Airport

Germany?s Hamburg airport temporarily shut its terminal building this morning after a strike by security staff caused overcrowding.

The airport said police closed the doors for two hours after queues of up to five hours for security checks built up.

?Passengers have little chance of making their flights today,? a spokeswoman said, adding the building was re-opened.

The airports in Athens, Mykonos and Santorini are included in the list of European airports with the highest performance as far as a rise in passenger traffic is concerned.

TAV Information Technologies has won the communication technologies tender held for the Abu Dhabi Airport Midfield Terminal Building, which will be the world's largest terminal constructed under one roof when completed. TAV IT will undertake the IT infrastructure set-up and maintenance support services of the terminal, the company said by a written statement.

Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski ordered the increase of the level of security at transport centres such as airports, ports, bus and railway stations.

These new measures are also applicable to distribution centers handling postal shipments and parcels of Bulgarian Posts, electronic daily Dnevnik reports.

Air traffic is taking place under winter conditions on Bucharest airports, but some flights may record delays of some 30 minutes for take-off, due to defrosting the aircraft, and only in some cases the delays are longer than one hour, National Company Bucharest Airports (CNAB) informs on Tuesday.

Istanbul’s under-construction third airport should have been planned to be smaller, with room to be enlarged gradually, according to Hamdi Akın, the chairman of TAV Airports and Akfen Holding.

The European Court of Auditors concluded on Tuesday that millions of euros in European funding has been wasted on 20 regional airports in the bloc, three of which are located in Greece.

Greece is not without people who have faith in its prospects, who are willing to invest billions of euros in its future, as is the case with the port of Piraeus and the tender for the country’s regional airports. They obviously feel more confident about the country’s future than the majority of the Greek people do.

All three consortiums interested in the privatization of Greece’s regional airports have made it to the second stage of the tender, which concerns binding bids, state sell-off fund TAIPED decided on Monday.

Ruse will become the first Bulgarian city with a municipally-owned airport.

After three unsuccessful attempts to find a concessionaire, Bulgaria's Transport Ministry adopted a decision to transfer the airport to the Ruse Municipality.

The proposal was approved by the Ruse Municipal Council in a unanimous vote on Thursday.