Perth Airport‘s commercial property arm, Skyfields, has begun works on a 26 hectare greenfield site earmarked for retail, lifestyle, and entertainment use, marking its largest investment phase in almost three decades.

The site, known as Dunreath Green, fronts Dunreath Drive and Tonkin Highway and represents the first major land expansion at the airport estate since the 1990s. It sits roughly 15 minutes from Perth’s central business district, next to an existing retail precinct that includes Costco and DFO, and draws an estimated four million visitors a year.

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London Gatwick has become the first UK airport to offer robotic parking, launching a new service in partnership with Stanley Robotics this August.

Located near the South Terminal, the system lets passengers drive into a dedicated private drop-off cabin, scan their booking, park and leave with their keys still in hand. Robots then lift the car by its tires and move it into a secure parking space. Passengers provide their return flight details, and the car is brought back to a cabin ready for collection when they land.

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ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, a subsidiary of Vinci Airports, submitted the Engineering, Cost and Construction Report for the new Lisbon Luís de Camões Airport to Portugal’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing on July 16, marking a key milestone in the project.

The report consolidates the results of preliminary design studies, covering the airport’s functional program, operational capacity, multimodal connectivity and long-term structural solutions. By the end of July, the final Environmental Impact Assessment will be submitted to the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) and the government, in line with the schedule set out in the concession agreement.

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Halo X-ray Technologies has completed a funding round to develop its x-ray diffraction (XRD) technology.

The round was led by Agilent Technologies, with both UKI2S and MEIF adding to their previous investments.

Halo’s XRD technology is designed to help security operators make faster and more informed screening decisions by providing a more precise understanding of the materials being screened.

XRD can work alongside primary screening x-ray or within an open architecture networked environment.

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Cologne Bonn Airport has opened a modernized security checkpoint with 11 security lanes equipped with computed tomography technology.

The addition of the CT scanners means that travelers do not need to remove electronic devices and liquids from their carry-on luggage. Meanwhile, the limit for carrying liquids has been raised to two liters per container.

A private security service provider is responsible for conducting the security screenings. Following Frankfurt and Berlin, Cologne Bonn is the third airport in Germany to organize its own security screening processes.

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Air India has announced that it will operate out of John F Kennedy International Airport’s new Terminal 6 (JFK T6) from 2028.

Other airlines that have announced movements to T6 include Star Alliance members Air Canada, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Austrian Airlines, Avianca, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, SWISS, and TAP Air Portugal – in addition to Aer Lingus, Cathay Pacific, Condor, JetBlue, Kuwait Airways, Icelandair, and Norse Atlantic.

Air India’s existing codeshare on interline partnerships with many of these carriers will offer passengers seamless connections from the same terminal to onward destinations across the Americas.

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A new report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the Transportation Security Administration‘s (TSA) cybersecurity goals and objectives are out of date.

TSA set out its aims to prioritize cybersecurity within the agency and in the transportation systems sector in its 2018 Cybersecurity Roadmap, which is now eight years old in a fast-changing threat environment.

GAO notes that as well as being outdated, the roadmap is no longer aligned with the latest Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Strategy.

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Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI Marshall) will temporarily close its longest commercial runway this summer as part of a major rehabilitation project. Construction on Runway 10-28 is scheduled to begin July 22 and continue until October 8.

The project includes milling and paving the runway along with an upgrade to its electrical system to install modern LED runway lighting. Runway 10-28 is one of two commercial runways at the airport and, at 3,200m, the longest.

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Brisbane Airport’s new plane-spotting destination, Fellowship Place, opened to the public on Sunday, July 19, marking the airport’s centenary.

The purpose-built site offers an elevated viewing platform with less obstructed views of aircraft arrivals and departures, along with shaded seating and an accessible pathway. To create the space, the site was reclassified from restricted airfield land into publicly accessible land.

At the center of Fellowship Place is the tail of a retired Fokker F28 Fellowship aircraft, donated by Aviation Australia, which had used the jet to train more than 3,000 aircraft engineers.

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Smiths Detection has received certification from the Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) for its iCmore Automatic Prohibited Items Detection System (APIDS) algorithm, covering use with OneTray and Cassioli trays on the Hi-Scan 6040 CTiX and Hi-Scan 6040 CTiX Model S screening systems, for deployment across all Italian airports.

The certification follows an independent technical evaluation by ENAC, which confirmed that both tray types deliver automatic detection performance equivalent to Smiths Detection’s SD3 reference tray.

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