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The stark realities faced by airport concessionaires looking to rebuild their businesses were reiterated Wednesday in a call-in forum hosted jointly by the Airport Restaurant & Retail Association (ARRA) and the Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC). In...

A new analysis from American ratings agency S&P Global Ratings predicts a long, slow “swoosh shape” recovery for aviation and airports, possibly stretching through 2023. “It will be a much more protracted recovery than the rebounds observed after the 9/11 terror...

Airports Council International (ACI) World this week released a comprehensive guide for airports as the recovery from the devastation of the global pandemic begins to gather steam. The publication, “Aviation Operations during COVID-19 – Business Restart and Recovery,”...

Airports Council International (ACI) World and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) this week called on carriers, airports and governments around the world to jointly develop a program to safely restart the aviation industry with an emphasis on...

The global consulting and technology services firm ICF International now projects that full commercial aviation recovery from the devastation of COVID-19 won’t begin until “beyond” 2021, adding some regions like Asia-Pacific will likely return to pre-crisis traffic...

A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official said Wednesday that airports that find concessionaires in default on leases, without attempting to work with those tenants to mitigate financial challenges using CARES Act money, are “on the wrong track.” In the weekly...

Tamara Vrooman will become the new president and chief executive officer of the Vancouver Airport Authority, operators of Vancouver International Airport (YVR), following an announcement by the authority board. Vrooman succeeds Craig Richmond, who retires at the end...

Editor’s Note: Angela Gittens has been through disruptions to the aviation industry before, both as the director at two large U.S. airports, as an industry consultant and, now, as director general of Airports Council International – World. She’s seen September 11,...

Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) this week extended the mask-wearing requirement at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to include all passengers as well as employees, as airports begin to prepare for what they hope is the return of normal passenger activity once...

Panelists brought a global perspective on the weekly “Survival and Revival” call, hosted jointly by the Airport Restaurant & Retail Association (ARRA) and the Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC), as airport industry concessionaires continue to battle the...