The operators of Frankfurt and Zurich airports, both major Lufthansa hubs, reported earnings last week. For Frankfurt, owned by Fraport, this summer's shorthaul seat capacity will still be down about 20 percent from where it was in the summer of...
Read MoreKLM, Delta, EasyJet, Corendon, and TUI filed suit against the Dutch government last week over its plans to cut flights at Amsterdam Schiphol. The airlines, with the support of trade group IATA, claim that the planned capacity cuts violate EU...
Read MoreKansas City's airport set February 28 as the opening date for a passenger new terminal it hopes will accommodate and drive more traffic growth. The 39-gate facility will replace a multi-terminal layout that made it difficult to handle connecting traffic....
Read MoreAfter nearly a year of capacity restrictions, and one very chaotic summer, Amsterdam's Schiphol airport will sunset its cap on passengers at the end of the IATA winter season on March 26. This will allow airlines, notably KLM, to recover...
Read MoreSpanish airport operator Aena handled nearly 243 million passengers last year, or 88.5 percent of 2019 levels, it reported last week. Notably, passenger numbers through its 46 airports in December were at 98 percent of three years earlier. Madrid Barajas,...
Read MoreLos Angeles International Airport is moving forward with two long anticipated terminal expansions aimed at boosting capacity ahead of the 2028 Olympics at one of the busiest airports in the U.S. The nine-gate Concourse 0, an eastern extension of Terminal 1, and...
Read MoreThe U.S. Federal Aviation Administration gave its blessing to the planned $8.5 billion expansion of Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The program, dubbed O'Hare 21, includes a new "Global Terminal" to replace Terminal 2, an expanded Terminal 5, and two new...
Read MoreWashingtonians have pined for the day they can take the train to Dulles International Airport for nearly six decades. That day, finally, arrived last week. The local Metro system begins revenue passenger rail service to the airport around 2 p.m....
Read MoreFrench airport operator Vinci, which owns terminals around the world, said passenger numbers "continued to accelerate in Q3" at almost all of its facilities. "Momentum was strong in Europe, South America, and the Caribbean," it said, adding that traffic volumes...
Read MoreDrive down San Diego’s Otay Mesa Freeway and suburban development gives way to a landscape of warehouses and logistics centers along the U.S.-Mexico border. But in the middle of this anywhere-and-nowhere landscape sits a stucco terminal building with a busy...
Read MoreZurich Airport, in its latest earnings call, gave an update on the new airport in India’s capital that it's helping to build. Development of Delhi’s new Noida International Airport is “proceeding to plan,” with scheduled completion targeted for the end...
Read MoreNew capacity caps at London Heathrow and Frankfurt airports are the latest blows to European air travel this summer. But the needed flight cancellations are small compared to what the industry has already undertaken, and may help drive some European airlines back...
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