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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]