TODAY’S SPECIAL
Pragma Consulting’s Alex Avery discusses how food and beverage is transforming airport retail. Whilst the challenges of delivering growth in retail are well documented, F&B continues to be the star...
BACK TO BASICS
Concentrating on the basics and keeping things simple can prove the catalyst for improved duty free revenues at airports, writes Paccaya Resource’s Andrew Ford. Like so many of us, I...
EXCITING TIMES
Brisbane Airport Corporation CEO, Gert-Jan de Graaff, talks to Joe Bates about the hugely ambitious development plans that tempted him back to the Queensland gateway. It says something about the...
WOLFGANG PUCK’S LATEST AIRPORT RESTAURANT OPENS IN HONG KONG
Celebrity chef, Wolfgang Puck, made a flying visit to Hong Kong yesterday to open his latest airport eatery, the Wolfgang Puck Kitchen Restaurant in the Arrivals Hall of Hong Kong...
QUEEN ALIA WELCOMES LAUNCH OF TRANSAVIA FLIGHTS TO AMSTERDAM
Transavia has become the latest new airline to launch services to Jordan’s Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA). The Dutch low-cost carrier will operate three weekly flights between Amman and Amsterdam Schiphol. Its arrival...
CHINA OPENS NEW BEIJING DAXING INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
The world’s newest major airport, Beijing Daxing, opened for business today as China marked another major milestone in the modernisation and expansion of its aviation infrastructure. The new $12.9 billion...
NEW SELF-SERVICE TECHNOLOGY COMING TO KRABI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Krabi International Airport in Thailand is to install self-service technology provided by SITA in line with its ambitions to become a regional aviation hub. The airport, operated by Thailand’s Department of...
INDUSTRY NEWS
News, views and reviews from ACI’s regional and global World Business Partners. Bahrain’s vision of the future Bahrain International Airport’s new passenger terminal will boast a host of state-of-the-art technologies...
RISING TO THE CHALLENGE
Taoyuan International Airport was one of the fastest growing cargo hubs in Asia-Pacific in 2018, writes Joe Bates. Having climbed its way into the top five busiest cargo gateways in...
CHALLENGING YEAR CONTINUES FOR ACI ASIA-PACIFIC AIRPORTS
Passenger traffic across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East increased by +2.1% and +8.1% respectively in June. However, in China, the overall passenger growth was negatively impacted by adverse weather conditions...
CATHAY PACIFIC: CARGO GIANT
Cathay Pacific has the fleet, network and facilities in Hong Kong to grow its freight business in a challenging year for the cargo industry, writes Joe Bates. One of the...
BIGGER AND BETTER
We pay tribute to the 2018 Airport Service Quality (ASQ) customer experience award winners and talk to some of the CEOs of the successful gateways. It’s official, Beijing Capital, Delhi-Indira...