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It's this week's bad news. Airports Association International (ACI) has just revised its traffic forecasts for 2020. And the picture is even bleaker. Airports Council International (ACI) World has published an updated model showing the worsening economic impact on the global airport industry. The predicted impacts and prolonged effects of...

What concrete physical measures will be taken to comply with health and social safety distances, and are they the same in France and Switzerland? Matthias Suhr - Our absolute priority is to protect the health of our passengers and employees by adapting our operating procedures appropriately. EuroAirport complies...

All passengers arriving in Austria must present a health certificate showing a negative result to the Covid 19 test (no more than 4 days old). Since Monday 4 May, passengers who so wish have been able to undergo a so-called "PCR" test directly at Vienna International Airport - quick and simple, and the result is...

Aéroport Marseille Provence (AMP) is a typical example of an airport company faced with a unique situation: a pandemic leading to the almost complete suspension of air transport. "If you want an idea of our activity, before the crisis we were carrying between 20,000 and 30,000 passengers a day. Today we are...

From the end of April, Etihad will be embarking on an unprecedented experiment in air transport health monitoring. Abu Dhabi airport, the airline's hub, will be equipped with self-service kiosks on which passengers' temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate will be measured....

After London City Airport, which closed its doors last week, it is now London Gatwick's turn to announce the closure of its North Terminal from 1 April. This terminal handled all the flights of the airlines easyJet, Emirates, Qatar Airways and Virgin Atlantic. The airport also operates a reduced schedule, from...

The Russian government is closing its airspace at 0:00 on Friday 27 March, allowing only flights by national carriers to repatriate Russian citizens stranded abroad. The announcement was made at a time when experts believe that Russia could experience an Italian-style scenario without strong quarantine measures. On Wednesday,...

Between 1 and 14 March, the estimated fall in passenger traffic and the number of aircraft movements accelerated at the Paris airports, according to ADP, with an estimated decline of 29 % for the combined traffic of the two airports. But the decline has since accelerated, with the authorities estimating that air traffic...

Despite various recommendations put in place by the Geneva Airport authorities, a very high number of people travelled to the Swiss hub at the beginning of last week, with the closure of ski resorts and borders decreed by the Swiss Confederation. Geneva Airport is therefore stepping up its security measures...

The confinement measures applied in France since Tuesday, the closure of the Schengen area to visitors from outside the European Union and the United Kingdom, and the lifting of European rules on the compulsory use of slots - those famous time slots at the most congested airports - have resulted in a collapse in air traffic....

New measures were unveiled over the weekend to counter the spread of the coronavirus in France. In addition to the closure of all "places open to the public which are not essential to the life of the country", decreed by the Prime Minister on Saturday evening, measures relating to transport are gradually coming into force. Elisabeth Borne and Jean-Baptiste...

From Friday 13 March, the United States will suspend for 30 days all travellers arriving from the Schengen area, or who have stayed in this area during the last 14 days. This measure will initially apply to 26 countries, including France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland, as well as Iceland, France, Italy and Poland....

Despite the quarantine imposed on the whole of Italy since Tuesday morning, Rome Fiumicino airport remains open*, according to a spokesman for the airport contacted on Tuesday. Most airlines are continuing to land at Fiumicino even though, according to him, a number of flights have now been cancelled, notably because of the overall drop in traffic...

Once again it has been officially confirmed. The new Berlin Brandenburg International airport will open on 31 October, which is good news for the German capital, which will finally be able to put behind it the ups and downs that have surrounded the infrastructure since the start of the second millennium. Berlin Brandenburg International will in fact have cost nearly seven billion...

At a time when planes are being emptied of passengers because of the Covid-19 coronavirus, IATA has just officially requested that the slot allocation rules be temporarily suspended. This news might go unnoticed by travellers if it did not lead to a probable drain on airlines. Because slots - those...

Stagnating or even sharply declining passenger traffic for German airports in the fourth quarter of last year: the 2019 financial year is ending much worse than it started for German aviation, according to figures published on Thursday by ADV, the association of German commercial airports. From January to December 2019, the 22 German airports...

When will biometrics become the norm in air travel? Could this mean the digitisation of passports? Barbara Dalibard - The number of biometric devices in airports has almost doubled in the space of a year. Today, this technology is present in 44 % of platforms. The technology is now mature. The question now concerns...

Despite the radical measures taken by the Chinese authorities, the coronavirus has gained ground and taken on an international dimension. On 23 January, the government decided to quarantine the entire city of Wuhan, banning the population from leaving the Wuhan metropolitan area. ALSO READ: "Coronavirus...

10.15 million passengers. Passing the 10 million passenger mark is more than just a symbol for Marseille Provence Marignane airport. According to the airport's management, 2019 saw some of the strongest traffic growth in a decade, with an increase of 8.1%. This growth is essentially due to the strong development of...

Airlines are making their mark at CES, the technology event held every year in Las Vegas. For this 2020 edition, American Airlines has just announced the launch of an automatic translation service. In the same vein, Delta has played the technology card, with a number of major assets. The CEO of...