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Representatives of Ryanair and Warsaw-Modlin Airport announced yesterday that they had signed a cooperation agreement. The airline's passenger numbers at the sub-Warsaw airport are expected to increase from 1.5 million a year to 5 million in 2030. The carrier will invest USD 400 million at the airport, increasing its fleet of aircraft to eight.more

A man died at Bergamo airport in northern Italy yesterday, sucked in by the engine of a taxiing plane, Ansa reported. Orio al Serio airport was temporarily closed.more

Airport staff are earning cash bonuses for every easyJet passenger they spot travelling with an oversized bag, according to a leaked email.more

Budapest Airport resumed operations on Monday after a temporary halt when runways were closed as they were covered in debris due to a heavy storm, the airport's operator said in a statement on its Facebook page.more

Due to difficult weather conditions, particularly strong winds, persisting over Madeira, more than 30 planes were unable to take off from the Portuguese island yesterday, authorities said.more

This winter season, Ryanair will offer 12 routes from Warsaw Chopin Airport, including six new ones, the carrier announced. The winter schedule will come into effect on October 27.more

18 people were injured when passengers on a Ryanair flight were evacuated at Palma de Mallorca Airport. Earlier, a fire alarm went off on board the machine. The airport is operating without disruption.more

A strike by air traffic controllers in France will cause major disruption at many of the country's airports. Controllers are on strike today and tomorrow, ahead of the summer school holidays which start on Saturday.more

An airport just over an hour from London which has been out of action for a decade is set to make a comeback, with hopes that it will start offering budget flights to some of Europe's top holiday destinations.more

Issues at an electrical substation which caused a fire that resulted in Heathrow Airport closing were first detected seven years ago but not fixed, a report has found. The investigation found that National Grid, which owns the substation, had been aware of a fault since 2018. more

Europe is rebuilding air traffic very slowly after the pandemic. The Turks were the quickest to do so, having built a new airport in Istanbul for this purpose. Poland and Warsaw Chopin Airport are also doing very well, "Rzeczpospolita" reported, citing a report by Airports Council International.more

Thousands of European airline staff are being trained to stop people boarding flights to Britain without valid visas, in a move billed by the foreign secretary as a digital upgrade to border controls.more

A fresh study of flights to popular destinations from London show the routes most likely to be delayed this summer. In June. July and August if last year almost a quarter of the 4,008 flights to Antalya in Turkey were delayed by more than one hour.more

The Catalan government and Spanish airport operator AENA have approved a €3.2 billion expansion of El Prat Airport, Barcelona's main airport, a move opposed by environmentalists and opponents of mass tourism.more

London’s third airport Stansted has submitted a planning application to allow it to increase the number of passengers it handles from 43 million to 51 million over the next 20 years.more

Krakow Airport handled nearly 1.157 million passengers in May, a 15 per cent increase on the same month last year, the airport's president, Łukasz Strutyński, announced on Monday.more

Plans to fast-track the remodelling of the UK's flight paths could lead to quicker flights and fewer delays for passengers, the government says. Ministers are set to announce the creation of the UK Airspace Design Service (UKADS) later which will re-design the routes planes must take over UK airspace - many of which were decided around 70 years ago.more

Travelers using the airport in Osaka, Japan, can rest assured about their luggage. Although tens of millions of passengers pass through it every year, not a single piece of luggage has been lost there for over 30 years due to the fault of the airport operator, employees of Kansai International Airport boast. It's all thanks to the baggage sorting system.more

New border control systems introduced at Portuguese airports and seaports since Monday have led to chaos and long queues at passenger check-in. Yesterday, the most difficult situation was at Lisbon airport.more

The Tanzanian government announced on Friday that it had just allocated 3 billion shillings, or more than US$1 million, to begin construction of an international airport in Africa's most famous nature reserve, Serengeti National Park.more

Hundreds of homeless people and bedbugs in one of the terminals at Madrid's Barajas airport could damage Spain's image among tourists, regional authorities and Spanish media are warning.more

In April this year, Lublin Airport served 36,949 passengers, which is almost 25 percent more compared to April last year. In the whole of 2024, 426,000 people used the airport's services.more

A number of flights have been delayed as a result of the IT problems faced this morning at London Stansted Airport, the British capital's third largest airport by passenger numbersmore

The root cause of a fire which led to the shutdown of Heathrow Airport and affected hundreds of thousands of journeys worldwide "remains unknown", an interim report says. Heathrow was closed to all flights for much of 21 March after a fire at a nearby electrical substation, which started the previous night, caused a power outage at the airport.more

A passport point was opened at Wrocław Airport on Monday, where travellers can obtain a temporary document on the spot. Wrocław Airport is the fifth airport in the country - after Warsaw, Katowice, Kraków and Gdańsk - where such points operate.more