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Wizz Air Ukraine launched Wizz Air Ukraine launched operations on July 11 after taking delivery of its first Airbus A320. The airline’s inaugural flight departed Kiev’s Borispol Airport for the Crimean capital Simferopol shortly after 6am with a full load of 180 passengers. The airline will initially offer domestic flights between Kharkov, Kiev, Lviv, Simferopol and Zaporyzhzhia... 22-Jul-2008 Lufthansa’s Milan Expansion Lufthansa is expanding its route network from Milan and is to offer passengers a much wider choice of flights to European destinations. From the beginning of 2009, six new Embraer 195s will be based at Milan’s Malpensa Airport, flown by Lufthansa’s subsidiary Air Dolomiti on intra-European routes... 22-Jul-2008 Krasnoyarsk Airport Upgrade Lufthansa Cargo has entered into a strategic co-operation with Russian airline group AiRUnion and Krasnoyarsk Airport, a preliminary step to it utilising the Siberian airport as a stopover point for its services to and from Asia. The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) detailing the works that are required to bring the facility up to a standard that would permit the German carrier to transfer its regional hub from Kazakhstan. The main focus is the upgrade of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Category II standards. Lufthansa Cargo will complete a number of test flights to the airport during June and is confident that it will be able to use the airport regularly from the end of this year.... 22-Jul-2008 Brussels Low-Cost Terminal The Board of Directors of Brussels Airport has given the go-ahead to build a low-cost terminal to be completed in April 2009. The expansion will include re-opening part of the airport’s old passenger terminal. In addition there will be a modular pier that can be extended as traffic demand grows. Initially the pier will be able to handle six aircraft at a time, but could cope with 15 airliners at once with extensions. The no-frills facility will cater for direct LCC flights only, and not transfer traffic, thus simplifying baggage arrangements and eliminating the need for First or Business Class lounges... 22-Jul-2008 Bromma’s Future Safe Stockholm’s Municipal Council has confirmed that the city’s downtown airport at Bromma will remain open for at least the next 30 years. It has renewed the lease on the facility, safeguarding operations there for the next three decades. The existing lease agreement was due to expire in 2011 and it had been suggested that closing the airport was a serious option under study. The confirmation of an initial agreement between the city of Stockholm and the Swedish Airports and Air Navigation Service (LFV), signed last September, will now keep Bromma open until 2038. Politicians in Sweden remain split on the decision. One party is still campaigning for closure and for the land to be used for new housing... 22-Jul-2008 EBRD funds Albania Airport The Principal gateway into Albania is to be further modernized with €46 million ($72 million) in funds from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The money will help to build an extension to the new passenger terminal at Tirana’s Mother Teresa International Airport, as well as to provide additional airport buildings and investments in new equipment and systems. The expansion is expected to start this summer and finish next year... 22-Jul-2008 IoM Registry Success More than 50 aircraft were placed on the new Isle of Man (IoM) aircraft registry in its first year, significantly more than originally planned. The new system, using the M- prefix, was launched on May 1, 2007, with a conservative estimate of registering up to 12 corporate jets and helicopters in the first year. However, by the time it celebrated its first anniversary, 51 aircraft had taken-up M- markings.... 22-Jul-2008 Compact L-3 Automated EDS Receives European Union Standard 2 Approval L-3 Security & Detection Systems – a division of L-3 Communications – has announced that its VIS-HRTM high-resolution automated explosives detection system (EDS) has been approved by the Service Technique de l’Aviation Civile (STAC) for compliance with the European Union Commission Regulation (EC) No 1448/2006–Standard 2. STAC, the engineering department of France’s aviation regulatory agency, tests and approves the performance of systems and equipment contributing to aviation safety and security. Compliance with European Union (EU) Standard 2, which establishes image quality and detection performance standards for explosives detection systems used for screening hold baggage, is required of all EU members and of countries which follow EU aviation safety regulations.... 22-Jul-2008 New Airports International Site Launch We have been working hard to upgrade your online offering for the Airports International website... 13-May-2008
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