airports

A major surprise in Asia: the region's busiest international airport in 2020 will now be Seoul Incheon in Korea. The hub has dethroned Hong Kong, which is now probably the fourth, if not the fifth busiest international airport on the continent. The first figures for Asia's airports come on...

At a time when Parisian transport - and in particular services to Orly and Paris-CDG airports - does not always get a good press, RATP has chosen Orlyval to introduce a "world first in LCD": four intelligent windows have been installed on one of the shuttles since 26 January, with the other seven Orlyval trains due to be...

Munich is Germany's second-largest airport, with almost 48 million passengers in 2019. Its growth has been exponential, with passenger traffic up by almost 40% between 2010 and 2019. This growth has been supported by Lufthansa, which has made Munich its second hub. The airport is regularly...

Biometrics, contactless applications, self check-in: the pandemic is accelerating the digitalisation of the passenger journey in planes and airports. Robots and biometrics for the post-covid era Contactless technology, biometrics, robots: spurred on by the pandemic, the digitalisation of the passenger journey is gathering pace (13 October 2020). Digital technology to the rescue of passengers The ACI (Airports...

Will we be able to make duty-free purchases between the UK and the rest of the world in 2021? The answer is yes. Passengers will still be able to make duty-free purchases in Duty-Free Shops. The announcement even comes with some good news. Travellers between the EU and Great Britain will once again be able to buy alcohol and tobacco tax-free,...

Berlin's new Brandenburg International BER airport is decidedly unlucky. Not only has its opening been delayed by a decade, but its debut is taking place at one of the worst times in the history of aviation. The covid pandemic continues to have a dramatic effect on passenger demand. The second wave of...

On 9 December, Air Canada announced the launch of biometric boarding: a first for a Canadian carrier departing from the United States. The airline chose San Francisco airport for the launch, but other US hubs should be involved "in the near future". Passenger volunteers - this new boarding format...

Olivier Jankovec, Director General of ACI Europe, made a bitter assessment last week at the virtual congress of European airports. The overall figures, including data up to 15 November, show that passenger traffic at European airports fell by 81 %. A symbolic threshold was crossed on 15 November....

Business travellers on the Lufthansa and Swiss networks are about to discover a new travel route for their business trips via Frankfurt and Munich. The two German airports will be the first to offer the new biometric system adopted by Star Alliance. It is based on the NEC I:Delight biometrics and identity management software developed by...

The situation remains difficult for air traffic departing from Paris. So says the ADP Group in its latest traffic analysis. In October, the two Paris hubs of Orly and Roissy-CDG welcomed 2.3 million passengers. This represents a fall in traffic of 75.6 % compared with...

The return of curfews and population reconfinements in an increasing number of European countries should result in a further slowdown in air traffic. And exacerbate the risk of insolvency for many regional airports in the coming months. This is the alarmist assessment of ACI-Europe, which predicts the disappearance of airports altogether...

How has traffic in Brussels fared since the start of the pandemic? Léon Verhallen - It will come as no surprise to anyone that traffic has literally collapsed. At the end of September we welcomed 5.85 million passengers, compared with 20.1 million for the same period in 2019. We had seen a recovery with the...

The ADP group, which manages the Paris airports, has revised its traffic forecasts for 2020 downwards. The second wave of the covid pandemic sweeping across Europe is expected to result in a fall in passenger traffic of between 65% and 70% for the whole of 2020. Previous forecasts were still betting...

Since Thursday 22 October, Marseille Provence airport has been the first French hub to be equipped with the new antigen tests, which promise to provide passengers with the results in less than 20 minutes. Officials at the Marseille hub say that this trial phase will be rapidly followed by official deployment. This is scheduled for Monday 26...

At a recent seminar, Dave Thomson, Skyscanner's senior technology expert, sketched out what travel could be like in the post-Covid era. The expert predicts an increase in contactless technology, scanner identification, pre-booked security checks, health kiosks, disinfection robots and even...

Available only on the Apple App Store for the time being, Check & Fly should soon be available on Android smartphones. The app allows airports to communicate to passengers the measures they should expect, helping them to comply with health and safety requirements. "The resumption of air travel will depend on the confidence...

The images seem to belong to another era. And yet it was only a year ago... At the time, airline advertisements showed business travellers relaxing at the bar in an airport lounge, flight attendants transforming an armchair into a comfortable bed. Since then, a disaster has struck the air transport industry and...

When it comes to planning a trip, travellers today have two major concerns. Could borders suddenly close during the trip? Or could the ticket finally be cancelled for lack of passengers? Fortunately, the Paris Orly-Berlin Tegel flight offered by easyJet on 11 August will not be one of them. Back on 23 July, the British low-cost carrier confirmed...

A biometric journey from home to the plane: that's the promise of Mona, the new high-tech travel companion offered by Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport. Thanks to this free 100 % service, travellers will be able to pass through the various airport checkpoints, from baggage drop-off to boarding, without any physical contact, simply by presenting their faces...

This is the information that the Eurocontrol agency reveals every week. For several weeks now, Amsterdam Schiphol has been the airport with the highest number of aircraft movements in Europe. On Wednesday 26 August, the Dutch hub recorded 772 aircraft movements, up 2% on the week of 12 August. Amsterdam thus overtakes...