Christchurch Airport is all set to develop its renewable energy precinct, Kōwhai Park and has chosen Contact Energy and Lightsource bp, as its partners to deliver phase one of the park. In April 2022, Contact Energy and Lightsource bp entered an exclusive partnership...
MRO News Archive
Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Newark’s new terminal gets Boingo wifi upgrade
Newark Liberty International Airport’s plush new Terminal A has been given a further upgrade with the roll-out by Boingo Wireless of "a state-of-the-art, converged network featuring Wi-Fi 6, DAS and private LTE". The requirements of providing wireless communications...
Glasgow Airport claims “UK first” with innovation lab
Glasgow Airport said it is to get the UK’s first "connected airport living lab" when Connected Places Catapult launches demonstrations and trials of innovative technologies at the airport. The tie-up, the airport said, would put it "at the heart of testing a diverse...
ASUR announces 30% passenger traffic jump
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, or ASUR, which operates airports in Colombia, Mexico and the US, reported passenger traffic for January 2023 of 6.3 million, 29.8% above January 2022. Traffic increased by 37.8% in Puerto Rico, 33.6% in Mexico and 16.6% in Colombia,...
Edinburgh to get six new destinations from Ryanair
Irish budget carrier Ryanair is to fly to a “record” 69 destinations from Scotland’s Edinburgh Airport in summer 2023. Six new destinations — Belfast, Bournemouth, Cornwall, London Stansted, Rhodes and Venice — were announced, along with “increased frequencies” on...
Dublin Airport reports busiest January on record
Dublin Airport recorded 2.1 million passengers in January 2023, 2% above the previous record set in 2019 and more than double the number for the same month in 2022. Cork Airport in Ireland’s south, which is also operated by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), reported...
Cirium says UK aviation could be hit hard by March border strike
Aviation analytics provider Cirium has said hundreds of thousands of passengers could be affected when UK border officials go on strike for a day on March 15, There are to be 2,125 flights landing at British airports on the day of the industrial action, Cirium...
Porter Airlines marks first Toronto-Vancouver flight on Embraer
Porter Airlines has announced its first flights using its new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft between Toronto Pearson International Airport and Vancouver International Airport. “Today’s flights between Toronto Pearson and Vancouver are the first opportunity for passengers to...
ZeroAvia and Shell announce plans for hydrogen-powered flights from Rotterdam by 2025
ZeroAvia and its investor Shell have agreed with Rotterdam The Hague Airport and Rotterdam the Hague Innovation Airport to plan for hydrogen-powered commercial flights by 2025 UK-based ZeroAvia, which is developing "zero-emissions solutions" for commercial flying,...
Hamad International airport aims to cross 40 million passenger mark in 2023
Qatar’s Hamad International Airport hopes to cross a record 40 million passengers this year. In 2019, prior to the pandemic, the airport recorded 39.5 million passengers. In a report last week, the airport claimed that it has recovered 35.7 million in 2022 with the...
Malaysia’s Subang Airport redevelopment plan gets cabinet nod
The Malaysian Government has recently approved a plan for the rejuvenation of Malaysia’s Subang Airport. As a part of the plan the airport will be developed into a premium city airport and aviation hub with a capacity to handle eight million passengers annually and...
Wideroe adds Bergen route from London Stansted
London Stansted is get a new link to Bergen in Norway when Widerøe opens a twice-weekly service in March 2023. Bergen is Norway's country’s second largest city and is known for its Bryggen harbour district, one of Europe's oldest ports, and as the gateway to Norwegian...
