Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
London City Airport has produced a new travel portal to help passengers make informed travel plans. With the latest travel guidelines set out by the UK providing only part of the picture, the portal is a one-stop-shop for understanding the entry requirements of...
Menzies Aviation has been awarded a five-year cargo contract with Avianca at Miami International Airport (MIA). Following a competitive process, Avianca selected Menzies as its cargo handling partner of choice at MIA, a strategically important cargo gateway for the...
KfW IPEX-Bank is contributing a further €75 million to the financing of the expansion and modernisation of Helsinki Airport. Originally built in 1952 for the Summer Olympic Games hosted by the Finnish capital, the airport has been undergoing extensive work since 2014...
Data released by the UK Civil Aviation Authority shows that passenger numbers travelling through UK airports last summer [2020] plunged to their lowest level since 1975, laying bare the devastating impact of the pandemic. 14.1m passengers travelled through UK airports...
Following a previously secured agreement with Scandinavian Airlines in late July 2020, Aviator Airport Alliance successfully launched the start-up of ground handling operations for the airline across multiple airports in Norway. Over the next five-year period,...
The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled this week that the third runway for London Heathrow airport can proceed. The court has ruled in favour of the government’s decision to support a third runway at Heathrow and ruled that the government had taken proper account of the...
Stewart Wingate, the chief executive of London's Gatwick airport, has commented to media that it is essential for UK and European regulators to reinstate rules that force airlines to use or lose their take-off and landing slots. The 80/20 rule was suspended for a...
Heathrow CEO, John Holland-Kaye, has again criticised the lack of assistance from the UK government for the aviation sector. The airport has reported a 82% decline in traffic for the month of October compared to 2019 figures, which represents the eighth consecutive...
Brussels Airlines has moved its operations from Berlin Tegel (TXL) to Berlin’s new Brandenburg Airport (BER). The Belgian airline moves under one roof with the other Lufthansa Group airlines (Austrian, Lufthansa and SWISS). Berlin Brandenburg Airport “Willy Brandt”...
London Heathrow has announced that it is no longer Europe's biggest airport, with results for the nine months ending September 30 2020, showing passenger numbers are now forecast to be 22.6m in 2020 and 37.1m in 2021, compared to its June forecast of 29.2m in 2020 and...
ACI EUROPE has warned of such fundamental risks to business continuity that an estimated 193 airports face insolvency in the coming months if passenger traffic does not start to recover by the year end. These airports between them facilitate 277 thousand jobs and...
London Heathrow has opened pre-departure COVID-19 testing facilities in Terminals 2 and 5, which will initially offer passengers travelling to Hong Kong and Italy the option to fulfil those countries’ pre-departure testing requirements at the airport before they fly....