Airport

Bulgaria has extended for a second time the deadline to submit offers for the concession the government seeks to grant on Sofia Airport, the country's biggest airport.

Candidates can now send their offers before December 15, upon a decision approved on the last workday before the November 06 presidential elections, which was Friday, November 04.

BELGRADE - For four consecutive months, the Belgrade Airport has been breaking records in the number of passengers, registering 438,980 passengers in October, which is a 9 pct increase compared to the same period last year, the airport said in a statement.

A single offer was submitted in the tender for the construction and operation of a new airport for Iraklio at Kastelli on Crete. The consortium of local construction firm GEK Terna and Indian group GMR was the only one to table a bid for the project, despite expectations there would be more participants.

Fraport Greece will implement investments of 400 million euros at the 14 regional airports it has leased in the next four years, the company's executive director of commercial and business development, George Vilos, told a Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) conference earlier this week.

According to Eurostat data, “Elefterios Venizelos” International Airport in Athens has recorded the highest passenger transit increase in Europe for 2015. The figures show that 19.1% more travellers passed through “Eleftherios Venizelos” last year, compared to 2014, with Luton and Dublin terminals coming in second and third with a +17% and +14.1% rise, respectively.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed that, according to Greek media, all flights to and from airports in Greece will be cancelled on October 9, October 10, October 12 and October 13 due to 24-hour relay strikes of air traffic controllers.

Burgas Airport will be shut down form October 31 to December 30, reported the operator Fraport Twin Star Airport Management AD on its webpage.

European aviation safety authorities have set up a task force to urgently assess the dangers of collisions between drones and aircraft after a rise in near-misses with passenger planes.

Parliament will approve the concession contracts for the 14 regional airports to be operated and upgraded by the Fraport-led consortium just after Easter, and definitely before the completion of the bailout review.

Global airline passenger traffic grew 6.8 percent in 2015, with the Middle East region growing the fastest, preliminary data released on April 6 by the United Nations' civil aviation agency showed.