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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...

33.19 million passengers at Roissy-CDG, 15.96 million passengers at Orly in the first half of 2024. While the two Paris airports continue to record an increase in passenger traffic (totalling 49.1 million), this growth has slowed considerably compared with last year. The two hubs recorded respectively 4.4% and 4.2% of...

On 2 July 2024, the Association of European Airports (ACI Europe) published its report on the connectivity of the airport industry in Europe. The report, unveiled at ACI Europe's 34th Annual Conference and General Meeting, uses connectivity indices created by SEO Amsterdam Economics and offers the most comprehensive tool for assessing and...

He certainly wouldn't have asked for as much. Silvio Berlusconi, the populist former Italian prime minister who died last year, will soon have his name attached to Milan international airport. The former Italian finance and media magnate could thus join other historic Italian personalities associated with airports. Following in the footsteps of Marco Polo for...

The annual Skytrax ranking of the world's best airports is the equivalent of the Cannes Film Festival. Awards are handed out to the world's best airports. Including a string of prizes designed to please everyone! Some of the highlights of the awards...

With 9.5 million passengers expected by 2023, Milan Linate is one of the first major airports in Europe to become 100% biometric for passenger identity checks. In cooperation with French aeronautical equipment supplier Thales and Swiss security firm Dormakaba, Milan's airport management company SEA has just launched the first biometric...

ACI Europe, the organisation of European airports, has just published its air traffic report for March and the first quarter of 2024. With the upturn in traffic trends, the association has revised its passenger traffic forecast for 2024 as a whole. Passenger traffic for European airports has...

Updated on 25 April at 10am. Will the strike that was due to paralyse French skies on Thursday 25 April be as extensive as announced? The SNCTA (Syndicat National des Contrôleurs du Trafic Aérien - National Union of Air Traffic Controllers) had in fact called for a 24-hour strike, in protest at a new version of a protocol deemed "unacceptable"...

A year, or even the equivalent of two years' rainfall in less than a day: the torrential rains that hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman yesterday have caused massive flooding in many Gulf countries. In Dubai, while schools will remain closed until the end of the week,...

For almost ten years now, Nannybag has been giving its users peace of mind when travelling anywhere in the world, thanks to its collaborative luggage storage service provided by partner retailers. Now the start-up is offering a new option, this time for air passengers. It has joined forces with Safe Bag, a leading...

Toulouse-Blagnac recorded more than 7.8 million passengers in 2023, an increase of 11%. However, this figure is still almost 19% lower than 2019, which recorded 9.6 million passengers. Bruno Balerdi explains why... Toulouse airport is experiencing a slower recovery than other French airports. What are the...

Dossier written by Florian Guillemin and Arnaud Deltenre 1 April traditionally provides an opportunity to stimulate everyone's creativity when it comes to fake news. But sometimes reality is more than fiction. On Saint Hugh's Day, it's tempting to look back at these often zany, sometimes dramatic, but all very real misfires.

Less than 1%! This is the proportion of passengers at Orly and Roissy airports who waited more than 45 minutes to pass through border police controls. A good result just revealed by the Direction de la Police aux Frontières in cooperation with the ADP Group. The...