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Frontier Airlines and Denver International Airport Break Ground on 14-Gate Facility on East End of Concourse A

Source: Frontier Airlines 120,000-Square-Foot Project to Include Variety of Customer-Centric Features and Adjacent Maintenance Facility Frontier Airlines and Denver International Airport (DEN) today celebrated a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new 120,000-square-foot ground boarding facility on the east end of Concourse A at Denver International Airport. The project includes the remodeling of 83,000 square feet of space, along with a 37,000 square-foot expansion area. The facility will feature 14 gates and an adjacent 8,000-square-foot maintenance facility. Frontier President and CEO Barry Biffle, Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington and City of Denver Councilwoman Stacie Gilmore, along with Frontier mascot Griz the Grizzly Bear, placed shovels in the dirt to mark the project’s ceremonial groundbreaking. “We’re thrilled to join with our partners [...]

2022-08-09T17:27:39+03:00August 9th, 2022|AIRLINES, AIRPORTS, News|

VINCI Airports becomes the leading shareholder of the Mexican airport operator OMA

Source: VINCI Airports Signature of an agreement to acquire a 29.99% stake in the concession company for 13 airport in Mexico 25-year concession Acquisition of a strategic position in a country with strong growth potential VINCI Airports signed an agreement to purchase 29.99% of OMA (Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte). This transaction allows VINCI Airports to add 13 airports to its portfolio – located in Northern and Central Mexico – which handled a total of 23 million passengers in 2019 (18 million in 2021). Monterrey International airport, serving Mexico’s industrial capital, is the fifth-largest airport in the country and accounts for nearly half of OMA’s passenger numbers. Added to this are Chihuahua International and Ciudad Juárez International airports at the [...]

2022-08-03T15:57:40+03:00August 3rd, 2022|AIRPORTS, News|

OMA informs about agreement between Fintech Advisory and Vinci Airports

Source: OMA Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte, S.A.B. de C.V., informs that today, it received a letter from Fintech Advisory Inc. (“Fintech”) under which OMA was informed that certain affiliates of Fintech have entered into a share purchase agreement with a subsidiary of VINCI Airports SAS (“VINCI”) to indirectly sell 29.9% of the capital stock of OMA. Such sale will be implemented through the sale to Vinci of 100% of the equity interests in Servicios de Tecnología Aeroportuaria, S.A. de C.V. (“SETA”) and Aerodrome Infrastructure S.á r.l. (“Aerodrome”), which at the time of the sale will own 49,766,000 Series BB shares and 7,516,377 Series B shares of OMA, in the case of SETA, and approximately 58,529,833 Series B shares of [...]

2022-08-01T17:34:20+03:00August 1st, 2022|AIRPORTS, News|

MIA earns high praise from FAA for airport accessibility

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 [...]

2022-07-29T13:09:29+03:00July 29th, 2022|AIRPORTS, News|

Aena returns to profit after eight quarters in losses and earns €163.8 million between January and June

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 [...]

2022-07-27T17:55:52+03:00July 27th, 2022|AIRPORTS, News|

MIA sets mid-year records for passenger and cargo growth

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 [...]

2022-07-26T17:30:10+03:00July 26th, 2022|AIRPORTS, News|

Edmonton, Canada welcomes Condor’s Non-Stop Service to Frankfurt Germany

Source: Condor and Edmonton International Airport Condor will offer two weekly seasonal flights from Edmonton to Frankfurt starting May 26, 2023 Welcome to Canada's West: Germany's most popular leisure airline will be flying non-stop from Frankfurt to Edmonton with a Boeing 767 from May 2023. Flights to the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta can be booked from EUR 359.99 per person and route and will be offered on Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the summer season. “We are pleased to welcome Condor to YEG and be part of this exciting non-stop connection to Frankfurt. Connecting with international hubs is an important step in restimulating the economy, and this new flight will help to propel and diversify both business and [...]

2022-07-25T15:15:15+03:00July 25th, 2022|AIRLINES, AIRPORTS, News|

Cape Verde and VINCI Airports sign a concession contract for seven airports across the country

Source: VINCI Airports A 40-year concession contract that will boost the former Portuguese colony’s economic growth A strategy designed to expand the country’s tourism industry and support its environmental transition The first concession contract signed by VINCI Airports in Africa Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva of Cape Verde and and Nicolas Notebaert, Chief Executive Officer of VINCI Concessions and President of VINCI Airports signed a concession contract for seven airports in the west African island nation. The contract covers four international airports (the capital city Praia, Sal, São Vicente and Boa Vista) and three domestic airports (São Nicolau, São Filipe and Maio) of Cape Verde. Over a 40-year period, VINCI Airports and its Portuguese subsidiary ANA (owning, respectively, 70% [...]

2022-07-19T15:48:36+03:00July 19th, 2022|AIRPORTS, AROUND THE WORLD, News|

Heathrow experiences 40 years of passenger growth in last 4 months

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 [...]

2022-07-13T17:51:52+03:00July 13th, 2022|AIRPORTS, News|

Airports in the Aena network close the month of June with a recovery of almost 90%

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, [...]

2022-07-12T16:48:15+03:00July 12th, 2022|AIRPORTS, News|