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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Celebrates DFW Airport’s Groundbreaking of Third End-Around Taxiway, Announces $28.8 Million Federal Funding

Source: DFW Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) welcomed U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to celebrate the groundbreaking of the next phase in the Airport’s industry-leading End Around Taxiway (EAT) program. Additionally, the Secretary announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would provide a payment of $28.8 million toward construction of the newest EAT on the airport’s southwest side, marking the third of its kind at DFW Airport. “What really distinguishes DFW is the size and the growth happening at the same time,” Buttigieg said. “Sometimes you have fast-growing markets, sometimes you have large ones, but this is one that is both. And, I appreciate the way DFW is looking to the future.” The FAA has committed to providing [...]

2023-04-03T04:32:58+03:00April 3rd, 2023|AIRPORTS, News, ORGANISATIONS|

Volaris El Salvador becomes newest airline at MIA

Source: MIA Miami-Dade County and Volaris El Salvador officials celebrated the airline’s launch of three weekly roundtrip flights between San Salvador and Miami with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Miami International Airport. Volaris El Salvador will operate the new service with A320 aircraft that seat 174 passengers. Volaris El Salvador is a low-cost subsidiary of Mexican airline Volaris based in San Salvador and a flag carrier for El Salvador. The San Salvador-Miami route is also served by American Airlines and Avianca. More than 260,000 passengers traveled between MIA and El Salvador in 2022. Volaris El Salvador’s Miami launch made it MIA’s 100th airline partner and 11th low-cost carrier. MIA is now home to 57 passenger airlines and 43 all-cargo carriers.

2023-03-29T20:43:33+03:00March 29th, 2023|AIRLINES, AIRPORTS, News|

CBSA to reopen all NEXUS airport enrolment centres

Source: Canada Border Services Agency The CBSA and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are delivering on their commitment to reopen all NEXUS enrolment centres in Canadian airports by Spring 2023. This will both expand the program’s capacity and help the thousands of travellers who request NEXUS memberships each month get their cards faster. Travellers can book interviews at the following airports, with interview start dates listed below: March 27: Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ) and Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (YWG) April 3: Vancouver International Airport (YVR) April 12: Calgary International Airport (YYC) and Edmonton International Airport (YEG) April 17: Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) April 24: Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) and Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW) This new [...]

2023-03-21T04:16:23+02:00March 21st, 2023|AIRPORTS, News, ORGANISATIONS|

Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport Named One of World’s Best by Skytrax World Airport Awards

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, [...]

2023-03-17T12:57:05+02:00March 17th, 2023|AIRPORTS, News|

The Container City Constructed by iGA Istanbul Airport in Hatay is completed

Source: iGA Istanbul Airport In Hatay, one of the provinces that suffered the most after the earthquakes, described as the 'disaster of the century' and which have directly affected 11 provinces, efforts to heal the wounds of the disaster are continuing. iGA has been working on the installation of 350 containers to host approximately 2,100 disaster victims. While the country is trying to heal the wounds caused by the earthquakes that centered in Kahramanmaraş, which affected 11 provinces and were described as the biggest disaster of the last century; iGA took action to build a container city to shelter disaster victims who have been left homeless in Hatay, one of the provinces most affected by the earthquake. The 350-container city [...]

2023-03-17T13:24:06+02:00March 17th, 2023|AIRPORTS, AROUND THE WORLD, News|

Transformative innovation arrives at Aruba’s Queen Beatrix International Airport

Source: SITA SITA and Indicio kick off pilot program using privacy-preserving decentralized identity technology and ICAO DTC standards for travel to Aruba  SITA, working with Indicio and the Aruba Tourism Authority, today announced the implementation of seamless travel to Aruba through the use of verifiable digital credential technology. This innovation will soon allow travelers to Aruba to fulfill government immigration requirements before boarding their flight with their ‘ready-to-fly’ status being confirmed invisibly in the background. Passengers arriving at Queen Beatrix International Airport can apply for their travel authorization using a simplified process that eliminates the need to manually enter information from paper travel documents. Using a Digital Travel Credential (DTC), passengers can consent to share any of their relevant data [...]

2023-03-20T18:50:36+02:00March 17th, 2023|AIRPORTS, News, SUPPLIERS|

Royal Schiphol Group: Traffic and transport figures for February 2023

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 [...]

2023-03-16T19:41:56+02:00March 15th, 2023|AIRPORTS, News|

MIA partner NewsLink Group earns top retailer award

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 [...]

2023-03-15T17:40:27+02:00March 14th, 2023|AIRPORTS, News|

Recovery Continues: Fraport’s 2022 Fiscal Year Marked by Strong Demand

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. [...]

2023-03-15T18:11:44+02:00March 14th, 2023|AIRPORTS, News|

Aena airports surpass pre-pandemic figures for second month in a row with more than 16.6 million passengers in February

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 [...]

2023-03-13T18:30:18+02:00March 13th, 2023|AIRPORTS, News|