FEATURES
SSP Group has opened Flax & Soda, a new casual dining restaurant celebrating the best of Northern Ireland as part of Belfast International Airport’s £100 million investment programme. Located in the centre of the airport’s transformed Departures Lounge, Flax & Soda is a 280-cover space offering a flexible, all-day dining experience tailored to a wide […]
TAV Airports has announced €361 million consolidated revenue for the first quarter of 2026, during which time it saw passenger numbers rise by 7% across its global airport network. The company welcomed 10.4 million international and 8.6 domestic passengers across its portfolio of airports between January 1 and March 31. CEO, Serkan Kaptan, enthused: “The […]
Edinburgh Airport continues to be a key asset for Scotland, delivering £2.7 billion of economic value and supporting almost 44,000 jobs in 2025. The figures, revealed today in a new report by BiGGAR Economics, shows the airport’s contribution has grown significantly since 2019, driven by rising passenger numbers, expanding international connectivity and increased in-vestment from […]
Amsterdam Schiphol is to introduce a temporary 10% discount on its airport charges to help its airlines cover the cost of soaring fuel prices due to the current conflict in the Middle East. The airport notes that airline costs “have risen unexpectedly and sharply as a result of high kerosene prices”. The Schiphol Group, said: […]
Phu Quoc International Airport is undergoing a major transformation to become one of Asia-Pacific’s first fully self-service, biometrically enabled aviation hubs, capable of handling up to 24 million passengers annually from 2027. Backed by Sun Group and powered by SITA’s end-to-end passenger processing technology, the new Terminal 2 will enable a seamless, fully automated airport […]
Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) has extended its International Remote Baggage Screening (IRBS) service to two additional US gateway cities — Detroit and Minneapolis. As a result, minimum connecting times at both airports is expected to be reduced by at least 20 minutes as it removes the mandatory re-screening step that had long frustrated transit […]
Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), in partnerships with Lyft and Uber, has today launched a new scheduled urban shuttle service at Boston Logan International Airport. It is hoped that the new service, where users book a spot on a bus instead of individual vehicles, will offer travellers a more affordable, predictable, and efficient way to get […]
The aviation industry likes to talk about seamless travel, but for many passengers, that promise still ends at the border, writes Valour Consultancy’s John Devlin. Even as airports continue to modernise check-in, security and boarding – often at different speeds and with varying degrees of success – a single friction point at immigration can undo […]
SITA’s 2025 Air Transport IT Insights report finds that, while the air transport industry invested a record $50.8 billion in technology in 2025, a common obstacle is the fact that data still doesn’t flow freely between systems and partners. It argues that the cost of this data co-ordination gap is higher than ever now that […]
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) is to trial autonomous wheelchairs in its Warren Cleage Evans Terminal. The pilot programme – a collaboration between Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA) and Unifi – is designed to provide support to customers who may have difficulty walking long distances or navigating independently throughout the airport terminal. The devices […]
Christchurch Airport believes that it delivered “a stellar summer season” that firmly cemented its place as the South Island’s key international gateway to the world. And it is hard to disagree with the assessment as international visitor numbers soared by 22% as a total of 3.1 million passengers passed through the New Zealand gateway between […]
Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (BLR) has demonstrated that biometric technology can ensure a seamless and contactless journey for international passengers through its facilities. Operator, Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), in partnership with IndiGo, the Digi Yatra Foundation and IATA, successfully demonstrated integrated international travel flow from ticketing, managing bookings to a seamless, biometric-enabled journey, in […]
