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What next for Hamad International Airport? Joe Bates reviews the gateway’s newly unveiled development plans. Qatar’s Hamad International Airport, one of the world’s newest hubs 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 […]
New York’s Stewart International Airport will be under new management on January 1 when a joint venture between Groupe ADP and AvPorts assumes responsibility for the operating, maintaining and developing the gateway for at least the next 10 years. Future Stewart Partners will operate and maintain the airport’s terminal, landside and airfield and will also manage […]
Singapore Changi retained its title as the world’s most sleep friendly gateway in Sleeping in Airports’ annual passenger poll, writes Joe Bates. 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 […]
Eight new F&B outlets have opened at Mactan Cebu International Airport in the Philippines. Master concessionaire, SSP, unveiled seven new outlets in July as part of its plans to transform the gateway’s F&B offerings through the introduction of 27 new food and beverage units at the airport. Those outlets included The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, […]
Karl Lyndon, global aviation sector leader at integrated engineering consultancy, BuroHappold, explores the growing focus on greening airport terminal buildings. The aviation sector has been attracting a lot of attention recently – and not all of it for the right reasons. The new trend of ‘flight shaming’ in a bid to discourage air travel and […]
Over the next 30 years, every assumption and norm underpinning the need for airports and the way that these facilities function will be open to disruption, writes Thornton Tomasetti’s senior resilience consultant, Richard Look. The very concept of airports and how we interact with them will change. Despite this era of uncertainty, we need our airports […]
Moscow–Sheremetyevo International Airport is listed among the best employers in Russia by Forbes magazine, which rated the airport number 33 among Russia’s top 50. The Forbes rating is based on a global survey of the corporate culture and practices of the largest Russian companies. The survey encompassed 150 nominees and revealed that Russian companies are investing in benefits, working conditions and activities that make […]
Airports Company South Africa (ACSA), San Antonio International Airport and US-based CAG Holdings have all made key new appointments to help take their respective companies forward in 2020. Nompumelelo (Mpumi) Mpofu will become ACSA’s new CEO on February 1, 2020, and according to a statement issued by the company, joins it at a time “when […]
A new beer is on tap at San Diego International Airport, and sales should be soaring at it has been brewed with purified condesate collected through the gateway’s water conservation programme! Called SAN Test Pilot and created in conjunctiion with local brewery, Ballast Point, and industrial water purification specialists, Water Works Inc, the beverage can […]
News, views and reviews from ACI’s regional and global World Business Partners. MELBOURNE’S NEW CT SECURITY SCREENING TECHNOLOGY Melbourne (MEL) has become the first major Australian airport to permanently adopt Computed Tomography (CT) X-ray screening technology following the installation of new state-of-the-art Smiths Detection equipment at the security checkpoints in Terminal 4. The technology allows […]
Someone must really love smoking as a passenger has just spent €379,000 on a unique humidor and some Cuban cigars at the Exqusite boutique at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. More specifically they have paid the money for a unique Cohiba 50 Aniversario Humidor and its accompanying cigars after a visit to the high end spirits and cigar boutique […]
Congratulations are in order to London City Airport (LCY), which today reveals that it has become the latest gateway to achieve carbon neutrality status in ACI’s Airport Carbon Accreditation programme. The respected international programme has awarded London’s most central airport ‘Level 3+ (Neutrality)’ status – its highest accreditation– in recognition of its exceptional work in managing, […]
