Operations at Lambert-St. Louis International returned to near-normal levels remarkably fast after the airport suffered a direct hit from a powerful F4-strength tornado on April 22. The twister caused extensive damage in Terminal 1's C Concourse, tearing off part of its roof and rendering its gates inoperable.
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BAA outsourced the core IT services of the six UK airports it owns including London Heathrow to a consortium led by Capgemini UK as prime contractor and systems integrator. The deal is worth £100 million.
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TAV Airports said it has completed renovation work at Ohrid Airport and vowed that the new passenger terminal at Skopje will be completed in the fourth quarter. The Turkish airports operator won a 20-year concession to manage the two Macedonian airports in 2008, committing to a €200 million investment program.
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Alaska Airlines will begin a major renovation project of its facilities at Los Angeles International this year, moving from Terminal 3 to Terminal 6 in late 2011 and integrating its "Airport of the Future" check-in process and "modernized" gate facilities. The new location will open for operations in spring 2012.
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Japan Airlines 737-800 en route from Tokyo Haneda landed around 8 a.m. April 13 at Sendai, marking the resumption of commercial services at SDJ for the first time since it was inundated on March 11 by the earthquake-triggered tsunami.
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