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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...

The news may have come as a surprise to the Gulf air transport industry last April. The transfer of all traffic from Dubai's current airport to Dubai World Central (also known as Dubai Al Maktoum) will take one of the world's leading airports into a new dimension. A surprise then...

The announcement of an ambitious modernisation plan for Schiphol, made official on 30 August by the airport's management, is based on a simple and honest observation: the Dutch hub is not - or is no longer - living up to passenger expectations. "Every day, our colleagues do everything they can for passengers. They do the...

Is the welcome given to visitors with disabilities at the Olympic and Paralympic Games up to your expectations? Annette Masson - Fortunately, some things have changed. But a lot of things are behind schedule, particularly for economic reasons. We should have given the...

While athletes from all over the world are being rewarded on a daily basis by the Paris 2024 podiums, AirHelp is also taking part in the exercise, in the field of air transport. The air compensation specialist is today sharing its data for the first half of 2024. This represents almost 355,000 flights departing from France...

ACI Europe, the trade association for European airports, has published its air traffic report for June and the first half of 2024. It shows that the continent's airports have finally shaken off the trauma of Covid. Passenger traffic at European airports rose by +9% in the first half of the year.

Passengers had (almost) all got used to it. Since 2006, it has been compulsory to put liquid containers of up to 100 ml in plastic bags. Laptops must also be removed from their bags when going through airport security checks. In recent months, however, security measures have been eased...

No more transiting through Singapore or Kuala Lumpur to go directly to Palembang, the major economic centre of South Sumatra with its million and a half inhabitants. Or to Semarang, the capital of Central Java and a major trading port. From now on, business travellers going to these two cities will have to transit via Jakarta, possibly...

While Paris 2024 is the focus of attention, the next host destination for the Summer Olympics is preparing to welcome the event in the best possible conditions. One example of this is the announcement of a timetable for the launch of the rail link between Los Angeles and its LAX airport. Known as the Automated People Mover (APM), this new link between the destination and LAX...