Cathay Dragon, the regional airline of the Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Group, is now enjoying enhanced communications at Clark International Airport. This follows the installation of SITA AirportHub, the unique shared infrastructure which allows airlines to connect their applications and IT systems at an airport quickly and easily. Clark International Airport is supporting the growing demand of air traffic in the …

Global Net Solutions (GNS), an innovator in facilities-based smart security and business intelligence solutions, today unveiled its S-Badge, a revolutionary IoT-based security solution designed to improve safety and tackle insider threats and breaches in high security environments, such as airports, hospitals, school districts and college campuses, government agencies and more. The S-Badge solution is the world’s first security system leveraging …

Aeroflot has become the first airline in Russia to provide real-time location information for all the baggage it handles, choosing SITA, the global IT provider, to deliver an end-to-end baggage tracking solution using its BagJourney system. BagJourney allows Aeroflot to accurately track passengers’ bags at key points along their journey, including at check-in, loading onto the aircraft, transfer and arrival …

The Taoyuan International Airport Corporation (TIAC) has awarded Vanderlande a contract to supply a state-of-the-art baggage handling system (BHS) at its new terminal. In response to the rapid growth in passenger volume, TIAC is constructing Terminal 3 (T3) at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TTIA). This will boost capacity and enhance the overall quality of service. For this project, Vanderlande has …

Heathrow has reached a key milestone in its pledge to ‘Go Electric’ with the delivery of the 50th electric vehicle to the airport’s fleet. This is a key step in Heathrow’s promise to make all of its cars and small vans electric or plug-in hybrid by 2020 to help improve air quality around the airport. The 50 electric vehicles reduce …

Further enhancing aviation safety and efficiency in Brazil’s airspace, air navigation service provider, the Department of Airspace Control (DECEA), is working with SITAONAIR to expand ATS datalink services for main airports in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Following previous successful datalink installations, DECEA is expanding ATS datalink services for departure clearance (DCL) and digital ATIS (d-ATIS) for control towers …

MAG, the UK’s largest airport group and the owner of Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands Airports, has launched its own technology and e-commerce business to respond to technology-driven changes in the way passengers travel and to move the airport experience into a new digital era. ‘MAG-O’, which opened in new specially designed offices on site at Manchester Airport this …

Gatwick has today announced the appointment of Bechtel to deliver the airport’s largest single investment as part of its continued commitment to transform and grow sustainably. As part of its current five-year Capital Investment Programme, Gatwick will invest a total of £180 million to more than double the size of Pier 6 in the North Terminal. Once complete, the project …

NATS has warmly welcomed the decision by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) to award it the contract to develop a smart digital tower prototype for Changi Airport. The airport, with its 58 million passenger movements a year, will be the largest and most complex in the world to trial the technology with a view to understanding how it …

On 14 November, the Director General of ENRI Mr. Masahiro Kudo and the Director of the DLR Institute of Flight Guidance Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Kügler signed the 1st implementing agreement to start joint research activities in Air Traffic Management (ATM). ENRI (Japan) and DLR (Germany) are amongst the worlds leading research centers in ATM and Airport Operation. Both establishments are …