Lima’s Jorge ChĂĄvez International Airport will soon have a new duty free partner in Lagardère Travel Retail after the two signed off on a pioneering profit-share agreement in Paris yesterday. Global airport operator, Fraport, is responsible for operating and developing the Peruvian gateway through subsidiary, Lima Airport Partners (LAP). Both LAP and Lagardère Travel Retail […]
ACI World today released a new tool to assist airports in planning for the return of passengers to their terminals as hopes grow that aviation’s recovery from COVID will gain momentum in the second half of the year. The new Static Capacity Tool â developed by ACI World Business Partner (WBP), Redwater Consulting Group â […]
How are Europeâs airports faring one year and counting on from the outbreak of COVID-19? ACI EUROPEâs director general, Olivier Jankovec, provides a progress report. Although far from alone in suffering from the impact of COVID-19, the past 17 months has been a period like no other for Europeâs airports, which have faced a near […]
Collins Aerospace has completed deployment of its ARINC SelfPass biometrics solution at Tokyo Haneda, one of the busiest airports in Asia-Pacific. The technology will help streamline passenger journeys through Haneda by reducing the need for physical interaction with staff and bottlenecks at multiple passenger touchpoints. âOur âFace Expressâ system will allow passengers to efficiently proceed […]
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) establishes a new model for hiring local, diverse teams to work on the upgrade of LAX and Van Nuys airports, write Chris Robert, Jon Philips and Anne Fletcher. As the aviation industry begins to awaken after a tumultuous year, we can come back stronger than we were before, particularly when […]
Salvador Bahia Airport has become the first gateway in the northeast region of Brazil to be granted Airport Health Accreditation status by ACI for its anti-COVID measures. Airport Health Accreditation (AHA) celebrates and promotes the best sanitary practices in the airport industry. In order to receive the accreditation, Salvador Bahia Airport underwent a voluntary assessment by the AHA programme, […]
Chief development officer, Bernardo Gogna, provides an update on Los Angeles International Airportâs $14.5 billion Capital Improvement Program and the recent opening of two key new facilities. As Los Angeles gears up to welcome the world over the course of the next seven years as the host city for Super Bowl LVI and the 2028 […]
LaGuardia Airportâs Terminal B has been awarded LEED v4 Gold certification for the completed phases of the new terminal, which encompasses the Arrivals & Departures Hall, Eastern Concourse, Eastern Pedestrian Bridge and the Central Heating and Refrigeration Plant. Operator, LaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP), notes that it makes LaGuardia Terminal B the first airport project in […]
Munich Airport subsidiary, Munich Airport International (MAI), is to partner with Atlanta-based Citiri to offer digital operational readiness and airport transfer (ORAT) services to airport operators and infrastructure developers across the globe. MAI claims that by combining its knowhow and experience of helping airports open new facilities with Citiriâs ORAT management platform software, the partners […]
It may not be one of the UK’s better known airports, but Doncaster Sheffield (DSA) has some big ambitions, and its efforts to boost its route network have been boosted by TUI’s decision to expand its operations from the gateway next summer. The package holiday giant has announced that it will launch services to Faro […]
Domestic routes, traditionally the undervalued siblings of more lucrative international services, are leading aviationâs fight back from COVID. But how long is this likely to last? OAGâs senior analyst, John Grant, investigates. The last eighteen months have been the most challenging in the history of commercial aviation, balance sheets have been wrecked, demand shattered, and […]
Cork Airport has awarded the main construction contract for the rebuilding of the airportâs main runway to Colas Limited, which has extensive experience of completing similar runway projects across the world. Ireland’s Minister of State, Hildegarde Naughton, visited the airport today to meet with airport managing director, Niall MacCarthy, and Colas Ireland CEO, Gearoid Lohan, […]
