Travel Retail Domodedovo (TRD) has opened two shops at Strigino International Airport in Russia. The shops are operated under the ‘Heinemann Duty Free and Travel Value’ brand, a joint venture between Gebr Heinemann and its local partner Greenway. “We are very proud to partner once again with ‘Airports of the Regions’ – the leading airport holding […]
Qatar’s Hamad International Airport, one of the world’s newest gateways having only opened in 2014, is to expand its concourses to raise its capacity to 60 million passengers per annum. The expansion project will feature a spectacular 10,000sqm indoor tropical garden in a central concourse as well as a 268sqm water feature which will be […]
Airports located in ACI’s Asia-Pacific region have once again dominated Sleeping in Airports’ annual survey for the best gateways to use, and take a nap in, in 2019, with Singapore Changi and Incheon taking the top spots. According to the most recent passenger poll on the website SleepingInAirports.net, Tokyo Narita, Osaka-Kansai, Taiwan Taoyuan and Hong Kong […]
Dublin Airport enjoyed its busiest ever September, handling more than three milion passengers (+4%) during the month for the first time in its 79 year history. Passenger numbers to and from continental Europe increased by 6% as almost 1.7 million passengers travelled to and from European destinations during the month. Almost 828,000 passengers travelled to […]
Ghana Airports Company Limited has signed a five year deal with SITA to manage and support all airport passenger processing, baggage management, and airport operations systems across Kotoka International Airport’s newly commissioned Terminal 3. The agreement, an extension to the Accra’s gateway’s existing deal with the technology solutions provider, follows the successful deployment of SITA’s […]
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has issued BBB+/Stable credit ratings on Guam International Airport Authority’s (GIAA) General Revenue Bonds. The move follows Moody’s Investors Service’s decision to assign a Baa2 ratings to the senior General Revenue Bonds 2019 Series A (AMT) ($20.01 million) and 2019 Series B (Taxable) ($20.6 million) that GIAA – the operator of […]
Ideas typically come from pain points. We all have them. I wish I could invent a device to fold my laundry, writes Winnipeg Richardson International Airport’s vice president for aviation marketing, Scott Marohn. Still haven’t made that machine yet. But that’s for another day. I am going to stick to air service development here. So, what was […]
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 […]
