EUROPEAN ECONOMY STIFLED BY LACK OF AIRPORT CAPACITY – ACI
September 1st, 2014
EUROPE is suffering economically from commercial aviation flights diverting to the Middle East and Turkey, where airports have far more spare capacity, Angela Gittens, the director general of Airports Council International World (ACI World) has claimed. Highlighting growth at Dubai and Istanbul airports at ICAO’s first Global Aviation Cooperation Symposium (GACS), she said: “Internal constraints in Europe [on airport capacity] are allowing more traffic to be carried to other areas – especially in the Middle East, where they have kept up with capacity, and ...
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