NEW SYSTEMS TO RAPIDLY COOL AIRCRAFT PARKED AT DUBAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT’S CONCOURSE C
Dubai International Airport is installing new Pre-Conditioned Air (PCA) systems – capable of rapidly cooling wide-bodied aircraft up to the size of the A380...
ASIA-PACIFIC & MIDDLE EAST
CHRISTCHURCH AIRPORT TO BE TESTING GROUND FOR NEW AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
New Zealand’s first on-road testing of fully autonomous vehicles will change up a gear later this year with the inclusion of the first...
RECORD JANUARY TRAFFIC FIGURES FOR JORDAN’S QUEEN ALIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) welcomed 624,207 passengers in January – a healthy 8.2% upturn on the corresponding month a year ago....
QUEENSTOWN AIRPORT REPORTS “STRONG” HALF YEAR RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE
Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) has continued its upward growth trajectory, reporting a strong half-year result with a net profit after tax of NZ$8.8...
EMIRATES’ A380 FLEET TO GROW EVEN BIGGER FOLLOWING LATEST ORDER
Emirates yesterday signed a contract for 20 additional A380 aircraft and 16 options, firming up the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was announced...
NEW FIGURES REVEAL THE ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF NEW CHINESE ROUTES
The value of air routes to China make the news today with Sydney Airport revealing that its new Zhengzhou service will pump A$60...
F&B OPERATORS SOUGHT FOR NEW TERMINAL AT JEDDAH’S KING ABDULAZIZ INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Changi Airports Saudi Arabia (CASA), operator of Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA), today issued the first tranche of Request for Proposals (RFP)...
HONG KONG REFLECTS ON ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR AND OUTLINES PLANS FOR 2018
A record 72.9 million passengers and five million tonnes of cargo and airmail passed through Hong Kong International Airport in 2017. The annual...
INDUSTRY NEWS – GROWTH AND INNOVATION
Asia-Pacific Airports reports on the latest World Business Partner news from across the region. LOOKING GOOD! Bahrain International Airport has a new advertising...
RETIRING ACI ASIA-PACIFIC PRESIDENT KERRIE MATHER TO LEAVE ON JANUARY 31
Retiring managing director and CEO of Sydney Airport, Kerrie Mather, is to step down as president of ACI Asia-Pacific at the end of...
COMBATTING CYBER CRIME
Andy Wall, technical director of cyber security at Atkins, outlines five steps he believes airports can take to create safe and secure cyber...
GVK POWER & INFRASTRUCTURE SIGNS CONCESSION TO OPERATE MUMBAI’S NEW GATEWAY
GVK Power & Infrastructure has signed a concession agreement to operate India’s new international airport in Mumbai. GVK, which spearheads the consortium that...
