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Inter airport Europe honours 25th Edition Innovation Award winners

inter airport Europe 2025 was delighted to honour the winners of its 25th edition Innovation Awards at a prestigious ceremony held in Munich’s Messe last night. The 25th edition Innovation Awards celebrate outstanding achievements, best practices, and pioneering technologies within the airport industry. They spotlight innovation, excellence, and transformative partnerships that drive the future of airport innovation. When choosing potential winners, inter airport Europe 2025 follows a strict selection process which starts with a public vote and concludes with a stringent review by the …

Lufthansa Technik and HENSOLDT take the “black box” to an all new level

Lufthansa Technik and HENSOLDT have jointly launched a new generation of onboard recording devices for the Airbus A320 family, which offer significant improvements over previous cockpit voice and flight data recorders (CVR/FDR). With the corresponding retrofit solution, airlines are not only well equipped for much stricter future regulations regarding recording times, but they can also read out the stored data without removing the respective devices. In addition, their maintenance operations benefit from significantly increased reliability and thus significantly extended replacement intervals.

First for the Netherlands: Alliance for first permanent drone test area over North Sea signed in Katwijk

At Unmanned Valley, the drone test center at the former naval airbase Valkenburg, the official cooperation between the province of South Holland, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and the Ministry of Defense was signed today. This marks an important step toward the realization of the first permanent test area for BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) flights in the Netherlands. This unique piece of airspace for drones will be over the North Sea. Somewhere off the coast of Katwijk and Wassenaar and should be operational in just over a year.

ADB SAFEGATE Advances Airside 4.0 Through AI Launch Reinforcing Leadership in Apron and Airside Digitalization

ADB SAFEGATE Advances Airside 4.0 Through AI Launch Reinforcing Leadership in Apron and Airside Digitalization - ADB SAFEGATE today announces a major advancement reinforcing its leadership in transforming and optimizing airside operations: the launch of AI: Airside Intelligence, an advanced platform purpose-built for airside operations. AI: Airside Intelligence introduces cutting-edge capabilities designed to enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability across airport environments.

Air traffic control: A human-machine partnership

Keeping flights safe might be the most exciting job in the world, but will robots be controlling our aeroplanes any day soon? Speaking ahead of International Day of the Air Traffic Controller, experts considered the role of people managing the flow of aircraft and the challenges they face, including working with emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. “Air traffic control is the best profession in the world. I am sure it will change but I can only recommend it,” said Helena Sjostrom, air traffic controller, International Federation of Air Traffic …

Record traffic and continued strong performance at EUROCONTROL MUAC over summer period

The EUROCONTROL Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) today reported that it safely handled 677,010 flights over the summer period from June to September; the highest volume of summer traffic managed by MUAC since the pandemic. Summer highlightsOn 04 July, MUAC achieved a new milestone handling 5,831 flights. This is a new daily traffic record and a 3% increase on the previous busiest day in 2018. The busiest month of the summer season was July with 173,977 flights. This is over 10,000 more flights than in June and more than 5,600 flights on average per day.

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