Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
The operators of Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam have announced a "trial involving self-driving buses" in partnership with nlmtd and TNW (The Next Web. "Ground-based activities such as baggage transport, passenger transport and aircraft towing will not only be clean,...
Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority has selected Balfour Beatty’s Building operations, joint venture partner Metcon, in association with Right Build and Varnedoe Construction, to deliver an approximately $650 million phased construction programme). The building work...
Cork Airport is to start its summer flying programme with 44 routes, 29 of them operated by Ryanair which has added Seville, La Rochelle, Venice Treviso and Rome Fiumicino and East Midlands as new destinations for 2023. Aer Lingus has restarted flights to Faro and...
Passengers departing London Gatwick have complained of long delays and near-misses catching flights due to a breakdown of the airport's check-in machines. The outage was reported on March 26 as the airport warned on its social media accounts that passengers should "be...
French carrier Chalair is to operate two new routes to France from Kerry in Ireland's south-west. The flights, to Brest and Quimpur in Brittany, are to depart every Saturday from July 1. "Ireland, and specifically County Kerry, is a very popular destination for French...
Israel's Tel Aviv Ben Gurin International Airport has halted all outgoing flights as per the announcement made by the Israel Airport Authority. For the time being, aircraft are able to land at the airport. The airport operations are disrupted due to the general strike...
Edinburgh Airport and easyJet have announced that passengers can leave luggage at the airport the day before a flight as part of the carrier's "twilight bag drop" service. Passengers on early morning flights can "come to the airport the night before to check in bags,...
UK air traffic services body NATS has announced what it says is "one of the biggest airspace modernisation changes has been implemented over Wales and south-west England" with the deployment on March 23 of systemisation and free route airspace. The system's range...
The first of what are to be 12 Air India flights a week from London Gatwick Airport took off on March 26. The airport said the new routes to Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Kochi and Goa would support tourism and trade between the two countries. “These exiting routes open up a...
The first flight from London's Gatwick Airport to Nice took off on March 25, the Hungarian budget airline has announced. The route is the latest to get off the ground from the south London hub, from where Wizz flies to around 90 destinations. “We are happy to...
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) said 2022 passenger numbers through its airports "significantly increased" compared to 2021. The 181% year-on-year increase took traffic to 35.6 million passengers, or 70% of 2019, and was down "easing of pandemic-related...
A total of 2,732,000 passengers passed through Sydney Airport in February 2023, representing an 80.4% recovery compared to pre-COVID February 2019. The airport recently announced the passenger traffic figures for February 2023. Domestic passenger traffic was 82.9%...