Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Spanish state-owned airport operator Aena said 2022 passenger numbers reached almost 90% of the pre-Covid level, with December traffic topping 98% of what was recorded in the same month in 2019. "The airports in the Aena network closed 2022 with a total of 243,681,775...
Fusion Genomics has opened "first-of-its-kind" automated infectious-disease surveillance facility at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Using Fusion’s DNA sequencing-based ONETest platform, the facility, Fusion said on January 10, will allow detection of...
Bavaria's main air travel hub Munich Airport saw traffic soar tw0-and-a-half-fold year-on-year in 2022 to hit 31.6 million passengers. Nineteen million more passengers passed through the airport in 2022 compared with the year before, while air freight volume increased...
Brisbane airport is all set to hit a post-pandemic record for January 2023. The airport expects 1.7 million passenger footfalls, its highest ever since the pandemic outbreak. Brisbane's international capacity is currently at 63% pre-COVID, and domestic operations are...
Germany's Frankfurt was the best-connected aviation hub Europe, North America and the Middle East in 2022, going by number-crunching carried out aviation analytics company Cirium "Frankfurt Airport was named the most connected airport during the year, with flights...
Heathrow Airport handled almost six million passengers in December 2022, according to a database posted on its website, almost twice as many during the same month in 2021. Annual traffic for 2022 hit 61.6 million passengers, or 76% of 2019, during 2022. At 42.2...
A month later than planned, the new US $2.7 billion Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport will open for business on January 12, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced. In a January 6 statement, the authority said Elizabeth mayor Chris...
London Stansted Airport's 3km-long runway is to be "fully resurfaced" by May 2023, the airport said on January 6. The runway, which was last resurfaced in 2006, is to be closed from midnight to 6am over the first 11 weeks of the five-month project, with the work done...
Brussels Airport kicked off the new year with a new resolution towards sustainable aviation by taking the delivery of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel for the first time using the NATO Central European Pipeline System (CEPS). The CEPS will be supplying aviation fuel...
The Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific has welcomed China’s decision to reopen borders with quarantine-free travel and has called for consistent and harmonized approach from airlines and airports towards managing inbound travel. Commenting on the...
Border Force staff at airports in UK has gone on a mass strike over better pay and working conditions. Airlines and airport authorities have warned international passengers about long delays due to the strike. More than 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial...
With around 75,000 passengers expected between December 20 and New Year's Day, Shannon Airport in Ireland's south-west is expecting its busiest Christmas in three years. A departure and layover point for flights to the US, Shannon has slowly been regaining traffic...