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Amsterdam Schiphol has announced that it will strengthen its successful partnership with Lagardère Travel Retail for the operation of more than 20 duty-free stores behind security control from May 2025. According to the Dutch hub, the strengthened partnership will take the form of a joint venture in which Lagardère Travel Retail has 70% of the […]
Frankfurt Airport (FRA) welcomed some 4.6 million passengers in November, a slight 1% increase on the same month a year ago. Compared to pre-crisis levels, passenger traffic at FRA was still about 8.4% below the figure seen in November 2019. Cargo throughput in Frankfurt grew by 2.4% year-on-year to 178,355 tonnes in the month under […]
San Antonio International Airport (SAT), one of the fastest-growing medium-sized airports in the United States, today celebrated the groundbreaking of a new terminal, which will accommodate SAT and the San Antonio region’s continued rapid growth and expansion. The groundbreaking represents a significant step in SAT’s commitment to meeting the increasing demands of global air travel. […]
SITA has announced a strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Airport (RSI), becoming one of the Specialised Airport Systems (SAS) providers for the airport’s new main terminal building. This marks a milestone in the growing collaboration between RSI and SITA, following SITA’s work on the successful deployment of the airport’s Air Taxi Terminal. […]
Finavia is piloting a new digital service that will show passengers the predicted queue time at security control over the next 12 hours at Helsinki Airport. Finavia is developing the piloted service together with its customers. “The services and customer experience at Helsinki Airport are developed in a data-driven way,” explains Finavia’s head of passenger […]
The latest edition of the Air Transport Action Group’s Aviation: Benefits Beyond Borders report provides an in-depth look at the economic and social contributions of the global aviation sector and how it connects a globalised world. The report was presented at yesterday’s ICAO event in Chicago to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the signing of […]
Fraport AG expects to complete the sale of its stake in Pulkovo Airport (LED) in St Petersburg in the coming days. The completion of the share transfer only requires the registration of the change in ownership in the Russian register of companies. The global airport operator suspended its activities at the airport soon after Russia’s […]
We round-up some of the latest ACI World Business Partner stories from across the globe. ‘Dynamic and hyperlocal’ donut concept opens at YVR WHSmith North America (WHSNA) has partnered with local-favourite, Lee’s Donuts, to open a new location at Vancouver International Airport (YVR). The brand is known across the Metro Vancouver region for providing a […]
Global airport operator, Fraport AG, has won the concession to operate Kalamata Airport (KLX) in Greece for the next 40 years. Fraport and its Greek partners – Delta Airport Investments SA (Copelouzos Group) and Pileas SA (Constantakopoulos Group) – have secured the deal with a bid totaling €45.2 million. The concession covers operation of the […]
This Christmas, Heathrow is turning up the holiday cheer with a live choir in arrivals, to welcome passengers home for the holidays. Throughout December, the choir of over 20 singers will deck the arrivals halls of the four terminals with joyful carols, personalised greetings and multilingual merry messages. As well as classic carols and contemporary […]
The human connection Richard Plenty and Terri Morrissey reflect on the importance of the human connection as the ‘airport group’ model grows in importance. How do airport acquisitions and mergers affect people who work in airports? Until well into the 1990s, the airport sector was characterised by a multiplicity of state-owned, independently run, relatively small […]
Denmark’s Finance Ministry has reached a conditional agreement with Danish pension fund ATP to buy a further 59.4% of the shares in Copenhagen Airports for around $4.52 billion. If the deal goes through, the Danish state will own 98.6% of the company, which owns and operates Copenhagen Airport, although it could eventually reduce this to […]
