airports

With another day of general strikes against pension reform - the tenth - scheduled for Thursday 6 April, business travel in France is likely to be disrupted, but to a lesser extent than during previous strikes. As far as air travel is concerned, the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) is not forecasting any disruption...

Since the beginning of 2023, Aéroports de Paris (ADP Group) and the Border Police (PAF) have entered a new era together: one of cooperation that aims to be both qualitative and quantitative. On the latter point, a new tool has been put in place, with a brand new...

Business travellers can expect major disruption to their journeys to and from London Heathrow airport at the end of the month. A pay dispute is due to lead to a ten-day strike. More than 1,400 security staff have voted in favour of the strike. It will begin on Friday 31 March, and will last...

After announcing an ambitious airport lounge strategy last year, Delta is rejuvenating and expanding its Delta Sky Club catalogue. The airline has just inaugurated a new lounge at Kansas City. The airport recently completed a major renovation project costing 1.5 billion dollars. "...

A black day for Lufthansa and Frankfurt airport. The German carrier and its hub were severely disrupted on Wednesday by a computer breakdown. This led to the suspension of most landings and the cancellation of many flights. In order to avoid any speculation linked to the geopolitical context, the two players involved quickly...

The results for 2019 are still a long way off for the major airports in South-East Asia. But all the region's hubs returned to growth last year, putting an end to the vertiginous fall in passenger traffic that they had experienced in 2021. On average, passenger traffic at these major airports rose by...

It's time to take stock at Caen-Carpiquet airport, whose management presented its 2022 results on 31 January. The Caen hub had a good year, welcoming no fewer than 301,395 passengers last year. Caen-Carpiquet therefore significantly exceeded the traffic forecast for 2021, with growth of almost 33%. Above all,...

The arrival of the tramway at Bordeaux Mérignac airport is becoming clearer. This 25 January marked the start of unladen trial runs. The aim is to inaugurate this new 5 km section, which will include as many new stations, in the spring. These are Mérignac Soleil, Chemin Long, Cadera Issartier, Caroline Aigle and...

Things are - at last - getting back to normal at Europe's airports. At least, that's the message from Schiphol's management. Amsterdam airport will soon be lifting the restrictions that still cap its traffic. With the start of the summer season on 26 March, the Dutch hub will no longer be setting any limits...

2022 has been a year of recovery for air transport around the world, and particularly in Europe. But, at the same time, it will also have been the year of chaos in air transport management. Staff shortages, strikes and adverse weather conditions will have particularly affected passengers on...

Panic in American skies. On Tuesday night, the Notice to Air Missions system (NOTAM) broke down. A major failure, which forced the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) to cancel all take-offs from American airports for several hours. "The FAA ordered...

A tweet from Fnaut Ile-de-France, the transport users' association, has once again put the spotlight on the Orly TGV station project. Alain Krakovitch, Director of TGV-Intercités, also "liked" the tweet. Unlike previous projects, which placed the station as close as possible to or even underneath the southern Paris airport,...

What are the Aéroports de la Côte d'Azur Group's priorities for 2023? What objectives in terms of passenger traffic or airlines present in Nice? Franck Goldnadel - The Group's priority is to support the upturn in air traffic at all our hubs, while taking environmental issues into account. The...

Travelling by plane also means having to put up with the inconvenience of security rules for hand luggage checks. The requirement to limit liquid containers to 100 ml and to remove all electronic devices from hand luggage seems unavoidable. And yet... In Japan, for example, it has been a long time since...

Two lounges, two atmospheres: while Delta Air Lines is tightening the conditions of access to its Sky Club catalogue, Star Alliance is gradually opening the doors of its lounges to passengers of all classes. And for the first time in Europe. After Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles, it is now the turn of...

Barely open to the public, the recently renovated Terminal 1 at Roissy Charles de Gaulle is temporarily hosting the operations of Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific. Since 8 December, the Chinese carrier's aircraft have been landing and departing from this terminal. Passengers will now check in at Hall 1 of Terminal...

London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and Glasgow: these are the airports that will be affected by the Border Force agents' strike. The strike begins on 23 December and will last for eight days. December 27 should not be affected. According to Cirium data relayed by Reuters, these are...

There is, of course, the symbolic dimension. That of the reopening of a legendary terminal - it will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in 2024 - at a major hub, after almost three years of closure due to a health crisis. There is also, from the point of view of passengers, a very pragmatic importance: that of access to...

From major international hubs to smaller hubs, the decarbonisation drive at French airports is mobilising the entire industry. So much so that international bodies are now hailing the exemplary role played by French airports, as was the case at the fourth annual congress of French airports &...

Following on from the SNCF, which recently announced a major photovoltaic electricity purchase contract, the ADP group has just seen the materialisation of an agreement signed in February 2020 with producer Urbasolar and GazelEnergie, an electricity supplier specialising in the aggregation of renewable energies. While the contract provided for the creation of three photovoltaic solar farms, the...