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Airports and ground infrastructure (Page 2)

St Helena Airport (HLE): Is it worth it?

2020-09-16
By: Julian Smith
In: Airports and ground infrastructure, News

There’s nothing nice about being branded the ‘world’s most useless airport,’ and after four years of successful operations and barely a cancellation, Saint Helena Airport still struggles to shake the label. The world’s most useless airport? After 500 years of isolation, four years ago, Saint Helena finally got its veryRead More →

OR Tambo International Airport, Parking fiasco, or not?

2020-09-10
By: Patrick
In: Airports and ground infrastructure, News

Your parking ticket could cost more than your flight. If you plan on taking a trip that requires air travel, you might want to prepare yourself on the new and amended airport access, parking arrangements and health protocols as set out by ACSA at OR Tambo International Airport.  Return ticketsRead More →

Mum decides to “cool off” by going for a stroll along a plane’s wing.

2020-09-02
By: Dan
In: Airlines, Airports and ground infrastructure, News

What makes this story even more interesting is the fact that this happened after the Ukraine International Airlines B737 86N had already landed, and passengers were already disembarking. After landing at Kiev from the Turkish resort city Antalya, officials said the woman walked almost all the way from the backRead More →

Airline pilot reports ‘guy in jetpack’ while approaching LAX

2020-09-01
By: Julian Smith
In: Airports and ground infrastructure, News

Pilot reports seeing man with jetpack in flight path at LAX. “Tower American 1997, we just passed a guy in a jetpack.” This might be the wildest story ever… Reports of a mystery person in a jetpack flying high above Los Angeles, and what’s more, he was right in theRead More →

737 MAX certification flight in late June?

2020-07-02
By: Guy Leitch
In: Airlines, Airports and ground infrastructure, News

Boeing says it is aiming to conduct a key certification test flight on its grounded 737 MAX in late June, Reuters reports two insiders to the recertification programme as saying. Boeing did not comment on the certification flight timing, but said late Wednesday it had won approval from the FederalRead More →

LANSERIA AIRPORT – Thriving Through Tough Times

2020-03-06
By: Guy Leitch
In: Airports and ground infrastructure

Thanks to the steadily increasing demand for Lanseria from the scheduled airlines, Lanseria International Airport is still powering upwards on an ambitious growth trajectory. This despite the general aviation market being under much pressure. In contrast to the dysfunctional Wonderboom Airport, which has been run into the ground by theRead More →

THE EVOLUTION OF RAND AIRPORT & EKURHULENI: 4IR Driving the Transformation of Land-Usage

2020-03-06
By: Guy Leitch
In: Airports and ground infrastructure

“The rise of eCommerce is resulting in shifting patterns of land use. In particular, there is an increased demand for light distribution warehousing which Rand Airport’s new development is ideally suited to provide.” This shift in consumer and buying behaviour is driving the transformation of land-usage around the world andRead More →

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