Auckland Airport congratulates Jetstar for reaching outstanding milestone

Jetstar’s dedication to low-cost fares has proved an outstanding success, with the airline announcing that they have carried five million passengers since launching their domestic operation in New Zealand in 2...

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Schiphol presents its aviation awards to business partners

Executive Vice President & COO of Schiphol Group, announced the six winners of the 2012 Schiphol Aviation Awards. Each year, Schiphol presents its aviation awards to business partners who h...

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Ocean Sky to unveil new FBO at Luton Airport

Europe’s fastest growing Private Aviation company, Ocean Sky, announces a multi-million pound upgrade of its Fixed Base Operation (FBO) at London Luton Airport. ...

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Record cargo volumes at Chopin Airport in 2012

Chopin Airport recorded its best year to date in 2012, with over 45,000 tonnes of cargo handled, a 3.9% growth on 2011. ...

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Abu Dhabi sees growth of almost 25% in latest report

Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) said today that its movements during February had grown by almost 25% when compred to last yet. ...

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TNT-UPS : Liege Airport’s position

Liege Airport notes the decision of TNT and UPS to cancel the merger. Although we must await the official decision of the European Commission, the failure of this merger reshuffles the cards on the integrators’ market. ...

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Finavia invests in the functionality of Helsinki Airport’s traffic areas

During the spring and summer, Finavia will implement massive renovation in the traffic areas of Helsinki Airport. In the renovation, a substantial part of the airport’s traffic areas will be re-paved. The goal of the traffic area renovation is to...

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ACI Asia-Pacific Airports recorded 5.1% increase in passenger traffic in September 2012

The September 2012 traffic data recently published in the ACI Passenger and Freight Flash Reports showed a continuous and steady growth in the Asia-Pacific region. Asia-Pacific Read more...

Dubai World Central Handles 90,000 Tonnes of Cargo in 2011

Dubai Airports today announced traffic statistics for Dubai World Central that showed the airport handled 89,729 tonnes of air freight during its first full calendar year of operations.In 2011 Dubai World Central's average monthly air cargo volumes totalled 7,477 tonnes compared to 795 tonnes per month recorded during the airport’s first half year of operations in 2010. Cargo transit traffic comprised 32,989 tonnes or 37 per cent of volume. ...

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Olympics Causes Passenger Numbers to Drop at London Gatwick

The Olympics caused passenger numbers to drop at London Gatwick, as Britons stayed at home to watch the Games. Numbers were down on the last July by 0.1% - equating to a difference of around 4,000 passengers. Nick Dunn, chief f...

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Trial runs at BER: Pilots wanted

Berlin Brandenburg Airport is looking for pilots interested in simulating aircraft take-offs and landings at the new airport with the aid of vehicles as part of a taxiing simulation. ...

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New Rail Link Between Warsaw Chopin Airport

A new rail link between Warsaw Chopin Airport and the Polish capital has opened. ...

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UK airport terror threat level raised to ‘Severe’

Real or imaginary threat of terrorism led to the tightened security across Britain’s transport network, including airports. Although the overall terrorism threat in UK is named ‘Severe’ (higher than earlier rating ‘Substantial’), individual UK infrastructure elements have their own terrorism threat rating measures. It was announced that London’s airports, especially He...

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Changi Airport Group signs MOU with Narita International Airport Corporation

Changi Airport Group (CAG) and Narita International Airport Corporation (NAA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to intensify collaboration between the two major air transportation hubs. The agreement was signed by Mr. Lee Se...

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Dublin Airports Authority will offer carriers new incentives for 2011

Dublin Airports Authority (DAA) revealed a “Grow Incentive Scheme” for 2011 at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports under which the authority will postpone “all airport charges for passenger traffic”, when the number of passengers at the three its managed airports will reach 23.5 million. According to DAA, the nuber had to be reached this year, but was not due to the impact o...

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Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport's New Automated Train Makes Historic First Journey

Sent on its way by Phoenix Mayor, Greg Stanton, the PHX Sky Train, travelled on the track between the East Economy Parking train station and its maintenance facility. ...

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FedEx launched solar-powered Cologne hub

FedEx Express connected with Cologne Bonn Airport and launched the FedEx Central and Eastern Europe hub. This is the 2nd FedEx Express solar-powered hub and the 5th solar facility of FedEx Corp. The facility in Cologne is one of the most advanced FedEx hubs, which is equipped with fully automated sorting system that can deal with up to 18,000 packages and documents per hour. The roof has the company’s largest solar power installation with an area of 16,000 m2 which produces about 800,000 kWh ...

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Brussels South Charleroi Airport: +17% traffic in April

Brussels South Charleroi Airport registered a total of 591,930 passengers in April. This represents an increase of 17% compared to the 504,030 passengers registered in the same month last year. ...

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