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Issue 5 2011 / 5 October 2011 /
Mumbai is the financial capital and most popular city in India. Capital of the state of Maharashtra and home to 20 million people, diversity and vibrancy display the city’s true personality. With its diverse set of people, Mumbai is the home ground for many reputed enterprises and organisations.
Mumbai is an archipelago of seven islands. Its rich history can be experienced through its architecture and the relics of the past. This global city is ever-evolving and welcoming. Mumbai offers a wide choice of attractions for tourists that they should not miss whilst visiting the city. This city with its intrinsic charm delights every kind of tourist; whether a foodie, a shopaholic or a history enthusiast. One of the best ways to get connected with all this is via the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA).
CSIA is a befitting welcome to the iconic city of Mumbai. CSIA offers leisure and connectivity options to suit the needs of the modern day traveller. Equipped with the best facilities, CSIA sets the tone for seamless travel. With state-of-the-art technology, soothing lounges and shopping bargains, CSIA offers a pleasant travel experience for all. (more…)
Issue 5 2011 / 5 October 2011 /
John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport, which serves a catchment area with a population comparative to Greater London, is surrounded by a booming industrial growth area and along with its own regional natural attractions, is just an hour’s drive to one of the world’s most famous sites, Niagara Falls. Driving for an hour in the other direction will take you to the bustling downtown metropolis of Toronto. Toronto-Hamilton is also one of Canada’s principal cargo airports with an ever expanding number of freight businesses becoming tenants. For International Airport Review, Karen Medweth, Director of Air Service Development and Marketing reviews why Toronto–Hamilton International Airport is rapidly becoming known as the secondary hub for access to Toronto and Southern Ontario.
The airport holds a unique status as the only airport that is privately owned and operated in Canada. Hamilton International Airport Limited is part of the airport management company Vancouver Airport Services’ (YVRAS) diverse portfolio of 19 airports in seven countries around the globe. Others include Liverpool John Lennon Airport in the UK, Lynden Pindling in Nassau, Bahamas and Larnaka and Pafos Airports, Cyprus. (more…)
Issue 4 2011 / 8 August 2011 /
A hundred years ago, on the site that is today home to one of Europe’s most modern airports, there stood a single, two-door airship hangar. By the end of the 1920s, a modern terminal building was already making its mark on the city of Hamburg. Today, Hamburg Airport greets arriving tourists and business travellers with its futuristic glass and steel architecture, a unique advertisement for the city. In total, we have invested around €350 million in the expansion programme, an expansion programme that is the largest project of its kind ever to be seen at the airport.
Some of the milestones in the construction of the new Hamburg Airport were the completion of the two state-of-the-art passenger terminals and the airport plaza with a central security checkpoint, the extension of the passenger pier, the installation of a dynamic parking guidance system, the creation of additional parking spaces, the S-Bahn (metro rail network) connection to downtown Hamburg and the construction of the Radisson BLU Hotel Hamburg Airport, directly opposite the terminals. (more…)
Issue 1 2011 / 26 January 2011 /
Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2 was officially opened by the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, Brian Cowen on November 19, 2010, to broad acclaim. The new facility, the largest public building ever constructed in Ireland, represents the centrepiece of the Dublin Airport Authority’s (DAA) €1.2 billion investment programme at the airport over the past five years.
This programme incorporated more than 120 separate projects to a minimum value of €5 million and delivered new, expanded or upgraded facilities across the airfield, terminal buildings and landside campus. Amongst its larger projects were a new boarding gate facility, Pier D (2007); over 80 acres of aircraft parking zones, taxiways and contact stands (2008) and an extension to the existing passenger terminal (2009). (more…)
Issue 1 2011 / 26 January 2011 /
Warsaw, the largest city of Europe’s fastest developing aviation market, is aiming to complete the construction of a second auxiliary airport at a dis-used military base in nearby Modlin. The country is due to joint host the European Football Championships in 2012 and work has already began to make sure the project is completed in time for this event. (more…)
Issue 6 2010 / 13 December 2010 /
Oslo Airport (OSL) is Norway’s main airport located at Gardermoen in the municipality of Ullensaker, approximately 47 kilometres north of Oslo. The airport serviced 18.1 million passengers in 2009 and has been named Europe’s most punctual airport four times by the AEA (Association of European Airlines).
The airport has a strong environmental profile and focuses on public transport to and from the airport. A BAA survey in 2007 showed that Oslo Airport Gardermoen has the highest share of public transport in Europe, with a huge 60.1%. (more…)
Issue 6 2010 / 13 December 2010 /
Aéroports de Paris has a clear competitive edge on the airside, with two runway pairs at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and three runways at Paris-Orly. However, we had to face a persistent problem of airport-terminal capacity. To address this issue of terminal saturation, we invested nearly €3 billion, between 2006 and 2010, to build The Galerie Parisienne, the new 2E boarding lounge and the regional terminal 2G. In 2008 and 2009, Aéroports de Paris thus increased the capacity of its airport terminals by approximately 25 million passengers (i.e. the equivalent of Paris-Orly’s capacity). (more…)
Issue 5 2010 / 1 October 2010 /
Heathrow Airport is changing; every month around £70 million is being invested on a major programme of modernisation. All of the airport’s terminals will benefit and passengers are already experiencing the results.
This represents one of the largest and most exciting construction programmes currently underway in the UK; it is an ambitious undertaking that will strengthen efforts to position Heathrow as Europe’s hub airport of choice. Significantly, all of this work is taking place without any impact on the airport’s busy operation. (more…)
Issue 5 2010 / 1 October 2010 /
Two years into operation, the Bengaluru International Airport is already seeing close to 10 million passengers annually. Marcel Hungerbuehler, President of Bangalore International Airport Limited looks back at the year gone by…
At the Bengaluru International Airport, the watchword is change. The Airport constantly upgrades itself, always meeting and often exceeding world standards. The Bengaluru International Airport completed two years of successful operations on May 24, 2010. Achieving the dream of giving Bangalore an airport of world class standards which has proved its operational efficiency has not been easy. All this was made possible through the relentless commitment and enthusiasm of the thousands of people involved in making this project successful. (more…)
Issue 5 2010 / 1 October 2010 /
With double-digit increases, Munich Airport returns to the successful growth of recent years
When the global financial and economic crisis took hold in the summer of 2008, it was not long before the international aviation sector felt the effects. In the first half of 2008, Munich Airport posted a strong six percent increase in total passengers, four percent in airfreight and three percent in the number of take-offs and landings. During the next six months, the picture changed completely. In the second half of the year, growth in the number of passengers and the cargo tonnage turned into decreases. The same happened to the trend in total aircraft movements. In 2009 the air travel industry again had a difficult year. In Munich we experienced our first year-on-year decrease in total passengers following six consecutive years of growth. The five percent decline in the passenger figure at Munich Airport almost exactly matched the rate of shrinkage of the German economy as a whole in 2009. (more…)
Issue 4 2010 / 10 August 2010 /
Due to enter service in the third quarter of 2012, the new departures satellite at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport will join terminals 2E, 2F and 2G on the eastern side of the airport to complete the SkyTeam Hub.
“In today’s economic environment, it is more important than ever that we anticipate the future needs of our customers if we want to consolidate the market-leading status of Paris-Charles de Gaulle in Europe. This will mean making significant improvements to the quality of service we offer in order to achieve a step change in customer satisfaction, passenger satisfaction and airline satisfaction”, emphasises Pierre Graff. (more…)
Issue 4 2010 / 10 August 2010 /
Building an airport is a very complex process indeed. In order for such a large scale project to be successful, many different aspects must come together to achieve the same common goal. So what if there was a way to see these varying aspects in operation under one roof before you begin?
Based in Fürth, near Nuremburg, the Siemens Airport Center (SAC) is a truly unique facility designed to offer just that. The objective: to provide market specific solutions to both airports and airlines. (more…)
Issue 4 2010 / 9 August 2010 /
New Doha International Airport, currently under construction in Doha, State of Qatar, is one of a number of airport projects in development along the energy-rich Arabian Peninsula. Upon completion, the new airport will become an important centrepiece in the infrastructural development of Qatar’s capital city of Doha, with an aim for the airport to become a global transportation hub linking East and West.
The new airport will be managed by Qatar Airways, one of the fastest-growing airlines in the world. Since its re-launch in 1997, Qatar Airways has rapidly expanded, from operating four leased aircraft a little over 10 years ago, to now owning 84 modern Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The airline currently has over 200 new aircraft on order including; 80 Airbus A350s, 60 Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliners’, 32 Boeing 777s and five Airbus A380 ‘Superjumbos.’ (more…)
Issue 4 2010 / 9 August 2010 /
The recent global financial crisis led to many regions experiencing declining passenger traffic. The Middle East region, however, has weathered the storm well, with IATA indicating that it has been the only region to continue to witness passenger growth.
During this time Abu Dhabi International Airport has been a major player in driving regional growth, with continued increases in both passenger and cargo growth; a healthy 7.3% and 7.0% growth in passenger and cargo numbers respectively in 2009. Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), the operating company of all five airports in the Abu Dhabi Emirate, has seen this growth continue in the first half of 2010, with an increase of 11.7% in passenger traffic. (more…)
Issue 4 2010 / 9 August 2010 /
Dubai Airports owns and manages the operation and development of both of Dubai’s airports – Dubai International as well as the recently opened Dubai World Central – Al Maktoum International.
Dubai International (DXB)
Dubai International is the fastest growing airport for international passengers among the top 50 airports on Airports Council International’s list, with a growth rate of 9.2 per cent and 40.9 million passengers in 2009. Also the 4th busiest airport in the world in terms of international passenger traffic, Dubai International is connected to over 220 destina – tions across six continents through 130 scheduled airlines. (more…)
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