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PPS Publications has heavily invested in HR and technology in the last two years to create a significant in-house capability in electronic publications covering full self-sufficiency in web development, graphic design, creative writing, and on-line media sales. Our stable not only includes on-line versions of your favourite print titles but entirely new built-for-web products led by our flagship weekly e-journal anna.aero (Airline Network News and Analysis) and TheRouteShop.com - the online store where airports market their vacant services to airlines. These are not experiments but rapidly developing core businesses.

anna.aero (Airline Network News and Analysis) is a weekly e-journal and website entirely devoted to global airline/airport network planning issues. It is edited by Ralph Anker, a former academic at the University of Cranfield, and senior network planner with easyJet, Go and Maersk. Supported by great advertisers such as Copenhagen Airports, Hamburg, Orlando, Montreal, Bahrain etc etc, subscriptions to anna.aero, and access to the site's amazing analysis and research, is completely free-of-charge and requires no bothersome logins or passwords. In the spring of 2009 anna.aero was enjoying 30,000 monthly visits.

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TheRouteShop.com is the mercantile portal hosted on anna.aero. Here airports can list their vacant air services taking advantage of its 30,000 monthly visitors. The service enjoys marketing partnerships with ACI EUROPE and ACI North America for whom it is the official media partner of ACI-NA's JumpStart - the premier North American Air service Event - Montreal June 3 2009. In the spring of 2009 TheRouteShop.com had 60 participating airports.

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ACI EUROPE Airport Business is widely renowned as the leading industry magazine for airports globally. We are pleased to announce that for the first time this content can now be found online immediately after publication of each new edition. Content will be uploaded and categorised under specific sections to deliver for ease of use and enhanced searchability for our readers. The special editions we produce focusing on how airports have approached major expansions will also be placed online.

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ACI EUROPE Airport Business

The Check-In website is an extension to the existing and hugely successful Check-In events. Technologies and processes in this field are in the middle of a revolution and this website contains all the in-depth articles from the Check-In magazine, a comprehensive list of industry suppliers as well as the very latest information on the Check-In 09.

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Renewed call for competitive crisis relief

Fresh data for the third quarter of 2009 released by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, have confirmed expectations. With eurozone countries reporting a +0.4% growth compared with the previous three months, European recession is officially over. Although this is certainly good news for aviation, it cannot be taken for more than what it is: brighter [...]
02 December 2009
Low-cost terminal the growth engine for Marseille-Provence

The airport of Marseille-Provence, France’s third busiest airport outside Paris, is a notable success story amidst the current economic climate. While accumulated passenger traffic across Europe declined by -7.7% for the first nine months of the year, Marseille-Provence airport saw a +3.9% increase to almost five million passengers. The development of mp2, the airport’s low-cost [...]
02 December 2009
Progressive AdR-SEA collaboration to boost economic growth

Two Italian airport operators, SEA Aeroporti di Milano and Aeroporti di Roma, share common strategy objectives, so collaboration was perhaps inevitable. The first step in their collaboration was the organisation of an event in Rome on 14 October, at which they presented their industrial and capital expenditure plans to the Italian Government. The overriding objective [...]
02 December 2009
Europe’s airports key engines to restore economic growth

The ACI EUROPE Small and Medium Size Airports Action Group (SMAG) held a regional airports workshop on 6 October as part of the ‘OPEN DAYS: European Week of Regions and Cities’ jointly organised by the EU Committee of the Regions and the European Commission Directorate-General for Regional Policy. The Open Days are the EU’s biggest [...]
02 December 2009
EASA preparing aerodrome safety certification rules

Starting with this issue of Airport Business, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will regularly inform readers about its new responsibilities in aerodrome safety. This first issue highlights the main elements of the Agency’s approach. What is going to happen? From autumn this year, EASA is preparing the rules for the safety certification of aerodromes and their [...]
02 December 2009
ACI WORLD calls for harmonised, global approach

Airports Council International (ACI) counts around 600 members operating close to 1,700 airports worldwide and handling 96% of the world’s passenger traffic. Through the five ACI geographical regions – ACI EUROPE, ACI Africa, ACI Asia-Pacific, ACI-Latin America & Caribbean, ACI-NA (North America) – and ACI WORLD coordinating the global perspective, a strong, united voice safeguards [...]
02 December 2009
Hermes Airports consortium delivers two ‘world class’ airports in four years

Three years ago, the Hermes Airports consortium took over operation of Cyprus’ two airports: Larnaka and Pafos. Last November the doors to Pafos’ new terminal were opened; an investment of €125 million and one year on, Cyprus is welcoming the completion of Larnaka’s new terminal. The 25-year Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) concession agreement awarded by the Cypriot government [...]
02 December 2009
CUPPS to realise cost and time savings

CUPPS (Common Use Passenger Processing System) is a true collaborative industry effort, bringing together airports, airlines and vendors. Replacing the existing CUTE standard, for airlines it means a single application can be used for all CUPPS sites, regardless of platform provider; for airports CUPPS makes it easier to adopt common use by updating the old [...]
02 December 2009

Latest Airline Network planning news from anna.aero

Asia, Europe and North America’s top routes experience different levels of competition; Asia most competitive

How much competition is there on some of the world’s busiest routes? Which European route is still the busiest despite a 40% drop in traffic? And just how many carriers are there on India’s busiest domestic route? Analysis of the busiest airport-pairs (as opposed to city-pairs which involves a judgement as to which airports serve the same city or metropolitan area) in Europe, Asia and North America reveals different levels of competition in each region. Europe, where many cities are served by multiple airports and where the market is truly liberalised sees a lot of indirect competition where low-cost carriers typically take [...]
09 March 2010
Korean international traffic still growing; domestic impacted by KTX high-speed rail; Delta resumes Detroit in June

Which are Korea’s busiest airports and how have they developed in recent years? Who has what share of the domestic market and which are by far the two leading country markets? What’s unusual about the routes to the US? It is now 22 years since South Korea (officially known as the Republic of Korea) hosted the summer Olympics in Seoul and eight years since its joint hosting of the FIFA World Cup with Japan. Since then international air travel in the country has continued to grow though in recent years the successful development of a national high-speed rail system known as [...]
09 March 2010
SunExpress: Booming Lufthansa/Turkish JV grew 32% in 2009! Will it grow by frequency or routes in 2010?

A rapidly growing carrier based in Turkey? Is it Turkish Airlines? Is it Pegasus? No it’s SunExpress. And the carrier plans to grow a further 25% this year. Which are its biggest Turkish bases? As regular readers of anna.aero will know, Turkey has been one of the most dynamic countries for air travel in the last couple of years. Turkish Airlines was the fastest-growing AEA member airline last year (passenger numbers were up 12.3%, capacity as measured by ASKs was up 24.3%) and Turkey’s airports handled 85.2 million passengers, an increase of 7.3% on 2008. One airline contributing to this impressive [...]
09 March 2010
American adding 10 new routes at Chicago O’Hare and resuming several more; steps up competition with United

American has cut capacity by 13% in the last two years at its second busiest base but it has expansion plans for this summer. What impact will this have on United, and which routes are returning to the network after an absence? Chicago O’Hare is a major base for two US carriers, American Airlines and United. American currently operates almost 2,900 weekly departures to 108 destinations making it the airline’s second biggest base after Dallas/Fort Worth (though it offers slightly more seats from its Miami base). United by comparison has over 4,000 weekly departures from the airport to 150 destinations. Between them [...]
09 March 2010
Cologne Bonn doubled traffic in five years; LCCs dominate with 85% of capacity; long haul potential untapped

What difficulties was Cologne Bonn Airport faced with a decade ago and which airlines came to the rescue? Which airline has surrendered the majority of its routes to which other airline? Which airlines are now leading at the airport? And why is there potential for services to China? Cologne (Köln) Bonn Airport is known as one of the main cargo airports in Europe, being a base for both UPS and FedEx, but its passenger operations perfectly illustrate the impact low-cost traffic has had in the European market. At the beginning of the last decade, the airport was faced with issues such as [...]
09 March 2010
African air travel dominated by South Africa and Egypt, their national carriers, and their biggest airports

We take a look at the leading air travel country markets, airlines and airports and see how they compare with one year ago. Which is the fastest-growing airline and how many airports are there with scheduled services? With the recent end of the winter Olympics in Vanocuver, the world’s sporting spotlight will gradually shift towards Africa and the FIFA World Cup which takes place in South Africa during June and July. Airlines have already announced a number of capacity and/or frequency increases to cater for the movement of spectators, fans and the media to and from events. Analysis of current schedule data [...]
09 March 2010
UK-to-US traffic down 10% in 2009; Heathrow’s share of market jumps from 60% to 75% in two years

After significant changes in 2008 thanks to the ‘opening up’ of Heathrow, 2009 saw few changes in routes but a significant drop in traffic. What’s happened to non-Heathrow traffic and which carrier has cut capacity least for 2010. After the excitement of 2008, when routes between London Heathrow and the US were finally fully liberalised, allowing several US carriers to switch their flights from London Gatwick (assuming they could obtain the necessary slots), last year saw a consolidation on US routes from the UK and a fall in passenger numbers of 10% to 16.3 million. This was the lowest level since [...]
09 March 2010
British Airways extracts £200pp premium from families for ’summer holiday’ flights between London and Washington

Complementing our transatlantic market trend analysis this week’s farewatch looks at lowest fares every day for the next eight months on the London Heathrow – Washington Dulles route. What is causing the fare ‘spikes’ in each direction? According to the 2009 CAA Survey of UK airports around 30% of passengers travelling to and from the US from London Heathrow are on business while the rest are either visiting friends and relatives or travelling for leisure purposes. During the summer season, when the schools take a break and families can travel together for extended periods, the share of non-business travellers is likely [...]
09 March 2010

Latest passenger check in technology news from Check-In.aero

Check-In ‘09 Heralded as a Great Success

Over 250 delegates from all over the world attended Check-In ‘09 to learn about the latest advances in passenger and baggage processing. Delivered in collaboration with McCarran International Airport and IATA, the conference focused on “Enhancing the passenger experience: From front door to plane door” and saw innovative presentations from many leading organisations including ANA Japan, [...]
29 September 2009
First CUPPS compliance certification achieved

The first CUPPS (Common Use Passenger Processing System) certification has been achieved. In August, SITA became the first platform provider to achieve compliance certification and to successfully complete its CUPPS Pilot Program. Ross Falconer reports. CUPPS is a true collaborative industry effort, bringing together airports, airlines and vendors to ensure that all stakeholder needs are considered. [...]
28 September 2009
Enhancing security, improving customer service

The CATSA (Canadian Air Transport Security Authority) Boarding Pass Security System (BPSS) trial was initiated as a partnership with Aéroports de Montréal, in which both organizations contributed requirements, resources and oversight. Peter Burden, General Manager, Screening Operations Projects, CATSA, outlined details of the project to Ross Falconer. The BPSS concept was initially developed in response to [...]
28 September 2009
Kuala Lumpur’s StB vision

Malaysia Airports will host the inaugural Check-in Asia conference and exhibition at the Pan Pacific, Kuala Lumpur, on 24-26 November 2010 - a new check-in forum specifically for the Asia Pacific region. Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) is also one of the first Asia Pacific airports to become 100% BCBP (bar coded boarding pass) capable [...]
28 September 2009
Access IS promotes face-up bar code scanning

Whether your ticket is read face-up or face-down by the scanner can have a significant impact on how long passengers are kept waiting. There have been successful trials to present them on mobile phones and personal digital organisers (PDAs) - a trend that may grow. This variety of media makes accurate, first-pass scanning harder and [...]
28 September 2009
Innovative airport solutions

Ultra Electronics Airport Systems has announced the launch of its latest operational solution. UltraConnect is the company’s new global aviation messaging solution, which is able to provide reliable routing of all airline message types with particular focus at this stage on IATA RP17545 BSMs (Baggage Service Messages). The solution is already in use at one [...]
28 September 2009
Streamlining airline handling operations

All Nippon Airways has chosen Damarel to supply the latest version of its full DCS back up system. The solution provide a real-time transfer of passenger and flight information between an airline’s own DCS and Damarel’s Local DCS, ensuring the best possible continuation of service and on-time performance. All Nippon Airways has chosen Damarel to supply [...]
21 September 2009
CUPPS: The platform of the future

The CUPPS (Common Use Passenger Processing System) initiative is currently in its pilot phase, which is divided into four segments: the technical trials (currently ongoing), the compliance trials, the specification update, and the specification release. Ross Falconer reports on progress and the next steps. While the technical trials are ongoing, the compliance trial parameters are being [...]
23 June 2009