Source: Ports Toronto Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ) has once again been ranked among the world’s best by the Skytrax World Airport Awards, a global benchmark of airport excellence voted on by nearly 14 million passengers worldwide. Ranking eighth in the World’s Best Airports (under five million passengers) category and ninth in the Best Regional Airports (North America) category – this represents the eighth year that Billy Bishop Airport has won a prestigious Skytrax award. The 2023 Awards are based on millions of airport survey questionnaires completed by more than 100 different nationalities of air travellers, covering 550 airports worldwide. In the independent survey, passengers continued to rank Billy Bishop Airport highly across 39 key performance indicators, including fast check-in times, [...]

Source: Royal Schiphol Group Almost 3.8 million passengers flew from, via or to Schiphol in February 2023. That is an increase compared to 2022 (+42%) and 2021 (+649%). The amount of flights to and from Schiphol was 28,345. That also is an increase compared to 2022 (+17%) and 2021 (+166%). The number of passengers and the number of flights are lower than in 2019 and 2020. 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Number of passengers 4,843,899 4,716,826 505,208 2,660,917 3,782,228 Number of commercial flights 35,195 34,979 10,655 24,129 28,345 Number of cargo flights    1,061 1,072 2,211 1,731 1,333 Transported tonnage   115,797 116,217 125,137 118,274 109,035 Passengers  Of the almost 3.8 million passengers in February, almost 1.5 million passengers had a transfer [...]

Source: MIA NewsLink was chosen from nominees across North American airports by an awards committee consisting of more than 20 industry executives who judged concessionaires on customer service, presentation, management, and operational execution.  "Congratulations to our business partners at NewsLink for earning rave reviews from the travel experts at Airport Experience News for providing our customers the finest, most diverse airport shopping in the country. I'm proud to see a local business such as NewsLink gain national recognition, while our airport continues to grow as one of the most visited in the country. We are building a strong economy by supporting local businesses, and this shows how much our own businesses can grow when they have all the tools to [...]

Source: Fraport Group result improves to €166.6 million – CEO Schulte expects continued traffic growth during summer by about 15 to 25 percent – Tighter climate targets for 2030: Fraport aims to cut carbon emissions by 78 percent compared to 1990 base-year Fraport AG’s business performance improved significantly in fiscal year 2022 (ending Dec 31). In the wake of the ending Covid pandemic and the gradual lifting of travel restrictions during 2022, high travel demand boosted all of the Group’s key financial figures. The Group result (or net profit) climbed by 81.5 percent year-on-year to €166.6 million, surpassing Fraport’s own guidance set at the start of the year. Dr. Stefan Schulte, Fraport’s CEO, said: "We’re moving in the right direction. [...]

Source: Aena This is a 2.2% increase on the same month of 2019 and 39.6% more than in 2022 There were 154,217 aircraft movements and 80,480 tonnes of cargo were transported across the network Aena network airports ended the month of February 2023 with 16,622,180 passengers, exceeding the data for the same month in 2019, the year before the pandemic, by 2.2%. This also represents an increase of 39.6% compared to February 2022. In February 2023, 154,217 aircraft flights were handled, matching 2019 figures and exceeding those of 2022 by 18.9%; and 80,480 tonnes of cargo were moved, 2.5% more than in the same month in 2019 and 2.2% more than in February 2022. Of the total number of passengers [...]

Source: MIA Airport's bonds have earned upgrades from all four rating agencies Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava proudly announces that Fitch Ratings upgraded its rating of Miami International Airport's (MIA) revenue and refunding bonds from A to A+ on March 2, citing MIA's "outperformance in enplanement recovery" and "superior franchise strength." Fitch becomes the fourth and final rating agency to upgrade MIA's bond rating since last July, joining Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), Moody's Investor Service, and Standard and Poor's Global Ratings (S&P) in rewarding the airport for its rapid rebound from the pandemic. "I am very proud to see that all four bond rating agencies have taken notice of MIA's strong financial health and solid foundation for its [...]

Source: MIA With Miami International Airport’s record-breaking growth carrying over from last year into 2023, the airport is expecting its busiest spring break travel season ever this month. Passenger totals at MIA in January and February were all-time highs for those months, with February bringing a total of 4.1 million passengers for an average of nearly 150,000 travelers per day – an increase of 7% over last February and 5% over February 2020 (pre-pandemic). According to aviation analytics provider Cirium, MIA is the fastest-growing U.S. airport in airline seats compared to pre-pandemic levels. Since that upward trend is projected to continue in March when spring break periods for colleges and grade schools are scheduled throughout the month, MIA is providing the following travel tips: [...]