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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
If average monthly growth continues, AMS will handle close to 58 million passengers this year.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has introduced 35 electric buses to transport passengers from aircraft to gate. The buses, which are powered at solar-panelled charging stations, have been designed in collaboration with the airport specifically for use at Schiphol. Each bus has its own charging point at the airport, making Schiphol the biggest charging station for electric buses in Europe.
Heathrow Airport
Has grown by an average of 1.8% each month (January-July) in 2015.
Heathrow has been named as the preferred site for expansion in the south east of the UK. The Airports Commission published the long-awaited report choosing a third runway at Heathrow on 1 July, but only if it meets stringent conditions on air quality, noise pollution and carbon emissions.
Milan Airports
Between January and July, Milan’s three airports (BGY, LIN and MXP) handled over 22 million passengers.
Radio communications at Milan’s Linate and Malpensa airports have been upgraded. The system will connect both of Milan’s airports to provide rapid flight turnaround and more efficient terminal operations. Old radios used by personnel throughout the airports were also replaced with new TETRA digital handsets.
Faro Airport
Handled over 3.5 million passengers between January and July 2015.
Faro Airport is set to undergo an extensive renovation programme in October. The €32.8 million project will increase the size of the complex from 81,200sqm to 93,120sqm, allowing ANA to expand and update the terminal’s retail, security and operational facilities. Work is expected to be completed in March 2017.
Eilat Airport
Announced three new routes with Ryanair this winter.
Two new connections at Eilat Airport were announced in the past months. Ryanair will begin flying to Eilat in southern Israel in November – its first-ever Middle Eastern connection. The low-cost carrier will serve the city from three points in Eastern Europe: Budapest, Kaunas and Krakow. In addition, El Al, Israel’s flag carrier, added Boston to its American network.
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
Handled over 13 million passengers between January and July 2015.
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport has developed a weather simulator called the Climate Portal. Located in Terminal 5, it contains three rooms simply named ‘Hot’, ‘Cold’ and ‘Big’. They use heaters, air conditioners, fans, misters and audio-visual aides to provide holidaymakers with a taste of the weather they can experience abroad. The rooms are connected to online weather services whose data are transformed into a physical experience on the concourse.
Helsinki Airport
So far in 2015 (Jan-Aug) Helsinki Airport has handled nearly 83% of all passenger traffic in Finland.
Finland’s Helsinki Airport is planning a major expansion programme aimed at enhancing its facilities and services to help accommodate the future increase in passenger numbers. Starting in early 2016, Finavia will construct an additional south wing to the airport’s non-Schengen gable. A new west wing will be built later. The airport plans to initiate the extension of its existing Terminal 2 building, as a part of its €900 million development programme introduced in 2014. The terminal extension is likely to be completed by summer 2020.
Domodedovo Airport
Has been overtaken this year by SVO to become the biggest airport in Russia.
A new segment of the passenger terminal was opened at Moscow Domodedovo Airport in May, serving international passengers. The atrium is the largest object of the type in Russia’s transport industry. The area of the eastern part of the airport terminal was increased by more than 6,000sqm.
Avinor
Norway’s airports handled nearly 55 million passengers in 2014, so far in 2015 (Jan-Aug) 36 million passengers have been processed.
Norway’s Avinor has deployed a new air traffic management system to handle increasing en route traffic in the North Atlantic. The new system is scalable and tailor-made to handle air traffic services in oceanic areas and can now provide customers in the NAT region with new and improved services, compliant with NAT region requirements and EU Implementing Rules. It also allows a high level of automation in the communications between flight crews and air traffic controllers with datalink services.
Athens Airport
Average monthly growth in 2015 has been over 23%.
Aiming at providing accurate and instant information to the public, Athens International Airport is the first internationally to introduce a new e-application: ‘ATH Messenger’. By simply logging into Facebook Messenger through mobile, tablet, or laptop, all users can receive live flight information, using hashtags (#) and special key words (e.g. flight & code number). By sending a Facebook message and keyword to the inbox of the new page www.facebook.com/ATHmessenger, users will receive relevant information and updates on flights they are interested in.
