Southampton Airport has become the first UK airport to install solar powered LED runway safety lighting. The lights, nicknamed ‘Wig Wags’ due to their distinctive flashing patterns, are used at intersections between the runway and taxiways to safely guide aircraft and vehicles. The ......read more
Date Posted: 03/09/2010
Category: "Airports"
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Copenhagen Airport’s new low-cost facility, scheduled to open on 31st, October this year, has now officially been named “CPH Go”. Until now, the low-cost pier has been known as “CPH Swift”, a working title which has now been changed to CPH Go, which clearly signals what it is all about: more ......read more
Date Posted: 03/09/2010
Category: "Airports"
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An operational technique introduced at Birmingham Airport (UK) last year to reduce noise, emissions and aircraft fuel consumption has saved over 13,000 tonnes of CO2 in the last 12 months, enough to fill Wembley Stadium one and a half times. The technique, called Continuous Descent Approa......read more
Date Posted: 03/09/2010
Category: "Airports"
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Ricochet AS – a supplier of synchronised communication and surveillance recording within ATC, compliance and public safety sector – has signed a contract with the French Civil Aviation (SNA-RP) for installation of 8 recording systems in France.
The SNA-RP (Air Navigation Services Paris Ar......read more
Date Posted: 03/09/2010
Category: "Airports"
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Japan Airlines (JAL) will begin serving passengers at the newest international terminal of Tokyo International Airport when it officially opens on 21st, October 2010. In addition, JAL will also unveil its renewed facilities such as check-in counters and lounges at domestic passenger terminal ......read more
Date Posted: 03/09/2010
Category: "Airports"
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Rapiscan Systems, a leader in advanced security screening solutions, has announced that it has been awarded multiple Exploratory Research Program (ERP) contracts by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO).
By conducting transformationa......read more
Date Posted: 02/09/2010
Category: "Airports"
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Frankfurt Airport (FRA), the most important airfreight hub in Europe, is offering an additional 27 hectares of development land at CargoCity South. Fraport AG - the owner and manager of FRA - has issued a worldwide "Call for Expression of Interest" inviting the logistics industry to specify its l......read more
Date Posted: 01/09/2010
Category: "Airports"
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A new price agreement between Copenhagen Airport (CPH) and a number of airlines means that the passenger charge for using Copenhagen Airport’s new low-cost facility, CPH Swift, will be approximately 35 per cent lower than the current passenger charge. Copenhagen Airport will be the first ......read more
Date Posted: 01/09/2010
Category: "Airports"
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