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29.1 million passengers in its terminals by 2021. Dubai International Airport (DXB) has seen some recovery over the past year, although growth remains disappointing. As elsewhere in the world, air traffic at the Middle East's leading hub had to contend with successive waves of the pandemic. Above all, the airport was...

"Resolutely confident", "Results beyond our forecasts": on the occasion of the publication of the 2021 results, the management of Caen airport sent out "positive vibes" to an aviation market that is emerging from a particularly gloomy period. It has to be said that the Normandy hub has indeed bounced back...

What are the key points of the Air Transport IT Insights 2021 report published by SITA? Sergio Colella - This report shows that Covid is playing a role in accelerating digitalisation. We see this in our everyday lives, and inevitably in the air transport sector. For almost ten years now, we have been interviewing...

We console ourselves as best we can. Recently, Channel News Asia was singing the praises of Singapore Changi airport. It has to be said that CNA is an emanation of the Singaporean government. So it's only fair that the channel should support an institution like Changi. CNA headlined the story...

Germany's 28 commercial airports welcomed just over 78.7 million passengers in 2021, the second year of the pandemic. The German Airports Association ADV considers this a success - even if the 2021 figures are still a long way off the record set in 2019. German airport traffic is still...

While speculation is rife over ITA's capital, the Italian airline is working to enhance the travel experience for its business customers. This is illustrated by the opening of the "Piazza di Spagna" lounges at Rome Fiumicino airport and the "Piazza della Scala" at Milan Linate, announced on 19 January. The latter has taken up residence...

According to figures released on 17 January by the ADP Group, total traffic at all the airports managed by the ADP Group rose by 37.2 % in 2021, with 160.0 million passengers handled. This represents 45.6 % of the Group's traffic for 2019. However, the results at...

Air traffic at Geneva Cointrin continued to be affected by the Covid 19 pandemic in 2021. Geneva Airport welcomed 5.92 million passengers in 2021, compared with 5.60 million in 2020. This is 5.8% more than in 2020 but 67% less passenger traffic than in 2019. That year, the airport...

A fine result despite the restrictions that continued to hit the air transport industry in 2021. That's how we can describe the performance of Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Qatar. The airport is the second largest hub in the Middle East behind eternal rival Dubai. In 2021, HIA recorded an increase of 41.37% in traffic...

An upturn, but no flamboyant figures for 2021. That's how you might characterise last year's traffic figures at Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) airport, one of the very first hubs in Europe to report results. In 2020, the airport welcomed just over 9 million passengers. Including 5.6 million...

ACI Europe, the European airports association, has published the first preliminary data on the impact of the Omicron variant on European passenger traffic. Following South Africa's public announcement of the new variant to the WHO, it is estimated that in the 3-week period that followed (weeks 47 to 49), passenger traffic in...

The reopening of the United States to European travellers in 2022 should generate a strong flow of traffic between the two continents. This is the gamble being taken by most of the airlines serving this strategic route. This is particularly true of British Airways. The British carrier operates its transatlantic routes as part of a joint venture,...

As a result of the pandemic, international airports are adjusting their R&D priorities: after working on a seamless passenger experience, with biometrics in particular to speed up every stage of the airport journey, the time has now come for contactless technology. Nice airport is no exception to the rule, with the launch on 6 December of its...

What was the state of air transport in France at the end of September? The good news is that passenger traffic is picking up again and seems to be out of the rut seen between February and April. During this period, traffic was barely 10% of what it was in 2019... September certainly saw a slowdown in the number of...

"Urban Blue" is the name of the new company unveiled on 26 October by four airports, including a leading French hub. Nice airport has joined forces with its counterparts in Rome, Venice and Bologna to accelerate the development of vertiports, from their design to their...

Berlin's new airport once again hit the headlines on TV and in print in Germany last weekend. Last weekend, Europe's most talked-about airport found itself at the centre of yet another controversy. October 12 marked the start of the autumn holidays in Germany, and some passengers had to wait for their flight...

Business travellers to London now have a new option to simplify their journey. The British media are reporting a new partnership between Heathrow Express and Google Maps. The American giant's mapping service is now able to provide real-time information on rail services to the hub...

Inaugurated in mid-July, following a £1 billion (€1.16 billion) construction phase, Manchester Airport's new Terminal 2 is now home to more than a dozen carriers. The two latest arrivals are none other than Air France and KLM, who join other major players,...

Nice airport has finally exceeded its 2020 traffic figures. With growth of 38% in August alone, France's second-busiest airport now boasts a 2% increase in total passenger numbers since January. Nice will have welcomed almost 3.5 million passengers between January and August...

British Airways has considerably reduced its presence at London's second airport, Gatwick, in recent years. The airline now operates only a few long-haul flights, mainly to leisure destinations. But it nevertheless wants to return to the South London hub as restrictions are gradually lifted, and to define a strategy for...