Runway

• Onder voorstellen van de luchtvaarttoezichthouder zouden concurrerende bedrijven kunnen bieden op het ontwerp en de bouw van delen van de luchthavenuitbreiding • Heathrow kan gedwongen worden andere bedrijven toe te staan om de derde landingsbaan en een nieuwe terminal te ontwerpen en te bouwen, nadat de Britse luchtvaarttoezichthouder stelde dat concurrerende biedingen de bouwkosten kunnen verlagen. • Een langverwachte evaluatie door de Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) stelt wijzigingen voor in het reguleringsmodel dat bepaalt hoe Heathrow wordt beheerd en hoe de kosten worden gedekt. Lees verder...

Passengers were evacuated safely after the plane struck a person and an engine then caught on fireA Frontier Airlines plane hit a person on the runway of Denver’s international airport during takeoff, sparking an engine fire and forcing passengers to evacuate, authorities said.The plane, headed to Los Angeles, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff” at about 11.19pm on Friday, the Denver airport’s official X account wrote. Continue reading...

Airport seeks deal with BA owner, Virgin and billionaire local landowner, who has own expansion plan, over cost and service issuesHeathrow’s new chair has opened talks with airlines and the billionaire local landowner Surinder Arora to defuse a row that threatens to further delay the £49bn plan to build a third runway at Europe’s busiest airport.Philip Jansen, who was appointed at the start of the year, is understood to have held meetings with the airport’s carriers and with Arora, who has been promoting his own £25bn expansion scheme, in the hope of finding the middle ground in a row over cost and service issues. Continue reading...