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Stansted to invest £1.4bn in rail services, welcomes new operator

Abellio East Anglia has won the franchise to operate the Stansted Express between London, the airport and Cambridg ...

ACI: European passenger traffic increased by 4.9% in 1H 2016

ACI Europe revealed that during the first half of this year, passenger traffic at Europe’s airports grew by a ...

Fraport, €17 million revenue decrease in 1H 2016

In the first half of 2016, the Fraport Group achieved revenue of just over €1.2 billion - a €17.1 milli ...

FAA awards LAX with $4m grant for low emissions program

FAA awarded LAX with $4-million grant for a Voluntary Airport Low Emissions Program project....

Bordeaux prepares the airport of tomorrow

Construction of three-runway system starts at HKIA

The eight-year construction of 3RS is expected to be completed in 2024, with the commissioning of the new runway in 2022 ...

Fraport to sell partial stake in Thalita for up to €40m

Frankfurt Airport and its consortium partners at Pulkovo Airport will sell part of their shares in Thalita Trading to Qa ...

London City Airport receives approval for £344m expansion plan

London City Airport has received planning permission from the UK Government. ...

Hartsfield-Jackson, passenger traffic increase by 4% in 1H 2016

As of June 30, 2016, Hartsfield-Jackson airport hosted 51,293,666 passengers year-to-date. ...

Two vehicle explosions near Mogadishu Airport in Somalia

Two vehicles exploded close to the African Union peacekeeper troops base, that is located near the airport. ...

Gatwick announces construction companies for its transformation

Gatwick announced 17 construction and engineering companies to take forward the next stage of it's &poun ...

Heathrow, 35.7 million passengers served in 1H 2016

Heathrow served 35.7 million passengers, an increase of 0.6% in first six months of 2016....

Dallas airport briefly closes runways due to motorist chase

A female driver led police on a low-speed chase to a remote area on the airport’s east side....

United aims at modernizing airport screening

United Airlines and the Transportation Security Administration announced plans to modernize the airport security. ...

Delta to relocate, upgrade operations at LAX through $1.9bn plan

Los Angeles World Airports’ Board of Airport Commissioners approved a terminal facilities lease and license agreem ...

HKIA, passenger traffic increase by 5% in 2Q 2016

The growth of passenger traffic was mainly attributed to continued growth in travel by Hong Kong residents ...

Heathrow pledges to new PM to invest £16bn if expansion approved

In a letter to new UK Prime Minister Theresa May, Heathrow representatives committed to invest £16bn in a private ...

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Ataturk Airport resumes work after failed coup in Turkey

All flights at Ataturk airport resumed at approx. 06:00 am (0300 GMT). ...

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Military coup in Turkey: local airports are closed

All flights to and from the airport are cancelled, the airport is closed. ...

Sky Line shuttle services restricted at Frankfurt Airport

During daytime, up to 12 replacement buses will be deployed in the public area, while 9 buses will be operati ...

Lockheed Martin wins $344m contract to improve airport efficiency

The system will provide electronic flight strips and surface management tools that will allow streamlined operations in ...

PHOTOS: Frankfurt Airport celebrates 80th Anniversary

On July 8, 1936 – Frankfurt Airport was officially opened, when a Junkers Ju 52/3m aircraft made its first landing ...

Gatwick opens new, £36m state-of-the-art security area

The state-of-the-art facility will halve the time it takes passengers to pass through security. ...

Frankfurt Airport to upgrade its yoga rooms

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, urged all top world airports to provide yoga facilities if they wanted to be “world-cla ...

DXB, passenger traffic increase by 7% in first 5 months of 2016

In the month of May, Eastern Europe was the fastest growing region for Dubai International - 16.6%. ...

Heathrow: 74% of Tory members back expansion after Brexit vote

According to YouGov poll, 74% of Tory Party members now support a third runway at Heathrow. ...

HKIA, passenger traffic increase by 7.8% in 2015

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) handled 69.7 million passengers and 410,000 flight movements in 2015/16, ...

Leonardo to build logistics hub in Russia's Tolmachevo airport

Leonardo-Finmeccanica along with Russian Post will build a logistics hub at Tolmachevo International Airport in Nov ...

Boeing to provide airport modeling support to Turkish authorities

Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen will provide its Total Airport and Airspace Modeler solution to Turkey’s General Direct ...

Delhi leads passenger traffic growth in APAC this April

Asia-Pacific and the Middle East regions delivered strong passenger traffic growth in April 2016, at +7. ...

ACI: 2 million passengers lost due to Brussels terror attacks

European airports welcomed in excess of 100 million additional passengers over 2015. ...

Airlines' noise record improved by 6% at Heathrow

On average, airlines pay ten times more to fly oldest and noisiest at Heathrow. ...

HKIA, passenger traffic growth by 1.4% in May 2016

Rising passenger numbers in May were mainly driven by a 4% year-on-year growth in travel by Hong Kong residents ...

Moscow approves Sheremetyevo airport development project

New Terminal B with extended infrastructure will be built in place of the old terminal building by 2018. ...

DXB, passenger traffic increase by 7% in April 2016

Dubai International welcomed more than 6.9 million passengers in April 2016...

WATCH: Gatwick unveils £186m state-of-the-art baggage facility

The new replaces the old Pier 1 - which was originally opened by the Queen in 1958....

Brussels Airport, passenger traffic decrease by 8% in May 2016

Despite the 8.4% passenger turnover decrease in May, Brussels Airport is on its way to full recovery after the ter ...

ACI: Top European hubs invested over €53bn in the last 10 years

ACI Europe revealed that the top 21 airports in the EU & EFTA invested more than €53 billion back into the ...

Fraport, passenger traffic decrease by 5.5% in May, 2016

Frankfurt Airport served 5.3 million passengers served in May 2016, a 5.5% decline compared to the same m ...

Shanghai construction company acquires Frankfurt Hahn Airport

Shanghai Yiqian Trading Compan acquired a 82.5% stake in Frankfurt-Hahn Airport....

Kuwait International to build new terminal for $4.3bn

The airport's capacity will increase from 7 million to 25 million passengers per year...

Brussels Airport to resume 100% capacity in the departures hall

Brussels Airport will resume normal operations in the departures hall on June 2, 2016 - a mere two and a half month ...

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