Airports

New developments at airports including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

Airports

Dallas-area Airport To Extend Runway

McKinney National Airport has received a major grant from the Texas DoT to increase the length of its lone runway.
Airports

Indiana Genav Airport To Begin Runway Expansion

Huntingburg Regional Airport, which is seeing more large cabin bizjets, will extend and widen its lone runway over the next two years.
Airports

Despite Tensions, Bizav Traffic To Hong Kong Unchanged

While business aviation traffic in China has been impacted by eocnomic storms, the Hong Kong Business Aviation Centre has remained sheltered.
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Airports

Vegas Hangar Complex Full Ahead of Opening

A new hangar complex at Nevada's Henderson Executive AIrport is 100 percent preleased in advance of its Spring 2020 debut.
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Airlines

Russia Touts Development of Its Air Transport System

The Russian government promises to continue subsidizing regional routes and renovate 66 airports.
Airports

FAA: SMO Can Use Airport Revenue on Runway Removal

The FAA found that SMO's use of airport funding to pulverize "excess" runway pavement is appropriate, but that it must have plan for future revenue use.
Airports

Airline Groups Blast Australian Airport Economic Report

Trade groups IATA and A4ANZ urge for greater regulatory regime change to stem airport monopolies.
Airports

Macquarie Infrastructure Buys UK's Farnborough Airport

Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), purchased privately owned and operated dedicated business aviation hub TAG Farnborough Airport in the UK.
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Accidents

UK To Allow Flight Resumption to Sharm El-Sheikh

The UK government banned operations to the Egyptian airport nearly four years ago on security concerns following downed Russian airliner.
Aircraft

Volocopter Unveils VoloPort eVTOL Base in Singapore

Volocopter and its partner Skyports have unveiled the first full-scale VoloPort concept in Singapore, where they hope to launch eVTOL air taxi flights.
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Airports

London Biggin Hill Sees Significant Scope for Growth

It is the closest airport to central London (apart from space-constrained London City), and certainly the closest business aviation airport.
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Airlines

Airlines and Airports Plan For Widespread Drone Disruption

Airlines worry that political protest groups could use deliberate drone incursions to cause widespread disruption at airports.
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Airports

Airports Rise to Technology Challenge Posed by Drone Threats

London and Paris airports have taken a lead in addressing drone disruption threats to operations.
FBOs

Air Culinaire Celebrates New Menu in NYC

The black-tie tasting event included Gama Aviation Signature as a sponsor.
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Airports

Chicago Executive Completes Runway Project

The airport's secondary Runway 12/30 had been out of comission since July.
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Airports

Macquarie Infrastructure Buys UK's Farnborough Airport

Investment fund Macquarie Infrastructure, which also owns Atlantic Aviation, is now the new owner.
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Airlines

China Southern Opens Daxing Airport with A380 Flight

Beijing's Daxing International starts services on schedule.
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Airports

TAG Farnborough Airport Wins Environmental Award

UK’s busiest purely business aviation airport has been recognized for its efforts to be Carbon neutral.
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Airports

CBAA Launches Letter Campaign for CYUL Access

CBAA wants operators who use Montreal Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport to write letters against a nightly GA airplane ban during runway work.
Airports

Omni Handling Prepares to Expand in Portugal and Spain

Slot congestion in Lisbon has led FBO group Omni to expand its handling services at other locations in Portugal and Spain.
Airports

DOT IG, FAA Spar Over Metroplex Documentation

Following an audit of the FAA’s metroplex redesign program, the DOT Inspector General found that the remaining five locations won't be completed until 2021
Airlines

Foreign Carriers Reluctant To Move to New Beijing Gateway

The decision to give airlines a choice of airports has led to complications for Chinese aviation authorities.
Airports

Daxing Airport To Come with Advanced New Technologies

When it opens this month, the new Beijing airport will introduce an innovative radar system developed by the Chinese engineers.
Airports

GA Slots Continue as Toronto Starts A-CDM Trial

Trials of the new airport collaborative decision-making (A-CDM) procedures started on Monday at Canada’s Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport.
Airports

Beijing's Daxing International Inches Closer to Launch

Boeing releases revised forecast on China’s aviation market ahead of Daxing’s opening.
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Airports

Next FAA Runway Safety Meeting Set for Hanscom Field

To help reduce wrong surface incidents, the FAA is sponsoring “special focus” meetings at various airports hosted by the agency’s runway safety action team
Airports

Bahamas relief flights highlight GA's humanitarian role

After Hurricane Dorian lingered over the Bahamas for days, private flights were among the vanguard of relief operations
Airlines

Indonesian Fires Force Flight Cancellations and Airport Delays

Airlines scrap more than 100 flights amid raging fires across the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan.
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Airports

Protests Fail to Halt India Airport Privatization

India’s government moves ahead with a plan to divest 13 airports.
Airlines

Report Alleges Monopoly Control of Heathrow Slots by IAG

A report commissioned by Virgin Atlantic argues that the expansion of London Heathrow Airport will increase competition with 350 extra daily slots.