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London City Airport Deal Shows Infrastructure Investors’ Willing to Pay Up for Smaller Airports

Infrastructure investors are hot on the trail of airport assets and are willing to pay a premium, even for secondary and regional airports. Emblematic of this quest is the deal reached by a consortium that included Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Borealis Infrastructure to acquire London...

Gatwick Airport runway closed to all flights after spillage

Passengers faced long delays and diverted flights after the runway at Gatwick was closed because of a spillage. No flights were able to land or take off at the West Sussex airport after a plane was believed to have dropped oil on Monday morning. At least 18 incoming flights were diverted to ot...

easyJet links London Southend with Paris CDG

easyJet entered into the congested London to Paris market on 26 February, starting a four times weekly A319 operation between London Southend (SEN) and Paris CDG (CDG). The LCC will join London-Paris incumbents offering 184 weekly rotations ‒ Air France (which flies London Heathrow to Paris CDG 46 times weekly), British Airways (Heathrow to CDG 53 times weekly and Paris Orly 27 times weekly) a...

Thai planning A350 services to Melbourne from July

Thai Airways looks set to the be second Airbus A350 operator to Australia with flights to Melbourne scheduled to feature the next generation widebody from July. A report from the Airline Route website said the Star Alliance member opened reservations for its Bangkok-Melbourne service with the A350 over the weekend. Currently, Thai flies twice daily between Melbourne and Bangkok with Boe...

SA opens solar-powered airport

Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has congratulated the Department of Transport on the official opening of South Africa’s - and Africa’s - first solar-powered airport in George. Transport Minister Dipuo Peters launched the project that is spearheaded by the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) at a special ceremony in the city on Friday. Most of the airport’s en...

Julius Nyerere International Airport looks forward to new terminal

The managing director of Tanzania Tourist Board Devota Mdachi has expressed her gratitude to the ongoing construction of terminal three of Julius Nyerere International Airport. During a visit to the site she noted the new facility will attract more international airline to the destination of Tanzania once is fully completed and begins operating. Mdachi made this observation recently after vi...

Qantas to begin work on luxury lounge at London Heathrow

London is the location for Qantas’ next flagship global lounge, with construction on a new, dedicated facility at Heathrow Airport to begin in September 2016. The premium lounge will occupy a split-level space in Terminal 3 that will have capacity for approximately 230 people and offer views over the Heathrow airfield when it opens in early 2017. Its design will combine the signature f...

Canadian consortium buys London City airport for £2bn

Group led by Ontario Teachers’ pension fund and HS1 investor Borealis, saw off strong competition to purchase the capital’s smallest airport. London City Airport has been sold to a Canadian consortium for around £2bn. The airport in Docklands largely serves a clientele of business executives and has been bought by a consortium led by the Ontario Teachers’ pension...

Mexico City's New Airport on a Lake

The collapse of oil prices and consequent loss of oil-related revenues have forced the government of Enrique Peña Nieto to considerably scale down its plans for grandiose infrastructure projects. However, one mega-project remains on drawing boards: a new international airport for Mexico City (referred to locally by its Spanish acronym, NAICM). As is the trend these days for any city with gl...

Concourse D opens at Dubai International Airport boosting capacity to 90 million

Dubai International Airport today opened its new Concourse D, which it said will boost the airport’s capacity to 90 million passengers per year from 75 million. The concourse, part of a US$1.2 billion investment to enhance service and capacity, is linked to the newly-renovated Terminal 1 by an airport train that can transport 300 passengers per trip. The opening comes after months of i...

Air Serbia New York flights now on sale

Air Serbia, the national airline of the Republic of Serbia, has announced that tickets for its historic new service to New York are now on sale. The announcement was made by Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister of Serbia, during this morning’s opening of the 38th International Tourism Fair in Belgrade, the largest annual tourism event in the Balkans. The Prime Minister was accompanied by S...

easyJet adds 85,000 extra seats from London Luton Airport to Amsterdam and Barcelona this summer

easyJet has announced it has added 12 weekly summer flights from London Luton Airport to Amsterdam and Barcelona and an extra daily flight to Zurich next winter. easyJet, Europe’s leading airline, has today announced it has added 12 weekly summer flights from London Luton Airport to Amsterdam and Barcelona and an extra daily flight to Zurich next winter. An extra 85,000 seats between L...

Ryanair unveils new routes from Scotland

Ryanair has announced a number of new international destinations from Scotland in its 2016 winter schedule. The budget airline will launch six new twice-weekly services from Edinburgh later this year. Destinations from the capital will include Bologna, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Gran Canaria, Palma and Poznan. There will also be more flights in the winter schedule to Alicante, Barcelona, Copen...

Emirates to cover longest NZ flight in shortest time

Emirates Airline's first non-stop service between Auckland and Dubai will be one of the longest air routes in the world by distance, but with the assistance of clever technology and good planning, passengers will get to their destination in the shortest possible time. According to a press release issued today, Emirates said it will be using flexible routes, which can vary by day, taking adv...

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