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Brussels Zaventem airport is facing a tough day on 1 October. Due to a national strike by a majority of staff at the external security service provider, Brussels airport is expecting to be virtually deserted on this day. In order to ensure the safety of passengers and staff, the airlines in charge of security...

Ethiopia is about to embark on an ambitious project to build a new airport. A hub with dimensions worthy of its counterparts in the Middle East, at a cost of six billion dollars. With this project, Ethiopian Airlines is realising its vision of becoming THE carrier of the continent. A company that is already the number one in Africa...

There are already three hotels at Luxembourg airport: a three-star Ibis coupled with an Ibis Budget and a four-star NH. The first two are a 10-minute walk from the terminal, the third an average of 7/8 minutes. However, on 3 September, a new establishment, the Ibis Budget,...

40 minutes minimum before departure. This is now the boarding time imposed by the Omani airport authorities at Muscat international airport. This measure came into force on 4 August. It requires passengers to be in the international departure area 40 minutes before the actual departure of the flight. This means that a passenger...

50%. This is one of the best results for an airport in Europe. This is the percentage of passengers and employees travelling to Geneva-Cointrin airport who use public transport. Geneva Airport is firmly committed to reducing its environmental impact and achieving zero CO2 emissions. The airport strongly encourages travellers...

It was one of the few flights linking Lyon to Central and Eastern Europe. As far back as the 1970s, LOT Polish Airlines operated two flights a week to Warsaw in a Tupolev 134. Together with the former Yugoslav airline JAT, LOT provided the link between Lyon and what was then the "Soviet bloc" ....

Air Transat will now be present in Nantes "all year round", to use a very Quebecois expression. The airline will in fact be annualising flights from the metropolis in Western France to the city of Montreal. This strategy follows the conversion of two other seasonal routes, Lyon and Marseille, which will become permanent in 2023. The carrier will offer...

A single building now incorporating Halls A and B, with a simplified passenger pathway, and a terminal with an additional 22,000 m2: this is what Terminal 1 at Marseille-Provence airport looks like, as it was inaugurated on 19 June. It took three years of work to transform the terminal...

The decision has finally been made. Dubai is to close its main airport, Dubai International (DXB), and transfer all its traffic to the existing Al Maktoum International hub (Dubai World Center or DWC). DWC is located close to the Jebel Ali industrial zone and on the border with the Emirate of Abu Dhabi....

Zurich airport in Switzerland remains the country's leading air hub, with almost 29 million passengers by 2023. The airport is expecting to handle 30 million passengers this year, with several airlines stepping up their services with the introduction of summer schedules. A total of 62 airlines operate between...

At a time when Japan is once again experiencing a boom in tourist arrivals, the authorities are trying to speed up the process of entering the country in order to avoid overcrowding at its airports. On average, the waiting time for a foreign traveller arriving in Japan is around an hour. A programme to speed up formalities has been introduced...

Cathay Pacific seems to have finally emerged from the turmoil into which the airline had plunged since 2020. First with the political crisis in Hong Kong and China's control of the semi-autonomous territory; then with the Covid health crisis. According to the airline's management, "the primary objective...

The Cité de l'Architecture in Paris is presenting a fine exhibition on the chief architect of Aéroports de Paris, Paul Andreu, until 2 June 2024. The retrospective retraces the career and work of this engineer, who became an architect in the exclusive service of Aéroports de Paris. His first project was the design of a new airport terminal in...

For ADP, Paris-Orly must undergo a long-term transformation in line with its territory. In its Orly 2035 project, the Group stresses that the aim is never to increase the number of movements at the airport. Excess traffic will have to be handled within the existing structures, which will have to be redeveloped and enlarged. According to the Paris Orly 2035 project, the reduction...

It's a surprise in Vueling's expansion strategy. The Spanish airline is launching a symbolic route: Paris Orly-London Heathrow. The daily service, scheduled to start on 7 April, will take off from Paris between 12.00 and 13.30 (with times varying from day to day), with an introductory fare of €35 for...

The next two Aviation-Event conferences will be held on 15 March in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, followed by Chisinau, Moldova, on 30 May. The first will focus on the environment and, above all, the integration of AI into airport services. The second will focus on Moldova as an aviation market and the future of aviation in the Balkans...

2023 was a very good year for Vienna airport, which continued to dominate Central and Eastern Europe in terms of traffic. The Austrian hub welcomed 29.53 million passengers, beating by far the traffic recorded at Warsaw airport (18.5 million passengers), Budapest (14.7 million passengers) and...

The year 2024 has brought some changes to Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (BBI). Since 1 January, the FBB airport management company has been responsible for passenger and baggage screening at the airport instead of the federal police force. It is therefore responsible for the organisation, management, implementation and...

A whole new world is opening up to business travellers in 2024. Singapore Changi airport is due to introduce biometric passenger screening, including facial recognition, this year. The combination of the two technologies will eliminate the need for passengers to present passports and boarding passes. Full biometrics is the first step...

Venice may seem frozen in time, but that's not quite the case for its railway lines. Two parallel projects will offer new connections for the former City of the Doges with its neighbours and its airport. The first is a project for a high-speed train between Venice, Trieste and Ljubljana...