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The Emirates A380 Touches Down in Nice

Emirates operated its inaugural A380 service to Nice Cote d’Azur International Airport, marking the introduction of the iconic double-decker on the route. Passengers on today’s flight represented travellers from countries across Africa, Australasia, the Middle East and South Asia. Rep...

Hangar construction work underway at London Biggin Hill Airport

Steel construction company REIDsteel has won a new contract to build a 2.2million pound hangar under ambitious expansion plans at London Biggin Hill Airport. The Dorset-based firm will build the 60,000 sq ft structure to provide parking for up to 11 executive business jets together with 10,00...

Cargoes for holding Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix delivered to Baku

Delivery of cargoes for holding Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix to Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku started. More than 600 tons of cargo, including racing cars and equipment needed for their maintenance and organization of the competition, arrived by six flights from Montreal. Two more flights will be operated this week. Flights are operated by cargo airlines Silk Way Ai...

London Biggin Hill extended opening hours welcomed by business aviation community

London Biggin Hill Airport, the only dedicated business aviation airport within the capital, is reporting a significant increase in movements at the airport following the introduction of extended opening hours on May 1. The latest 'Business Aviation INSIGHT' report from WingX Advance shows that since the new operating hours came into effect, the airport has seen an 21% increase in busin...

May Marked a Historic Record of Passenger Traffic in Lithuanian Airports

May 2017 became symbolic in the history of Lithuanian aviation because Lithuanian Airports handled more than half a million passengers, i.e. 13.3% more than during the same period last year, and achieved the best result in the history of Lithuanian aviation. Until now, the record month in terms of the number of passengers was August 2016 when 481,000 passengers, that is, 6% fewer than in May 2017,...

Heydar Aliyev International Airport significantly increased passenger traffic

During January-May 2017, Heydar Aliyev International Airport served 1.37 million passengers, which is 34 percent more than the same period of last year. Only in May 315,000 passengers were served. The BAKU 2017 – 4th Islamic Solidarity Games held in Azerbaijan also affected the significant increase of passenger traffic last month. All civil aviation structures of Azerbaijan provided high-...

Consolidation of Sheremetyevo International Airport JSC assets completed

May 31, 2017 witnessed the virtual completion of the second stage of the consolidation of Sheremetyevo International Airport JSC assets: the reorganization took place in the form of the merger of Sheremetyevo Airport JSC with Sheremetyevo International Airport JSC (based on the respective resolutions of the general shareholders’ meetings of&n...

Infrastructure must keep pace with additions to India’s aircraft fleet

India is set to become the third-largest buyer of planes in the world, which could push its airlines into larger losses, an aviation consultancy has said. The number of aircraft on order by Indian carriers is expected to soon exceed 1,000 and only the United States and China have more orders on their books, research by Capa India, an aviation advisory firm, shows. "Low-cost carriers acc...

airBaltic Launches Flights Between Riga and Gothenburg

The Latvian airline airBaltic today, on June 1, 2017, relaunched a direct route linking Riga with the second largest city in Sweden – Gothenburg. The route offers convenient travel options for travellers from Sweden and Baltic States, as well as complements already exiting route from Riga to Stockholm, Arlanda airport. Wolfgang Reuss, SVP of Network Management of airBaltic: “We are...

Kaunas Airport is getting ready to become the capital of flights in Lithuania

From temporary departure and arrival terminals that are being built to additional aircraft parking – preparations for the significantly increased passenger flow are in full swing at Kaunas Airport. The temporary infrastructure that is being created and the airport apron that is being reconstructed at the moment will allow Kaunas to handle flights and passengers transferred from Vilnius Airpo...

Air BP bolsters its presence in the Southeast of England with a new location at Redhill Aerodrome

Air BP, the international aviation fuel products and service supplier has bolstered its presence in the Southeast of England with the addition of a new location at Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey (KRG\EGKR). With immediate effect, Air BP will be the sole fuel provider of Jet A-1, AL48 and Avgas at the aerodrome. With access across the southeast of England, Redhill is ideally suited for both business a...

XLR Executive Jet Centres (XLR) Acquires Corporate Jet centre at Birmingham Airport

XLR is to signiﬁcantly expand its operations following the acquisition of the Marshall’s 24/7 corporate aviation facilities at Birmingham Airport. The executive aviation specialist is now poised for signiﬁcant growth as it prepares to engage with a range of new markets and opportunities from one of the UK’s busiest executive ﬂight destinations. The deal, which will see it take...

Aeroports de la Cote d'Azur, Vnukovo 3 and Pulkovo 3 sign partnership agreement

Senior airport officials from Vnukovo 3 in Moscow, Pulkovo 3 in Saint Petersburg, Russia and Aeroports de la Cote d'Azur (АСА), representing the Nice airport VIP terminal and Sky Valet FBO network in France, Spain and Portugal have signed an LOI linking into a "partnership agreement." The agreement was signed by Georgy Sharov, chairman of the board, Vnukovo 3, Sergey Pugjn, CEO Pulko...

Piaggio Aerospace and Riviera Airport unveils plans to create a new strategic centre

At the opening day of EBACE 2017, Riviera Airport - historical airport with a strategic position in Villanova d’Albenga (Liguria region) and co-exhibiting with Piaggio Aerospace -unveils plans to create a strategic and exclusive centre of general & business aviation in the Northern Mediterranean. The project consists of the creation of a new runway, the offer of new infrastructure...

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