IR Pulse

by Kevin Rozario (London, United Kingdom) As the airport business looks for a path to recovery…

by Ioannis Settas (Athens, Greece) The long awaited restart of aviation and tourism is getting closer.…

by André Soutelino (São Paulo, Brazil) With the onset of the COVID19 pandemic last year, Brazil’s…

by Jody E. Aldcorn, Partner, & Abby Nann, Articling Student, McCarthy Tétrault (Vancouver, Canada) In the…

By Kevin Rozario (London, United Kingdom) Multiple national lockdowns in the U.K. and worldwide quarantines have…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) Last week, airportIR published an article predominately focusing on…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) Last week, airportIR published an article predominately focusing on…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) Last week, airportIR published an article predominately focusing on…

The World Association of PPP Units & Professionals and airportIR are pleased to announce the 11th…

By Ricardo J. Milani (Santa Cruz, Bolivia) The pandemic produced by the coronavirus continues to hit…

By Justin Lee (Singapore) It appears 2021 will continue to be a challenging year for airport…

By Dr. Patricia Ryan (Melbourne, United States) Our aviation world has always been dynamic however we…

By Kevin Rozario (London, United Kingdom) Norway’s airport operator Avinor issued tender documents in January for…

By Mo. Ashmawy (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) In 1958, the advertisement by American’s Independent Electric Light…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) While the end of 2020 was celebrated with a wish of…

By Jacques Follain (Paris, France) It is almost a year since the entire world has been…

By Curtis Grad (Vancouver, Canada) A year like no other, 2020 has doled out what has…

By Justin Lee (Singapore) The year 2020 has been a particularly disastrous for the world economy…

By Mo. Ashmawy (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) We live in strange times as I write this…

By Kevin Rozario (London, United Kingdom) A new report released by airport and travel retail trade…

By Anthony Cicuttini (Brisbane, Australia) The Australian aviation market is in a structurally fortunate position as a COVID19 recovery begins to take shape…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) Last week, airportIR published an article predominately focusing on…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) As 2020 draws to an end, the pandemic is grabbing another foothold…

By Kevin Rozario (London, United Kingdom) Travel retailer, Gebr Heinemann, and key Asian airport hub, Singapore…

By Ioannis Settas (Athens, Greece) Optimism has been a scarce perspective in Air Transport and Tourism…

By Andrew Walsh (Muscat, Oman) The impact of COVID19 can only accelerate these changes…

By Andrew Walsh (Muscat, Oman) It was only two years ago, October 2018 B.C. (before COVID) …

By Kimmo Ruotsalainen (Helsinki, Finland) COVID19 Financial impact to airlines according to IATA…

By Kimmo Ruotsalainen (Helsinki, Finland) As the aviation sector was seeing a slight change…

By André Soutelino (São Paulo, Brazil) Read Part 1 here. Despite the dramatic impacts of COVID19,…

By André Soutelino (São Paulo, Brazil) One of the most iconic Brazilian songs titled “Samba do…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) A Perfect Storm – with passenger growth year after year, the outlook was very rosy…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) Setting the Stage The busiest Canadian Airports remain under Government ownership…

By Curtis Grad (Vancouver, Canada) Long before COVID19 turned the global economy and aviation industry on…

By Curtis Grad (Vancouver, Canada) After a long pandemic-induced hiatus, on Aug. 20th the Barbados government…

By Kevin Rozario (London, United Kingdom) In the first part of this article, the Airport Restaurant and Retail…

By Kevin Rozario (London, United Kingdom) Retail and restaurant concessionaires across North America are suffering…

By Omoh Anna Ohiomoba (Vancouver, Canada) COVID-19 has altered life as we knew it! Indoors is…

By Paula Santos (Lisbon, Portugal) Unprecedented Opportunity…

By Paula Santos (Lisbon, Portugal) Unprecedented Opportunity…

By Paula Santos (Lisbon, Portugal) Uncertainty on passenger behavior…

By Paula Santos (Lisbon, Portugal) Unprecedented Crisis – First, let us present…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) All (good) things come to an end, and this 15th article in this series will be the final for now.

By John Eskaros (Frankfurt, Germany) This is Part 2 of 2. Part 1 was published on…

By John Eskaros (Frankfurt, Germany) Note to reader: The following article is based on a research…

By Adriana Boza (Vancouver, Canada) & Fernando Lopez-Calleja (London, United Kingdom) We established in the first…

By Adriana Boza (Vancouver, Canada) & Fernando Lopez-Calleja (London, United Kingdom) The ongoing COVID-19…

By Curtis Grad (Vancouver, Canada) Charles Dickens’ 19th century novel The Tale of Two Cities, set…

By César Tello (San José, Costa Rica) As we covered the fundamental challenges of COVID19 in the previous article, the next…

By César Tello (San José, Costa Rica) The world of airports has been facing one of its greatest challenge for several months…

By Jacques Follain (Paris, France) A large majority of countries, at different levels, have taken the…

By Dr. Patricia Ryan (Melbourne, United States) The impact on airports due to the COVID-19 crisis…

By Jacques Follain (Paris, France) Health Obligations May Last, but Change…

By Jacques Follain (Paris, France) The air travel industry is facing an incomparable…

By André Soutelino (São Paulo, Brazil) When crude jumped in 2006 most airlines were charging a…

By Anthony Cicuttini (Brisbane, Australia) The Australia and New Zealand aviation market certainly has provided its…

By Sidharath Kapur (Delhi, India) The world has been rocked and shaken by the impact of…

By Stephane Beaulieu (Tokyo, Japan) The global aviation sector has been one of the most severely…

By Ioannis Settas (Athens, Greece) In Air Transport, the devastating financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic…

By Kimmo Ruotsalainen (Helsinki, Finland) Who’s Online? Can You Hear Me? Mute Your Mic Please! As…

By Khair Mirza (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) February Traffic Performance was a Lead Indicator Countries in South-East…

By Jacques Follain (Paris, France) While nearly 50% of the world’s population is locked down, 180…

By Sidharath Kapur (Delhi, India) The Corona Virus pandemic is an unprecedented black swan event of the kind that has not been seen in our lifetimes…

By Arijandas Sliupas (Vilnius, Lithuania) Globally, there is hardly any airport left which is not affected by the virus…

By Anthony Cicuttini (Brisbane, Australia) Unprecedented. The travel advisories, restrictions and outright bans being imposed by governments around the globe…

By André Soutelino (São Paulo, Brazil) The COVID-19 crisis represents a “house cleaning” in aviation markets. With this pandemic…

By Mo. Ashmawy (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) Edward Lorenz, the professor at MIT, in 1950, described the chaos of his meteorological models as…

By Kimmo Ruotsalainen (Helsinki, Finland) As China is recovering from COVID-19…

By Nuno M. Brilha (Lisbon, Portugal) As a trillion-dollar company that makes the news daily, what…

By Kevin Rozario (London, United Kingdom) Novel Coronavirus – now officially named COVID-19 by the World Health…

By André Soutelino (São Paulo, Brazil) The coming year can be characterized as “steady as it…

By Curtis Grad (Vancouver, Canada) In early 2017, under the direction and authority…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) During the summer of 2019, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) launched…

By Khair Mirza (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)   Traffic Performance Groupe ADP (“ADP”) is an international airport…

By Khair Mirza (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Traffic Performance Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (“GAP”) is the largest…

By Frode Skulbru (Vancouver, Canada) The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has published the tender…

By Nuno M. Brilha (Lisbon, Portugal) The last 12 months have produced some bold headlines in…

By Ioannis Settas (Athens, Greece) The Athens International Airport privatization and development project (a greenfield BOOT)…

By André Soutelino (São Paulo, Brazil) Airport privatization is not a new phenomenon in Brazil. Since…

For several reasons attention is focused on Kenya presently, where Kenya Airways, in a ‘Privately Initiated…

The government of Barbados will offer out for concession, internationally, the already corporatised…

In Japan, where the concession process began in Dec-2015, the Osaka airports (Kansai and Itami, won…

With Vinci Airports’ transaction to take a 25-year management and operations contract on Belgrade Nikola Tesla…

The Brazilian concessions procedure is of course well established by now and the sixth tranche was…

In ASIA PACIFIC, the Macquarie Group is expected to sell its 50.1% stake in Australia’s Hobart…

In June 2018, the Kenyan cabinet approved Kenya Airways to operate Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport…

The London Gatwick Airport Partnership Too Tempting to Ignore VINCI’s recent move to acquire a 50.01%…

In mid-January 2019 Peru’s Ministry of Transport and Communications…

The Slovak government seeks for the second time a concession deal for Bratislava Ivanka Airport. It…

The privatisation of the three main Lithuanian airports seems to have stalled. Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga…

The Belgrade Airport concession in Serbia, which will be completed by the end of 2018 with…

All eyes were on the result of a public referendum instigated by the incoming Mexican President-elect…

The Montenegro government wishes to concession Tivat and Podgorica (the capital city) airports, the only two…