Stobart Group has received a £700m approach to buy a stake in Southend Airport - even as the crisis engulfing Britain's aviation industry deepens. AviAlliance, the German-based company which operates airports in Athens, Budapest and Puerto Rico, has tabled a proposal to acquire a 25pc stake in ...

The London Assembly, an elected body which scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London, has submitted a response to Heathrow Airport’s expansion consultation. Chair of the London Assembly Environment Committee, Caroline Russell AM, said the assembly had spent many years looking into the ...

London City Airport has published a draft master plan, laying out its 15-year strategy and emphasising sustainability as the central theme of its future development. The airport has said it will be carbon neutral by the end of this year and has also committed to achieve net zero carbon emissions...

Heathrow Airport said it is aiming to open a third runway in 2026 as it today opened a 12-week statutory consultation on the controversial expansion project. This is the latest milestone in delivering the runway that is set to cost £14 billion in the first phase of the privately-funded expansio...

Security guards employed by London Luton Airport are set to take strike action through most of June and July in a dispute over ‘heavy-handed’ changes to working time. The workers will begin their fourth period of strike action today (Wednesday 5 June) from 04:30h through to Tuesday 23 July a...

Improved operational procedures - including smoother descents that reduce drag and use less power - the phasing out of the noisiest aircraft and the introduction of new, quieter aircraft reduced the size of Gatwick’s noise footprint by seven per cent in 2018. Compared to the previous year , ac...

Hundreds of baggage handlers and check-in staff employed by GH London (formally Azzurra) at Heathrow Airport have secured a 9.1 per cent pay increase after workers overwhelmingly backed strike action in a dispute over low pay. In April this year over 300 workers at Heathrow’s Terminals 2 and 4 ov...

The Chairs of both Birmingham Airport and HS2 Ltd, as well as the CEO of Birmingham Airport, met to discuss their infrastructure plans and how they could work together in the region. Tim Clarke, Chair of Birmingham Airport and Allan Cook, Chair of HS2 Ltd, along with Nick Barton, CEO of Birming...

London Gatwick announced a change in its ownership today, as VINCI Airports finalised the purchase of a 50.01 per cent stake in the airport. The remaining 49.99 per cent will continue to be managed by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). The leading private airport operator in the world, VINCI ...

The High Court has today ruled against a challenge made by campaigners to controversial plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport. Judges gave their ruling on Wednesday following separate judicial reviews of the UK Government's decision to approve the plans, brought by a group of council...

Menzies Aviation has secured a number of ground handling contract wins and renewals at airports across its UK business. At London Heathrow Airport, EgyptAir, a long-standing customer of 18 years, has renewed its contract with Menzies World Cargo for a three-year term. Operating a daily Boeing...

Atkins - a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group - has won five major contracts to support Heathrow Airport’s sustainable expansion programme. The contracts will see Atkins – which is part of Heathrow Airport’s Integrated Design Team – provide design and advisory services as Heathrow prepares f...

Hundreds of baggage handlers and check-in staff employed by GH London (formally Azzurra) at Heathrow and London Luton airports are set to start strike action later in April in two separate disputes over pay, their union Unite said on Friday (12 April). Over 300 workers at Heathrow’s Terminals 2 a...

Gatwick Airport has invested nearly £1 million in new technology that dramatically improves the monitoring of aircraft flights and associated noise - with information updated every second - so that local residents can access data and generate reports on demand. In a UK-airport first, the new syste...

Gatwick Airport - the busiest single-runway airport in the world - is using aerial photography from Bluesky to plan long term development and growth. The high-resolution, map accurate imagery will feature highly in the airport’s soon to be published Master Plan. The plan, which explores options ...