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LED technology: Adelaide Airport’s journey

27 November 2015 | By Stephanie Bolt and Jimmy Low, Adelaide Airport

LED technology has fast become a proven and reliable replacement for interior, landside and airfield lighting. As Adelaide Airport’s Stephanie Bolt, Environment Manager, and Jimmy Low, Projects and Engineering Manager explain, LED technology has become a preferred option at Adelaide Airport for select lighting upgrades, not only as a way…

ATC: IFATCA – One sky, one voice

27 November 2015 | By Scott Shallies, Deputy President, IFATCA

The International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers’ Associations (IFATCA) is the global professional voice of Air Traffic Controllers. Since its inception in 1961, IFATCA has grown, and is now representing over 50,000 controllers in 133 countries from all parts of the world. As its Deputy President Scott Shallies explains, IFATCA…

More than 25 years of successful, sustainable environmental protection at Hamburg Airport

27 November 2015 | By Axel Schmidt and Volker Budde-Steinacker from Hamburg Airport’s Environmental Protection Centre

Hamburg Airport acts as a powerful economic force by not only making a decisive contribution to the successful economic development of northern Germany, but also underlines its responsibility as a modern, environmentally conscious company, well beyond the legal requirements. For International Airport Review, Axel Schmidt and Volker Budde-Steinacker from Hamburg…

Airport security: tough questions still remain

19 November 2015 | By Martin Aggar, Aviation Director for G4S Risk Management

Martin Aggar, Aviation Director for G4S Risk Management, examines current airport security measures following the tragic events surrounding the ill-fated Metrojet flight departing Sharm el-Sheikh Airport.

The physically demanding field of ground handling

21 October 2015 | By

Hamburg Airport is a pioneer in health management for ground handling services. The work they do is diverse and full of variety, but it is also very demanding. Not a single plane could take off from Hamburg Airport if it were not for the approximately 900 employees of the ground…

Finavia speeds up air travel with the latest technology

19 October 2015 | By

The Finnish Airport operator Finavia is constantly investing in making the passenger experience at its 24 airports as smooth as possible. Vice-President of Aviation and Safety at Finavia’s Helsinki Airport, Heini Noronen-Juhola, explains that technology plays a key role in the development.

IATA’s keeping baggage on track

16 October 2015 | By

In June 2013, there were several new resolutions for baggage that appeared in the IATA Passenger Services Conference Resolution Manual. One is a brief text that describes baggage tracking, but it is set to make big changes in the industry. Resolution 753 packs a lot into a small space. The…

Delivering the ‘Manchester Airport Transformation Programme’

14 October 2015 | By

In June 2015, Ken O’Toole, Managing Director of Manchester Airport, unveiled a £1 billion transformation programme for the UK’s third biggest airport. For International Airport Review, Ken covers how the 10-year phased investment programme will transform Manchester Airport, ensuring that it continues to thrive as a national asset and play…

London Luton Airport: Building for the future of airports

13 October 2015 | By

Several months on, debate, intrigue and media speculation continue to reverberate around Sir Howard Davies’s report into airport capacity. Whilst the final outcome on where to build an additional runway remains uncertain, what is clear is that it will take more than a decade to become a reality. In the…

Airport Construction & Design supplement 2015

28 September 2015 | By Nick Barton, Ken O’Toole, Jurgen Renner

In this Airport Construction & Design supplement: Nick Barton, CEO at London Luton Airport shares their ambitious plans to expand by 50%, Ken O’Toole, Managing Director at Manchester Airport discusses the ‘Manchester Airport Transformation Programme’, and Jurgen Renner from IATA Consulting explains how to improve and optimise the LoS of…

The role of ANSPs in European aviation

28 September 2015 | By Guenter Martis, Director European Affairs at CANSO

Air traffic management (ATM) provided by air navigation service providers (ANSPs) is the invisible part of the air transport value chain but it is the essential enabler for the air transport system. In this article Guenter Martis, Director European Affairs at CANSO, will lay out what ANSPs are doing to…

Are you part of EUROCONTROL’s Network Manager Operations Centre (NMOC)?

28 September 2015 | By Joe Sultana, Director Network Manager at EUROCONTROL

EUROCONTROL’s Network Manager Operations Centre (NMOC) covers the air traffic over 42 countries – from Ireland to Armenia and from Morocco to Finland. So it has a good idea of what is happening in Europe’s airspace – but not always what is happening on the ground. Although some airports are…