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With global travel retail sales at airports yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, Kavanagh Communication’s John Matheson considers the potential economic and customer service benefits of F&B innovation. Although global traffic continues to recover well beyond 2019 levels, the performance of the travel retail market has struggled to keep pace with traffic growth. Last year […]
San Diego International Airport’s new Terminal 1 was designed for the passenger experience, writes Terence Young, aviation leader, design director and principal at Gensler. Throughout my architectural career I have designed airports around the world from LAX to Incheon, and over the years I’ve seen how the aviation industry responds to trends, with each new […]
We find out more about the growth, development and expansion plans of Queen Alia International Airport, Jordan’s air gateway to the world. With passenger traffic on the rise, a newly extended concession agreement for Airports International Group (AIG) and plans underway for the next phase of its infrastructure development, these are busy times for Jordan’s […]
The topping out ceremony has been held for the world’s first commercial vertiport ‘DXV’ located next to Dubai International Airport in the UAE. It is being built by Skyports Infrastructure (Skyports) in collaboration with the Dubai Roads & Transport Authority (RTA). According to its developers, DXV is now 60% complete, with construction running on schedule for […]
Britain’s pilots are urging UK Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, to “future-proof” plans for Heathrow’s third runway. British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) general secretary, Amy Leversidge, wants Alexander to ensure that the winning bid provides sufficient additional capacity and flexibility to protect the airport against any future need for expansion. There are currently two bids to […]
Indonesia’s Directorate General of Immigration has become the first authority in the world to introduce biometric corridors at scale with new biometrics on-the-move technology. This brand-new innovation from Amadeus uses AI-enabled biometrics to validate passenger identities “in motion” through wide corridors, rather than stopping to manually present documents to a border guard or at a […]
Finavia and the Vantaa Light Rail Alliance are working together to develop a plan for the location of an airport stop for the newly approved transport link. “We are very pleased with the decision that the political decision-makers of Vantaa were ready to give the Vantaa Light Rail Alliance a mandate to plan the light […]
Hong Kong International Airport handled 5.37 million passengers and 34,465 aircraft movements in October, representing year-on-year increases of 18% and 9.1% respectively. According to the gateway, traffic to and from Southeast Asia, Chinese Mainland and Taiwan recorded the most significant growth in the month. Robust growth was sighted in transfer and transit passengers, recording a […]
DOWNLOAD THE ISSUE HERE Airport Profile: Queen Alia Special Report: New Infrastructure Plus: Connectivity; Cybersecurity; IT Innovation; Clear skies ahead Editor, Joe Bates, reflects on a busy and eventful year for Airport World and the ‘passenger facilitation’ theme of this issue. With our December/January 2026 issue being published in January next year, it feels right […]
Global operator, Aena, handled 35 million passengers across its airport system spanning two continents in October. The total represented a 4.5% increase on the corresponding month a year ago as traffic across its 46 airports and two heliports in Spain, London Luton Airport in the UK and 17 gateways in Brazil experienced a healthy upturn […]
Australia’s largest airports are joining forces once again to raise awareness of human trafficking and exploitation, with Perth Airport joining Sydney and Melbourne in expanding the Can You See Me? awareness campaign nationwide. Led by anti-human trafficking organisation A21, the campaign urges travellers to recognise and report the signs of human trafficking and modern slavery. […]
Hyatt House DFW is a step closer to reality following a groundbreaking ceremony for the new extended stay hotel at the Southgate entrance of the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport campus. The hotel, which is being developed by Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), Woodbine Development Corporation, Muckleroy & Falls and Merriman […]
