Updated ICAO recovery guidance welcomed by ACI World and IATA
ICAO's updated guidelines are being welcomed by both associations as a way to support a harmonised and consistent global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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ICAO's updated guidelines are being welcomed by both associations as a way to support a harmonised and consistent global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Six new COVID-19 recommendations and amendments to two others have been approved by the ICAO Council, building upon its original 'Take-off' guidelines, which were published in June 2020 in response to the pandemic.
In the most recent instalment of International Airport Review’s exclusive series, Marius Gelžinis, CEO of Lithuanian Airports, is optimistic of the sector’s recovery post-COVID-19 as he evaluates the balance of passengers’ needs and desire to travel, while keeping safety as the highest priority.
Gary Cutts, Challenge Director of the UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Future Flight Challenge, spoke to International Airport Review’s Junior Editor, Leah Hockley, about the purpose of the challenge and how it is working to encourage innovation within the industry, as well as the importance of the development of future…
The survey found that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, airports have significantly accelerated their investments in technology in order to adapt better to the changing health and safety requirements.
Among the results, IATA found that 57 per cent of respondents expect to be travelling within two months of the pandemic being contained, which is much improved from 49 per cent in September 2020.
On 8 February 2021, Berlin Brandenburg Airport achieved a significant milestone - 100 days of operation. Jan-Peter Haack, spokesperson for BER Airport, discusses the airport’s first few months of operation and the challenges of opening a brand new airport in the middle of a pandemic.
Phoenix's Sky Harbor, Deer Valley and Goodyear Airports have all been awarded with the accreditation, which is an outbreak prevention, response and recovery accreditation for facilities.
Luxaviation, in cooperation with Eurofins, ensures regular aircraft sanitisation with special aviation-grade cleaning and disinfection products.
EASA's new guidance addresses unauthorised drone usage in the vicinity of airports, including by accident, with deliberate intent to disrupt, and criminal or terrorist motivation.
The call centre detects positive COVID-19 shedder before an employee tests positive using Eurofins coronavirus surface monitoring.
The new runway safety training course has been designed specifically for air traffic controllers and aeronautical information service staff and will help to deliver substantial runway safety performance improvements.
A total of 1,000 COVID Safety Alert devices have been given to frontline Toronto Pearson employees to help to reinforce physical distancing.
The taskforce will develop a plan for a new risk-based framework to facilitate international travel no sooner than 17 May 2021, in line with the UK government's plans to ease the national restrictions that are currently in place across England.
The first of its kind in the UK, the new airfield radar system will monitor Teesside Airport’s 215 cubic miles of airspace and be future-proofed for decades to come.