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Bristol Airport
Broke through the six million mark last year, growing by 3.6%.
Bristol is the first major UK airport to introduce the new Performance Based Navigation Standard Terminal Arrival Route (STAR) which uses satellite navigation, coupled with the latest technology fitted to aircraft, to replace traditional ground beacons and landing systems. The new routes apply to aircraft approaching from the south and have been designed to closely replicate existing tracks but with greater precision than was previously possible. Approaches from the west have also been designed to take aircraft over the Severn Estuary, reducing noise disturbance to communities along the coastline. The new STAR system allows aircraft to follow optimum flight paths with greater accuracy and to stay higher for longer making them quieter and more fuel efficient.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Set to become easyJet’s 26th base starting next summer.
Since October 2014, passengers at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol can opt for electrically powered taxis operated by BBF Schipholtaxi or BIOS-groep.
The two companies will jointly offer passenger transport services with a fleet of 167 Tesla Model S taxis. Schiphol is the only airport in the world to offer a comparable service: no other airport has a fleet of sustainable taxis this size. The electrically powered taxis provide a significant boost to sustainable mobility at the airport.
Schiphol is already certified carbon neutral by Airport Carbon Accreditation. The zero-emission taxis will be serving Schiphol for a period of at least four years, with an optional extension of up to eight years.
Aena
Recorded 187 million passengers last year.
Spain will sell a 21 percent stake in its state-owned airports operator Aena to Corporacion Financiera Alba, Ferrovial and British investment fund TCI. Corporacion Financiera Alba will take an 8% stake while Ferrovial and TCI will each take a 6.5% stake. As core shareholders, each of them will hold one seat on the 15-member board. In addition, Spain plans a public share offering for another 28% in Aena, meaning eventually a 49% stake will end up in private hands valuing the operator at up to €5 billion ($6.33 billion).
Hamburg Airport
Handling over 13 million passengers in 2013, Germany’s 5th busiest gateway.
Hamburg Airport now offers a new service to passengers, launched in September 2014. Passengers can now print their boarding passes and drop off their baggage with ease at modern check-in and baggage drop kiosks, saving a lot of time. All that is needed to drop baggage is to scan the boarding pass. The new facilities have been installed in Terminal 1 and can currently be used by passengers for Lufthansa and easyJet. Other airlines will be included over time. The principle of check-in and baggage drop kiosks being part of the airport infrastructure and available for the use of passengers of various airlines is a world first. In parallel to the kiosks, passengers can still check in and drop their baggage at the counter.
Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport
Expecting to pass nine million passengers in 2014.
As of the first quarter of 2015, Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport, in partnership with Google, will offer a virtual tour of the airport (the first ever virtual airport tour in France) using Google Street View. It will allow passengers to become more familiar with the airport as they will be able to anticipate their arrival and their journey through the airport. Another innovation that is also set to be implemented in the first quarter of next year will allow passengers the possibility of tracking all their way from their home to the boarding gate using Google Maps Indoor. Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport has also partnered with Google to develop its project Google Glass. The airport has started to design applications to meet passengers’ needs and facilitate their journey through the airport. The airport has also created an online community on Google+ to share its innovations with passengers.
Liege Airport
Received a new cargo operator in June, ANA Aviation.
Liege Airport and Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport have signed a Friendship Agreement in order to encourage cooperation and strengthen the exchanges between the two airports. The goal is a possible cooperation in business development; an evaluation of on-going and potential synergies that are beneficial to cooperation and an overall improvement of the business of both airports. Liege Airport is Belgium’s biggest air freight hub and Europe’s 8th largest cargo airport and Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport (ISG) serves as an important air hub in a strategic geographical location.
Sheremetyevo Airport
Celebrated its 55th anniversary this August.
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport confirmed the compliance of its Integrated Management System with the requirements of the ISO 9001:2008, 14001:2004, and OHSAS 18001:2007 international standards. During a compliance audit conducted by the “Russian Register” Certification Association, Sheremetyevo Airport received praise for the activities the airport has undertaken to improve levels of service and quality, for ensuring the occupational safety and health of the company’s personnel, and for managing its environmental footprint.
Zürich Airport
Has grown by 40% in a decade with 24.9 million passengers last year.
Zürich International Airport will analyse the reduction behind medium-sized aircraft in low-visibility operations with the help of Airbus ProSky as it aims to improve its efficiency during adverse weather conditions. With Airbus ProSky, Zürich Airport will be able to model its environment with a high level of accuracy and the geometry of disturbances on the ILS signal in 3D. The study is aimed at making state-of-the-art simulations and comparing them with the ICAO standard tolerances which will help in improving capacity in low visibility conditions and match future GBAS CAT III standards, outsmarting the current standards.
Milan Malpensa Airport
3.2% traffic growth in the first nine months of 2014.
After a year of trials, SEA, Milan Malpensa and Milan Linate airports’ operator, and ENAV, Italy’s Air Navigation Service Provider, have completed the integration of systems for the use of the A-CDM procedures. Milan Malpensa Airport has joined the other 13 European airports that are already connected to the network: Munich, Brussels, Paris CDG, Frankfurt, Helsinki, London Heathrow, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Oslo, Rome Fiumicino, Berlin Schoenefeld, Madrid and Stuttgart. A-CDM (Airport Collaborative Decision Making) is an integrated platform that has been heavily promoted by ACI EUROPE and EUROCONTROL. It shares real-time information with EUROCONTROL’s Network Management Operations Centre, which will then sort and send on to the other connected airports, thus significantly optimising overall operations.
Zagreb Airport
New carriers this year include eurolot from Warsaw and KLM from Amsterdam.
Work on Zagreb Airport’s new multi-million euro terminal is advancing with construction said to be two months ahead of schedule. The new terminal, which will eventually have the capacity to handle 5 million passengers per year and feature 8 air bridges, will open its doors to the public in December 2016. The project involves a total investment of €331 million, €243 million of which is for the design and construction of the new terminal and €88 million for the maintenance of airport infrastructure over the entire period of the 30-year concession, awarded to the French-led Zagreb Airport International Company (ZAIC).
