Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus has been awarded a contract to provide ground handling services for IAG carriers at Dublin Airport. Under the agreement, IAG-owned carriers British Airways, Iberia Express and Vueling will have their aircraft served by Aer Lingus at DUB starting June this year. Th...

A new report claims that Ireland could have a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry with a €2.55b revenue by 2050. The study, produced by SkyNRG and SFS Ireland, in a partnership supported by Avolon, Boeing and ORIX Aviation, was launched today by the Irish minister for enterprise, trade and...

Dublin Airport has created an airport geographic information systems app to track its assets in real time. The app was designed using geographic information systems (GIS) technology from software partner Esri Ireland customised to track and monitor the large number of assets across Dublin Airport...

Irish gateway Cork Airport today opened a new Airport Control Centre (ACC) and purpose-built office suite following a further significant investment in the airport by operator daa. The two new facilities were officially opened this morning and include three operational departments, the airport po...

The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has selected Frequentis for country-wide voice communication system modernisation across Dublin, Cork, and Ballycasey airports. Frequentis is to replace existing IAA VCS systems and modernise IAA’s voice communication and control capabilities. Driven by the nee...

Dublin Airport’s North runway project performed official sod-turning this morning (February 14), with Leo Varadkar, Ireland's Prime Minister and Shane Ross, MP for transport tourism and sport in Ireland. The airport's €320 million runway project, funded through a combination of Dublin Airport ...

Shannon Airport welcomes proposed changes to the Ireland and United States Preclearance agreement, to enhance its US Preclearance service for airline customers and passengers, particularly business jet customers. The decision, announced by Simon Coveney—the Tánaiste and minister for foreign affa...

Dublin Airport operator daa has awarded the main construction contract for the new North Runway to a joint venture comprising Irish firm Roadbridge and Spanish infrastructure company FCC Construcción (FCC). The contract is for the design and construction of the new 3.1km North Runway at Dublin A...

Shannon Airport, a Shannon Group company, has received major recognition overnight from the European airline community after being chosen as this year’s winner of the Airport of the Year Award from the European Regions Airline Association (ERA). This is the airport’s third win, having secured...

Beating off its peers from Ireland, Denmark, UK and US, Cork Airport has won the World Routes 2018 Marketing Award in the ‘Under 4 Million Passengers’ category at the World Routes conference in Guangzhou, China. The airport’s winning submission was judged by a panel of global airline repres...