Contract awarded in $309 million Uganda oil region airport build
The build, which is financed by UK Export Finance and a private bank, is expected to become Uganda's second international airport.
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Middle East airports losing transfer traffic to Istanbul
Major airports in the Gulf, Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi are all losing market share of transit passengers to Istanbul, even before the city's mega airport opens later this year.
New batch of smart gates go live at Dubai International
The biggest airport in the Middle East has announced the installation of 20 more smart gates that can process arriving passengers within 15 seconds.
Hartsfield-Jackson retains world’s busiest title for 20th year
The world's biggest airport has retained that honour for yet another year, keeping competition from China and the Middle East at bay.
Infrastructure crisis: IATA chief warns of looming troubles threatening aviation’s future
With passenger numbers set to reach 7.8 billion in the next 18 years, the International Air Transport Association has expressed its concerns that the pace of infrastructure development may soon create a capacity crisis.
UK Government appoints Champion to raise profile of private flying
A new role has been created to help understand the role general aviation plays in the UK economy and identify key pieces of infrastructure that support its activities.
East Midlands Airport signs off on ‘framework agreement’ with American construction firm
As part of East Midlands Airport's plans to double passenger numbers by 2030, an American firm has be brought on board to deliver upcoming construction and maintenance works.
Contract awarded for new regional transit centre at Toronto Pearson
A global architecture and design firm with a large back catalogue of airport builds has been chosen by the authorities at Canada's second biggest airport to design a regional transit centre and passenger processing facility.
AirAsia the first international carrier at Austalia’s Avalon Airport
AirAsia and Avalon Airport announced today that AirAsia will become its first international carrier after moving its Melbourne operations to Avalon Airport from Melbourne Airport, effective later this year.
Belfast City announces £15 million infrastructure investment
The investment will pay for a 30 per cent increase in retail space, a 25 per cent increase in food and drink space, a doubling in the customer seating and three new fire appliances.
Top five fastest growing European airports of 2017
This year's figures have been released showing the popularity of air travel continues its post-crash surge with the top five airports welcoming 18 million more passengers than 2016.
Virtual tower test successful with control centre 400km from airport
A successful virtual remote tower trial at a small airport in Germany has opened the door to live operations by the end of 2018 after the German Federal Supervisory Authority for Air Navigation Services (BAF) has given its approval.
First plane in EU-China customs data-sharing project touches down at Schiphol
The World Customs Organisation (WCO)-backed pilot is aimed at reducing lead times and costs, and boosting secure supply chains, through cooperation between customs in China and the EU.
British Airways chief: break up Heathrow monoploy to cut costs
The CEO of International Airlines Group has said that airlines and other third parties should be allowed to run terminals at Heathrow Airport as they do in the United States.
Augmented reality brings new dimension to ATC controllers with SESAR project
The RETINA “Resilient Synthetic Vision for Advanced Control Tower Air Navigation Service Provision” is a research and innovation project that deals with the development of innovative tools for the airport control tower. The project grabs the idea of augmented vision and investigates its application to the on-site control towers.
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