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Leeds City Council stated (11-Feb-2021) Leeds Bradford Airports planning application was approved on 11-Feb-2021. Leeds City Council stated: "The airports plans showed that the proposed new terminal would replace the outdated and inefficient existing terminal and be built to a higher standard of environmental performance that would also provide an improved gateway to Leeds, with an associated creation of new jobs". The approval is subject to "a change and tightening up of certain conditions be...

12-Feb-2021 4:18 PM Lagardère Travel Retail wins exclusive contract for two duty free stores at Dar Es Salaam Airport T3 Lagardère Travel Retail announced (09-Feb-2021) it won an exclusive concession with Tanzania Airports Authority for two duty free stores in the new Dar Es Salaam International Airport Terminal 3, through a JV with local distributor Bevco Ltd. Under the agreement, Lagardère and Bevco will build and operate the two stores totalling 206sqm and 160sqm respectively, fea...

Direct News Source The national airports authority AENA is part of a consortium including Iberia, Inetum, and Thales, carrying out an innovation project to find new ways to operate in the air travel industry with health measures to fight Covid-19. Facial Recognition Pilot Project at Madrid Airport Evolves into Broader Contactless Passenger Experience The AENA airports authority, Iberia, Inetum and Thales partner in this ambitious project, supported by Spain’s Industrial Technology Development...

Ireland West Airport will be eligible to apply for funding under the programme, which has a budget of EUR21.3 million in 2021. The programme provides both capital and operational support to airports and provides funding for contracted daily services under an existing Public Service Obligation. The Department of Transport is also engaging with the European Commission to advance further schemes, in line with the package of supports for Irish aviation that were announced by the government in Nov-2...

Lima Airport Partners (LAP) launched (05-Feb-2021) the tender process for the construction of Lima Jorge Chavez International Airports new passenger terminal. The winner of the contract will be responsible for designing and constructing the terminal. The tender is scheduled to be awarded in 3Q2021 and the terminal is scheduled to be complete in 2025. The design will focus on six concept pillars: Expandability;

US airports funding crunch - are P3s the answer?, stated (04-Feb-2021) the US has failed to sell the idea of leasing airport terminals to the private sector for almost 25 years since the first airport privatisation programme was initiated, but various events have made public private partnerships (P3s) more popular with municipal owners. US municipalities are struggling to find the cash to run their airports, let alone invest in them. A change in regulation in 2018 made private infrastructure fi...

FABEC reports block aircraft movements down 57% in 2020 Functional Airspace Block Europe Central (FABEC) reported (27-Jan-2021) traffic with the block fell 57% year-on-year in 2020, to 2.7 million movement. Total en-route air traffic flow management delay fell 88.6%, and the airport arrival delay fell 82.5% as FABEC ANSPs responded flexibly to schedule disruption. [more - original PR] Want More News Like This? CAPA Membership provides access to all news and analysis on the site, along with acce...

Direct News Source Functional Airspace Block Europe Central (FABEC) traffic tumbled 57% in 2020 to 2.7 million movements as a result of pandemic restrictions and an unwillingness to travel. Responding to the urgent need for medical, cargo and repatriation flights, FABEC air navigation service providers (ANSPs) rapidly put in place COVID-safe measures to provide critical airspace infrastructure and ensure safe and timely flights. Air traffic services continued uninterrupted despite airline fee d...

Direct News Source Total passenger numbers at Brisbane Airport (BNE) for calendar year 2020 were just over 8 million, a 26-year low and down 66% on 2019. International traveller numbers decreased by nearly 5 million to 1.4 million passengers for the calendar year, resulting in a 78 per cent decrease on 2019. More than one million of these arrived in the first two months of the year. Domestic passenger numbers were 6.7 million, a reduction of 62.5% or close to 11.1 million fewer passengers than ...

Government of the Netherlands releases draft of major airspace redesign Government of the Netherlands released (21-Jan-2021) a Draft Preferential Decision presenting the Dutch Airspace Redesign Programme, a widescale revision of Dutch airspace for the future. The redesign programme includes closer collaboration between civil and military aviation, which will allow for more efficient use of airspace capacity, shorter air corridors, more efficient airport approaches and an overall reduction in fu...