airports

"If they wanted to kill French air transport, they wouldn't have done it any other way". Thomas Juin, Director of La Rochelle Airport but above all President of the Union of French Airports (UAF), is bitterly disappointed. The increase in taxation in 2025 combined with the accelerated withdrawal of the State from its sovereign responsibilities...

Verdi, the German transport union, is striking again. After two regional strikes in Cologne and Hamburg ten days ago, a new 24-hour "warning" strike by airport security staff is scheduled for Monday 10 March. It affects 13 airports in the country. Also...

The German transport union Verdi is striking again this February with its demand for a pay rise in the sector. It's almost become a classic, since it seems that every year now, the first quarter of the year equals a transport strike in the country. It began last Friday...

ADP and Fraport, the operators of the Paris and Frankfurt airports, have released their figures for January. Two opposite trends emerge from these figures. Paris Airports recorded an increase in passenger traffic of 8.7% compared with January 2024. This increase was driven by the performance of Paris CDG (+10.5%) rather than by...

A strike by air traffic controllers and a national demonstration are forcing the Belgian authorities to close airspace altogether. This measure begins at 6.45am on 13 February and is due to be lifted at 10.15pm on Thursday evening. All flights to and from Brussels Airport will be cancelled on Thursday. The...

Let's start with London's air traffic figures. Last year, the British capital confirmed its European leadership in the number of passengers handled at its airports: 177.679 million. Heathrow airport alone accounted for 47.18% of all passengers registered at London's five airports. Last year, its traffic exceeded that of...

This is certainly no coincidence. After the Paris airports, the two largest French airports in terms of passenger traffic are located in the south of France. In 2024, Nice will be back to its pre-covid level, flirting with 15 million passengers. Last year, the Côte d'Azur hub recorded growth of 3.5%,...

As you might expect, the arrival of line 14 at Orly last June has rapidly established itself as the most practical option for many business and leisure travellers. And the Orlybus is a victim of the metro's success. Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) has therefore decided to close the line on 3 March. This...

With more than 7 million passengers in December alone - a record for the airport - Heathrow ended 2024 on a high note. The London hub flirted with the 84 million passenger mark last year, another record for the airport. New...

The Baltic States are clearly harbouring great ambitions to carve out a place for themselves on the international mobility scene. Riga airport is expecting a new terminal and a business district, RIX Airport City, by 2028. And the inauguration of the new Riga-Vilnius train line was celebrated a year ago. And as the year begins...

The year 2024 marked a return to a certain normality in the growth of the Paris airports of Roissy-CDG and Orly. The two hubs saw a 3.7% increase in the total number of passengers, representing a volume of 103.41 million passengers. The passenger growth rate had already exceeded 15% between...

London Heathrow closed 2024 with the unveiling of a €2.8 billion modernisation plan. The plan promised to give a prominent place to decarbonising the airport, but did not describe the concrete implications. At the start of this year, the London hub is giving more substance to this good resolution. The airport management has...

Edinburgh, Belgrade and Santiago de Chile: at these three airports, Vinci Airports can pride itself on having broken all records for passenger numbers in 2024. In early January, the Group unveiled the figures for these three hubs. No sooner had Edinburgh airport joined the Vinci Airports fold - in June 2024 - than it broke all records for...

How would you sum up 2024 for SITA? Sergio Colella - 2024 was an exceptional year for air travel, as confirmed by IATA. Last year we once again reached the pre-Covid figures, with more than 4 billion passengers. SITA naturally benefited from this. For us, it was a...

The EuroAirport is already linked by bus to the SBB (Swiss Federal Railways), SNCF and DB (Deutsche Bahn) rail networks via Basel, Saint-Louis and Freiburg im Breisgau stations. With the new "FREUND" (for "FRankreich-EUroAirport-Navette-Deutschland") link, the stations of Weil am Rhein (Basel) and...

This was the first time Sofia had hosted an international air transport conference. The brainchild of German aviation consultant DA! GmbH, Aviation-Event SOF 2024 highlighted the ambitions of the Bulgarian capital in the European air transport sector. European media were able to find out what the future holds for the Bulgarian capital's airport. And...

Rennes airport will soon have a new destination to attract business travellers. On 25 June, easyJet will be making its debut on the Rennes-Manchester route. The low-cost carrier will offer two flights a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays. Manchester will thus become the fourth destination served from Rennes by easyJet - and the second in the UK...

The Edeis group specialises in infrastructure development, including several for airports. Edeis manages 17 airports in France and the French overseas departments and territories. These are mainly regional hubs, such as Angers, Dijon, Dole, Lorient, Mayotte, Reims and Saint-Martin. Edeis aims to transform some of its hubs into regional mini-hubs....

It was the symbol of a triumphant City of London, with its small planes linking the Docklands district to the whole of Europe. Opened in 1987, London City Airport enjoyed its golden age in the years 2000 and 2010. The hub offered flights to some thirty European cities, as well as a...

They are beautiful, large and rather majestic in their architecture. The two hubs of the national airline Saudia have, on the surface, nothing to envy their regional competitors, those of Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Doha or Dubai. Yet passengers transferring between Saudi Arabia's two main airports are sorely disappointed. Because the...