From Thursday, 5 March, the newly constructed lighting system CAT II is officially put into operation. It will contribute to flight safety and reduce to minimum the flights diverted to other airports in low visibility conditions. “Certification of the aerodrome for CAT II compliant lighting system will improve the quality of the services...

In February, 260,715 passengers were served at Kraków Airport. It is a 10% increase compared to February 2014. It is also the best February result in the Airport's history. Since the beginning of the year, 522,695 passengers have been served (an 11% increase compared to the last year).   A growth in the number of passengers in the...

Baltic Ground Services, an international ground handling and aircraft fuelling provider, is further expanding its presence in the Polish market by signing a 7-year long cooperation agreement with Radom-Sadków Airport. According to the agreement, the company’s Polish subsidiary – Baltic Ground Services Poland – is appointed as the official...

Riga International Airport reminds its passengers that starting from 1 March new European Commission regulatory requirements came into force regarding the check of passengers’ carry-on baggage. The passengers should take into account the fact that more time will be spent at the security control of the European airports. At the request of the...

Aviation industry is exceptionally based on training: initial training, recurrent training, advanced training and many other. As a part of aviation world, Ground Handling is also heavily based on training due to the sensitive nature of the job. If there are so many requirements, it means there is a liable reason behind it and it should not be...

Warsaw Chopin Airport authorities have signed a deal with bank Pekao to finance further modernisations to the tune of PLN 600 million (EUR 145 million). The investments plan include the modernisation of the old terminal, an improvement in road access and the creation of a five-star hotel. Michał Kaczmarzyk, director of the airport,...

Sheremetyevo Airport came second in the global airports flight punctuality rating of 2014, providing for the on-time handling of 89.8% flights on arrival (among airports with departing passenger traffic of 10-20 mln people per year). The rating was performed by the competent international analytic branch agency OAG. TOP-5 Most Punctual...

Sheremetyevo Airport is participating in the NAIS&CA Forum. On February 10, Evgeny Tumel, Deputy General Director, Chief Engineer of Sheremetyevo Airport, delivered a report at the Forum. E. Tumel spoke in his report, entitled “Integrated solutions for infrastructure development of the big hub using JSC Sheremetyevo...

The number of ATMs completed by Boeing 747 (Jumbo Jets) at Budapest Airport continues to increase. Silk Way West Airlines of Azerbaijan now permanently uses jumbos for its twiceweekly Budapest flight. Since its arrival last March, Silk Way West has doubled its monthly operations between the Hungarian and Azerbaijani capitals, thereby contributing...

Sheremetyevo International Airport has recently announced the statistics of its operational activity in January 2015. The number of passengers served since the start of the year increased by 2.4% against the same period of 2014, reaching a total of 2,143,000 passengers. Passenger traffic from international airlines in January 2015...

On 3 Feb 2015 Saint-Petersburg Pulkovo Airport put into operation new building of Pulkovo-1 terminal after the reconstruction. It’s connected to the main centralized terminal building by transition gallery and designed to serve domestic passengers flights. The building was closed for the reconstruction on 28 Feb 2014. The amount of investment...

Having joined the IATA’s Ground Handling Council, Baltic Ground Services, an international provider of ground handling and fuelling services, is now a proud member of the global platform uniting over 300 aviation industry players seeking to promote positive changes in the ground handling market. In mid-January 2015 the international forum of...

The number of passengers at Lithuanian airports increased by 16.5% during the first month of this year, compared to the same calendar period last year. Kaunas Airport served as much as 29% more passengers, while Vilnius Airport and Palanga Airport had 15% and 0.2% more passengers, respectively.   “The beginning of this year is really...

Chopin Airport handled over 689,000 passengers in January. This is the 4th consecutive monthly record in the history of Chopin Airport. In the first month of this year 7.4% more passengers have been handled than in the same period last year and 2.14 per cent more comparing to January 2014. There is some value in taking into consideration that...

Boryspil International Airport State Enterprise is planning to invite a tender for the right to lease the real estate inside passenger Terminal D with the total square of 157,5 sq.m., aiming to arrange complex passenger handling. This estate will be used for arrangement of two cafes on the square of 60,0 m2, 5 points of passenger...