Airport Honour Awards 2025 launches with new categories!
Posted: 29 May 2025 | International Airport Review | No comments yet
International Airport Review launches the Airport Honour Awards 2025 with three new categories for airports to showcase their excellence.
The highly anticipated Airport Honour Awards hosted by International Airport Review is now open for submissions!
The 2025 Airport Honour Awards will celebrate innovation, creativity and excellence across ten categories, from the Sustainable Airport Award and Baggage Innovation Award, to the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award and Airport Security Award, recognising the breakthroughs making travel greener, smarter and more secure.
We’ll also spotlight the Accessible Airport Award and Airport Innovation Award, honour rising talent with the Airport Leader of the Future and Airport Leader of the Year awards, and cap it all off with the Passenger Experience Award and the most coveted prize of all – the Airport of the Year Award, for the airport who has scored highest across all practical categories (all categories not including Airport Leader of the Year and Airport Leader of the Future).
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Which awards can I enter?
- Sustainable Airport Award
- Baggage Innovation Award
- Airport Innovation Award
- Accessible Airport Award
- Passenger Experience Award
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award
- Airport Security Award
- Airport Leader of the Future
- Airport Leader of the Year
- Airport of the Year
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Which are the new categories?
New categories for 2025 include the Airport Leader of the Year Award and the Baggage Innovation Award, and the Airport of the Year Award.
The Airport Leader of the Year Award honours exceptional leaders who are steering their teams through the evolving landscape of air travel with vision, resilience, and innovation. It celebrates individuals who effectively navigate challenges, inspire excellence, and drive transformative progress within their organisations.
The Baggage Innovation Award recognises airports that have driven baggage transformation through leveraging technology, data and innovation.
Finally, the Airport of the Year is the most coveted prize of all. It celebrates the “all-rounder” airport that has achieved excellence in all areas of accessibility, baggage, security, EDI, passenger experience, innovation and sustainability. Therefore, the winner will be the airport who receives the highest score across the above categories,
Where will the awards take place?
The Airport Honour Awards will take place at International Airport Summit on 19 November 2025 at the J W Marriott Hotel in Berlin. Sign up to take part in the summit as well by registering here.
How do I enter?
Whether you are a supplier nominating your airport client for its innovative use of technology or an airport who has displayed an environmentally responsible approach to development, if your project was completed in the last year, we want to hear from you as to why you should be named among our first-class award winners.
When is the deadline?
The deadline for entering is 23:59 BST so please ensure you submit your entries by then!
Get your entries in now and remember, you can submit for more than one category!
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