Source: MIA In recognition of its outstanding achievements in airport accessibility, Miami International Airport received the Civil Rights Advocate and Partner Award from the Federal Aviation Administration during its 13th Annual National Civil Rights and Training Conference for Airports on July 28. The award came just two days after the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) being signed into law on July 26, 1990. The award honors ADA coordinators and airport sponsors who have demonstrated excellence in meeting the letter and the spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Congratulations to the entire MIA team for once again being recognized as an industry leader in passenger accessibility. I am committed to making air travel [...]

Source: Aena In the same period of 2021, the company lost €346.4 million Operating cash flow increases to €785.6 million, compared to -€220.3 million in the first half of 2021 Gross operating profit (EBITDA) becomes positive with €631.3 million compared to -€58.2 million in the same period of 2021 In the second quarter of 2022, excluding the DF7 accounting adjustments, the level of commercial income for the same period of 2019 has been recovered Aena’s Board of Directors has approved the proposed charges applicable as of 1 March 2023, setting the adjusted annual maximum revenue per passenger at €10.01 per passenger Aena achieved a net profit of €163.8 million between January and June 2022, an improvement of 147.3% in the [...]

Source: MIA Airport on pace to serve 50 million passengers in 2022 Two years after the pandemic shrank global air travel to historic lows, Miami International Airport (MIA) is experiencing its busiest year ever and is on pace to surpass 50 million annual passengers for the first time in its history. MIA's previous annual record is 45.9 million passengers, set in 2019. According to statistics released this week, MIA served 25.5 million passengers through the first six months of 2022, an 8.5% increase over the midpoint of the airport's record year in 2019. Domestic passengers led the way with an increase of 26% compared to 2019 for 15.3 million travelers year-to-date, while the international passenger count of 10.2 million was [...]

Source: LHR In a sign of the recovery of UK aviation, nearly 6 million passengers travelled through Heathrow in June, totalling 25 million passengers in the first six months of the year. Unprecedented growth in passenger numbers over the last four months matches what took place over the last 40 years. We started recruiting back in November last year in anticipation of capacity recovering this summer, and by the end of July we will have as many people working in security as we had pre-pandemic. We have also reopened Terminal 4 to provide more space for passengers. Rebuilding capacity quickly is very challenging after the significant reductions in resource across the entire aviation supply chain. Arrivals punctuality is very low [...]

Source: Aena 24.3 million passengers passed through its facilities 211,768 aircraft were in operation and 80,068 tonnes of cargo were transported  Airports in the Aena network closed June 2022 with 24,320,204 passengers. This figure is 10.8 percentage points from pre-pandemic levels, meaning that almost 90% of the traffic recorded in June 2019 has already been recovered. In addition, 211,768 aircraft were in operation, which is equivalent to a recovery of 93.8% compared to 2019, while 80,068 tonnes of cargo were transported, representing an increase of 3.5% compared to the same month of 2019. Of the total number of travellers recorded in June, 24,258,474 were commercial passengers, of which 16,491,696 travelled on international flights, 14.4% less than in June 2019. Meanwhile, [...]

Source: VINCI Airports Following VINCI Airports and Groupe ADP’s environmental plans, Nuevo Pudahuel has made the first step to assure Santiago Airport, Arturo Merino Benítez, becomes the first in Latin America to incorporate the use of hydrogen in its operations. Along with a group of leading energy companies (Air Liquide, Copec and Colbún), the concessionaire signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to work on a plan to incorporate this carbon-free fuel into the operations of Chile’s main airport. Nuevo Pudahuel’s shareholders, VINCI Airports and Groupe ADP, have taken the lead in promoting this energy worldwide, with first developments in France and Japan. In 2021, VINCI Concessions and a group of major companies launched the first clean hydrogen infrastructure [...]

Source: Fraport The Fraport Visitor Center can be booked as an extraordinary venue for business events attended by up to 200 guests, providing a phenomenal setting for gatherings of all kinds. It is flexibly configurable to support a wide diversity of activities and events including product debuts, presentations and press conferences, network meetings, festive receptions, and much more. They are uniquely enhanced by taking place among interactive aviation-themed exhibits against the backdrop of Germany’s largest airport. Panoramic windows provide a breathtaking view for attendees to enjoy: parking aircraft being tended by flocks of special ground vehicles appear almost close enough to touch. In the background, a constant procession of planes take off and land. And after dark, the scene transforms [...]

Source: DFW Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is pleased to announce that it was awarded a $35 million grant from the FAA and Department of Transportation to build a new zero carbon central utility plant. The grant is part of a $1 billion bipartisan infrastructure law to fund improvements to airports across the U.S. DFW is the largest in the world and the first carbon-neutral airport in the U.S. As part of reaching the Airport’s goal of achieving Net Zero by 2030, DFW plans to construct a new Zero Carbon Electric Central Utility Plant and replace its aging steam piping distribution system with a highly efficient hot water piping system. This addresses current and future heating and cooling demand; improves resiliency [...]