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Following a fire inside Terminal 1 at New York's JFK airport on Thursday 16 February, the terminal was closed to the public. Many flights were diverted to other terminals at JFK. They were also diverted to other airports in the region, such as Newark, Boston and Washington Dulles. Several international flights...

The West wing was built in 2000, mainly for flights to the Schengen area - except France - and the East wing will be inaugurated in December 2021 for intercontinental and non-Schengen flights. On the airside, Geneva's terminal offers the same reception and comfort conditions as Europe's major international airports. It is on the city side that the problem lies. The...

18.93 million passengers. This is the number of passengers announced by Brussels airport last year. This represents an increase of 102% compared with 2021 (9.4 million passengers). With this number of passengers, the Belgian airport posted traffic that was only 28% below its record for 2019. Before the Covid crisis, Brussels...

A rather favourable year. This is how the management of Munich airport sees the results for the hub in 2022. The Bavarian capital's airport, the second largest hub for German airline Lufthansa, has seen its traffic jump by 153.2%. That's 19 million more passengers between 2021 and...

After the two weekly flights between Montpellier and Madrid launched by Transavia France this winter, the airport in the Occitan region will now benefit from two new routes to major European hubs for the summer 2023 season. BA Euroflyer, a British Airways subsidiary based at London Gatwick, will be the first to launch three weekly flights...

Saudi Arabia's Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman has just announced the master plan for King Salman International Airport, Saudi Arabia's future air hub. The plan will strengthen Riyadh's position as a global logistics centre, boosting transport, trade and tourism, and should serve as a bridge between the East and the West...

Nice-Côte d'Azur airport is facing a veritable festival of new and reopened routes this winter. The programme, which includes 22 new routes, confirms the upward trend at France's second-largest airport. In fact, over the first ten months of 2022, Nice welcomed 10.57 million...

The Dubai Airports Authority has for the second time revised upwards its passenger traffic estimates for 2022 for Dubai International Airport (DXB), the Emirate's main hub. The new forecast is for 64.3 million passengers. This revision follows the airport's excellent performance in the third quarter...

This is a historic event for Washington Dulles airport. All the more so as the hub for all the federal capital's international flights recently celebrated its 60th anniversary. On 15 November, Washington Dulles inaugurated its own metro station called "Washington Dulles International Airport". A slower metro line...

Inflation, economic difficulties and the war in Ukraine are clouding the short-term outlook for London Heathrow airport. This was the underlying message from the authorities at Europe's leading hub when they presented their results for the first three quarters of 2022. It is true that the airport has returned to a high rate of growth, with...

Who would have thought that one day Amsterdam Schiphol airport would be pilloried by hordes of passengers furious at the way they are treated? And by its main customer, KLM? Since this spring, nothing has gone right for the airport. The fault lies with a lack of foresight following the covid crisis....

The project to extend Terminal 2 at Nice airport was presented in 2018. At the time, the traffic outlook remained positive, as the Covid crisis had not passed. By 2019, Nice's two terminals had almost reached saturation point, with 14.5 million passengers. Theoretical capacity is set at...

Bad news for passengers departing from Singapore's Changi airport. From 1 November, higher airport charges will affect passengers departing from Changi airport. Passengers on flights departing from Changi currently pay a departure charge of 52.30 $ (€37.11). This consists of a...

Since this summer, Brussels Airport has been offering a new system enabling passengers to check in their own baggage. With their boarding card, passengers on short and medium-haul flights operated by Brussels Airlines, as well as other Lufthansa Group airlines, can now print out their own baggage tags and check in their luggage. The authorities have...

Admittedly, the programme announced by Transavia to Dakar and Istanbul is still too timid for most business travellers. And the low-cost airline makes no secret of the fact that it is targeting "passengers who want to meet up with family and friends and get away to the sun in winter". But the announcement of these two...

In June 2022, Brussels airport returned to more or less normal traffic levels. The Belgian hub recorded 1.73 million passengers, an increase of 1,68% compared with June 2021. However, this still represents a fall of 28% compared with June 2019, before the crisis. The management of...

Hardly a week goes by without London Heathrow airport being pilloried by the British and international media for its disastrous handling of passengers and baggage. And hardly a week goes by without the airport management officially apologising for the inconvenience caused. So the...

While London's Heathrow airport is making headlines in the UK for its interminable queues, the Heathrow Express train service is now offering a major "plus" for its users. 1st class passengers on the 15-minute line between Paddington Station and the UK hub's five terminals will now have access to the...

At a time when Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is grappling with problems of traffic flow management in the face of staff shortages, here is a new episode that the airport hub could have done without. The Dutch government has just announced its intention to reduce the number of aircraft movements at Europe's third-largest intercontinental hub, threatening its role as...

On 14 June, London Heathrow terminal 4 will reopen to passengers for the first time in over two years. The move is part of a plan to increase the airport's capacity. Qatar Airways will be the first airline to move. Around twenty other carriers will follow during the month...