NEWS New York commits to Stewart expansion
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has demonstrated its commitment to Stewart International Airport by unveiling plans for a $2 million upgrade and a new package of incentives for airlines launching routes from the gateway. The airport’s terminal building is to be expanded and transformed in to a multi-functional
facility capable of processing international passengers. The authority’s new two-year air service development incentive programme is designed to
entice passenger airlines and charter tour operators to initiate non-stop service to new markets. “Our commitment to Stewart International Airport is unwavering,” says PANYNJ chairman,
Anthony Coscia. “Since taking on the operation of this facility in 2007, we have worked hard to create a vision of how this airport, with its convenient location and supportive community, can become a viable option for this region in the years to come.”
Lima project to be fast tracked?
Peru’s Transport and Communications Ministry (MTC) is to ask concessionaire Lima Airport Partners (LAP) to fast track its planned $300 million investment programme in capital Lima’s Jorge Chavez International Airport. The investment to expand the airport was originally
planned for 2013, but the government wants it brought forward due to faster than expected passenger growth, claims transport minister, Enrique Cornejo. Expropriation of land for a second runway at the
airport will be completed by year-end, which would allow LAP to go ahead with construction, says Cornejo, who notes that nine million passengers passed through the airport in 2009. The ministry has already asked LAP to begin
expanding the hangars at the north end of the airport to allow for more aircraft to be accommodated.
Game changing new terminal
St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has announced that the construction of the terminal at its new $240 million international airport, the country’s largest ever development project, will begin later this year. The 11,500sqm terminal at Argyle
Final piece of the jigsaw
Armenia’s government has announced that Yerevan–Zvartnots International Airport’s new $230 million terminal will be completed in October 2011 when the fi nal piece of the jigsaw, a 34,000sqm extension containing a new check-in area and public arrivals hall, opens for business. The extension means that passengers will no longer have to use the old Soviet style terminal for check-in before entering the impressive $72 million departures and arrivals concourse, which opened in May 2007. A new two-level, 1,000 vehicle capacity car park spread over 20,000sqm and covered by a ‘grass roof’ will also open in front of the new extension as part of the project. Loans from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank and the German Investment Corporation (DEG) are helping fund the airport’s transformation.
International Airport will be designed to handle about 1.4 million passengers per year, nearly four times the capacity of the current airport. “The new gateway will replace ET Joshua Airport in 2012 and be a game changer for St Vincent and the Grenadines, as it will fi nally allow us to attract direct fl ights from major North American and European cities,” says the Honourable Glen Beache, minister of tourism for St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport has launched subsidiary Aéroports de Lyon Management & Services to export its consulting, management, training, engineering and operations skills internationally.
Italy is set to become one of the fi rst countries in the world to abandon the use of full-body scanners after prolonged trials proved unsuccessful, according to Italian media reports. “We didn’t get good results from body scanners during testing, it takes a long time to examine a person, more than with a manual inspection,” says Vito Riggio, president of Enac, the Italian Civil Aviation Authority.
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Tampa International Airport has ended its search for a new CEO by naming Joseph Lopano as the successor to Louis Miller, who quit earlier this year and has since been appointed boss of Hartsfi eld-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Lopano, 55, will
leave his post as
executive vice president at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to take up the position.
Magal Security Systems has received an order to install security enhancing fi bre sensors on the perimeter
fences at Nanchang–Changbei and Zhengzhou–Xinzheng airports in China. AIRPORT WORLD/OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2010 Aerocivil, Colombia’s aviation authority, has
confi rmed that it hopes to award concessions to operate the gateways of Pereira (Risaralda department), Palestina (Caldas), Armenia (Quindio) and Cartago (Valle del Cauca) during the fi rst half of 2011. It claims that if there are no takers, the Colombian government will develop the airports.
Glasgow Airport in the UK has become the fi rst gateway to open a Tesco Express store. The store, which is located in the arrivals area, is open 24 hours a day year round. Nearly 500 people applied for the 27 jobs available in the shop.
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