passengers can pick-up taxis and ride app services. It hopes that the new area will make for a better experience for passengers seeking a cab ride away from LAX and help ease […]
Miami International Airport yesterday unveiled its new state-of-the-art, fully automated baggage handling system to the world. The Florida gateway’s new $324-million system, funded in part by a $101.2-million grant from the TSA, doubles the speed and efficiency of baggage screening and delivery for flights in MIA’s Central and South terminals. “This innovative system is a huge step forward in MIA’s […]
Ed Balls, the UK’s former Shadow Chancellor, gave the keynote speech at Gatwick’s Transport Forum on Friday. The event is designed to create an integrated approach to transport provision across the region and around 150 transport service providers and manufacturers, local authority transport officers and community representatives attended. The audience received updates on major projects, […]
VINCI today launched work to upgrade the runways and runway lighting system at Toulon Hyères Airport in France. VINCI Airports began operating the airport in 2015 under a 25-year French government concession awarded by the Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile (DGAC) and the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. As one of France’s three combined civil and […]
Van Don International Airport in Quang Ninh Province in Vietnam has been named ‘Asia’s Leading New Airport 2019’ at the World Travel Awards (WTA) Asia & Oceania. Developed by the Sun Group, and completed in late 2018, Vietnam’s first privately built commerical gateway is the first airport in the country to receive the accolade. “This is a huge source of pride […]
VIEW THE ISSUE HERE Theme: IT Innovation Airport report: Bogotá Special report: SMART Airports review Plus: People-friendly design & branding Airport World editor, Joe Bates, reflects on the enabling power of new technology at the same time as not forgetting the importance of the human touch in air travel. The IT crowd If I am being perfectly honest here, given the choice, I […]
Meet, Pepper, Christchurch Airport’s new 120cm tall robot that can apparently recognise faces and basic human emotions, respond to requests made on the touch screen on its chest, and hold a conversation! According to the New Zealand gateway, Pepper – who has previously been on duty at Munich Airport in Germany and Oakland in the […]
With the the exception of a handful of airports in Greece and Bulgaria, the Fraport Group’s global airport portfolio have all registered an increase in passenger traffic in the first nine months of 2019. Fraport, which released its global year-to-date traffic figures today, reveals that 54.1 million passengers (+2.3%) passed through Frankfurt Airport (FRA) in […]
A new White Paper shows that a customer-centric focus is driving change and innovation at US airports, write KONE’s Dan Brooks and Kevin Wigley. The average US airport is now over 40 years old and with makeovers not easy for many, more than a few of them are experiencing something akin to a midlife crisis. […]
The F&B offerings at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) just got a little better with the opening of three new concepts – local favourites ‘Franktuary’ and the ‘Melt Shop’ and the global success ‘Joe & The Juice’. “We have emphasised ‘creating a sense of place’ here at the airport by adding local brands to our concessions, […]
The latest global news from ACI’s World Business Partners. Pizza, anyone? Lightening fast pizza operator, Blaze Pizza, has opened an outlet at John Wayne Airport’s Terminal B/C courtesy of a new partnership between global restaurateur, HMSHost, and partner S&C Robinson Enterprise. The Californian gateway notes that the addition of Blaze Pizza expands the dining options […]
A 4.7% rise in transfer passengers, led by travellers from Poland, ensured that 2.8 million passengers (+0.4%) passed through Copenhagen Airport in September. The total meant that it was the busiest September on record for Denmark’s capital city gateway. “More passengers choosing to fly via Copenhagen rather than via Amsterdam, Frankfurt or London strengthens our […]
