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The UK government has announced that the first ever net zero transatlantic flight will take off next year, with Virgin Atlantic receiving government funding to fly across the pond using solely sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). In 2023, one of Virgin Atlanticâs flagship Boeing 787s, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines, will take off from London […]
LaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP), the private entity managing and redeveloping LaGuardia Airportâs Terminal B, has launched an internship programme in partnership with Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology. Each semester, two Vaughn College students in their junior or senior years will be selected to intern for LaGuardia Gateway Partners on-site at the brand-new Terminal B […]
Brisbane Airport is today experiencing a milestone in Queenslandâs economic recovery as, for the first time since 2019, more than 14,000 people are passing through the International Terminal in a single day. “To think this time last year, international travel was still capped at 1,000 arrivals per week through Brisbane Airport and people were entering […]
VIEW THE ISSUE HERE Theme: Investing in airports Airport profile: Singapore Changi Review: ACI Africa/World Annual General Assembly Plus: Asset management & Cargo security Time for reflection Airport World editor, Joe Bates, considers the end of another eventful year for the world’s airports and the âinvesting in airportsâ theme of this issue. It’s human nature […]
Air Marakanda, the operator of Uzbekistan’s Samarkand International Airport (SKD), has become a member of ACI EUROPE. The organisation currently represents around 500 airports in 55 countries with its member airports accounting for 90% of commercial air traffic in Europe â 2.3 billion passengers, 18.4 million tons of cargo, and 21.2 million flights annually. âSilver membership […]
London Luton Airport (LLA) in the UK is piloting a new âGreener Futureâ grant to support local community groups and charities demonstrating a commitment to increasing biodiversity and tackling carbon reduction. Organisations based and working within a five-mile radius of the airport can apply for grants of up to ÂŁ10,000. The fund will be managed […]
Just in time for the Christmas holidays, Lagardère AWPL has opened its new Aelia Duty Free stores at Adelaide Airport in Australia. Designed and built in partnership with peckvonhartel, Trivision, Studio All and Bestec, the new stores double the size of duty free retail across arrivals and departures. Inside 800 square metres of Departures and […]
Jordan’s Queen Alia International Airport is on target to handle around eight million passengers in 2022 after reporting that it handled 7.1 million travellers passed through its facilities in the first 11 months of the year. The total to date is 75% up on the same period last year but still 13.2% down on its […]
TAV Technologies’ list of customers in Central Asia continues to grow with the announcement that Aktobe International Airport in Kazakhstan has become the latest gateway to use its Common Use Passenger System (CUPPS). The TAV Airports subsidiary, which also counts Almaty and Samarkand airports as customers, is confident that the Kazakh gateway will benefit from […]
Sydney Airportâs new luxury precinct is now home to Louis Vuittonâs first retail travel store in the southern hemisphere, as well as Gentle Monsterâs first store in the region. The brandâs largest stand-alone travel retail store in the world offers a broad selection of premium womenâs and menâs ready-to-wear, shoes, leather goods, accessories, watches, jewellery […]
VINCI Airports continues to grow its global airport portfolio, today confirming that it has paid $1.17 billion to take a 29.99% stake in Mexican airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte (OMA). The deal follows the agreeing of terms with OMA earlier this year and means that it becomes the largest single shareholder in the […]
The renovation of the central security checkpoint at Munich Airportâs Terminal 2 has begun as part of the gateway’s plans to transform the area with a new layout and state-of-the-art technology. When completed in the autumn of 2024, instead of the familiar traditional checkpoints, new lanes with innovative technology will be used to welcome and […]
