Moscow Domodedovo Airport is participating in the Routes Silk Road 2014, which brought together about 300 delegates – representatives from over 35 airlines and 45 airports – in the Georgian capital. In the context of the aviation forum, several hundred pre-approved meetings and presentations by two dozen reputable professionals in the field of...

On July 8th, 2014, the management of SP “Terminal B Sheremetyevo” and SP “Sheremetyevo Inter-Terminal Passage” signed with AECOM two project management agreements for construction of a new Terminal B of the Northern terminal complex (NTC) and Inter-Terminal Passage (passenger and luggage tunnels between STC and...

The first stage of the new restructuring programme has come to an end at Polish Airports. The end of June saw nearly 500 employees go. Polish Airports’ employees are resigning under a Voluntary Redundancy Programme, agreed with trade unions. At the end of June employment at the company dropped by 485 jobs and by the end of the...

Chopin Airport handled over 1,073,000 passengers in June 2014, a slight fall year-on-year (down 0.2%). In total, the airport has handled nearly 4.82 million travelers since the beginning of the year, including over 4.23 million on international flights (down 5.9%) and nearly 585,000 domestically (up 9.4%). The number of passenger aircraft...

Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport has completed spring investments cycle mainly related to the infrastructure improvement. Total investment of around EUR 3.6 million is carried out from own resources without any banking. The most extensive works were performed as a part of the expansion and modernization of the terminal building project which at this...

Based on the results of Airports Council International’s (ACI) Airport Service Quality (ASQ) program, Sheremetyevo International Airport received an award as Europe’s best in terms of passenger-service quality on May 27, 2014. The official Awards Ceremony was organized as part of the ACI EUROPE & ACI WORLD Annual Congress...

2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Menzies Macau Airport Services, a joint-venture company between Menzies, Air Macau, Eva Air, CNAC and local businesses. Menzies Macau started operation in 1994 with an exclusive license at the Macau International Airport, providing full ground handling support for all airline customers,...

Baltic Aviation Academy recently published their list of the spooky Top 10 Abandoned  Civil Airports. 1. Hellinikon Airport, Greece Once, Hellinikon lived the glorious days of being one of Greece’s flagship terminals and hub for international travel, however 63 years since it’s opening in 1938, it was abandoned. 2. Kai Tak, Hong...

Vilnius Internationl Airport informed that, effective as of 1st of July 2014, the following will occur: - SE Kaunas Airport and SE Palanga International Airport will be merged into SE Vilnius International Airport, with SE Vilnius International Airport as the surviving entity taking over rights, obligations and contracts of SE Kaunas Airport and...

Alicja de Costres – Sobolewska, Account Director, Poland and Baltics, Routes & Airport Cities, UBM Live; Grzegorz Michorek, Commercial Director, Kraków Airport; Marek Sowa, Marshall of the Małopolska Region; Gerard Brown, Head of Future Events, Routes & Airport Cities, UBM Live; Magdalena Sroka, Deputy Mayor of the City of Krakow for...

On June 20, 2014, a new partner of Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Nordavia Airline, launched air communication between the biggest air hub in Eastern Europe and the world’s biggest city beyond the Arctic Circle. Murmansk became the first flight program destination as part of cooperation between Moscow Domodedovo Airport and Nordavia. Flights to...

During first five months of the current year passenger traffic of the Kazan international airport has reached 671 201 people. It is 14.7 % more than on the same period of the previous year. 368 530 people have been carried on domestic flights in five months. It is 20,3% (+ 61 831 passengers) more than during the period since January till June...

On June 4, Sheremetyevo International Airport and Air Serbia held a joint event as part of a campaign devoted to the air carrier’s rebranding and the presentation of new services. The executives of Air Serbia held meetings with the representatives of ticketing agencies. The presentation took place at the conference hall of the Sheremetyevo...

Sheremetyevo International Airport is taking part in the 134th IATA Slot Conference which is being held in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, on June 10–12, 2014. More than one thousand representatives of the world’s leading airlines and airports have gathered to participate in the largest international forum on route development. The Sheremetyevo Airport...

Direct scheduled flights to Corfu island in Greece have started to be operated from Boryspil International Airport. Due to this fact, the route map has been expanded from the main air gateway of Ukraine and new opportunities for passengers vacation at the picturesque resort of the Ionian Sea have been provided. Kyiv-Corfu-Kyiv flights are...