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Brussels, Budapest and Billund airports win Routes Europe 2018 Marketing Awards

Brussels Airport was named the overall winner at this year’s Routes Europe Marketing Awards, with it also taking the over 20 million passengers category. In recognition of its extensive B2B marketing efforts, Budapest Airport was awarded the 4-20 million passengers category, while Billund Airport won in the under four million annual passengers category.

Airports in the news – Spring 2018

A snapshot of stories from around Europe.

Taking a fresh look at airport operations

Encouraging new ideas and fresh thinking is critical for innovation in aviation in order to respond to the growing demand for air travel and to the increasing number of air vehicles taking to the skies, including drones. That is why the SESAR Joint Undertaking supports exploratory research and has created an innovation pipeline in its research programme that transforms innovative ideas into solutions to increase the performance of air traffic management (ATM). This article provides a sample of just some of these innovative projects. By Florian Guillermet

Airports exploring new EU funding opportunities

There was strong participation by airport operators in the last Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Transport Call, launched on 6 October, which made €290 million available for co-funding, with a specific focus on accelerating the renewal and updating of European airports’ Air Traffic Control (ATC) infrastructure. What is so remarkable about this? Luc Laveyne reports.

Preparing for an invasion

The number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) commonly known as drones have seen a vast increase over the last 5 years and are expected to increase 10-fold globally from 2015 to almost 68m in 2021. As the pervasiveness of drones continues to gather pace they are being put to a variety of industrial uses in agriculture, transport, media & entertainment and other industries. But what are the implications for airports? Panos Spiliotis reports.