Vinci Airports

The airports subsidiary of French infrastructure group Vinci is buying a majority stake in Edinburgh Airport.

According to airport operator Vinci, capacity at Osaka Kansai's international terminal has grown from 23 million to 40 million yearly passengers.

A consortium of Vinci Airports and IFM Global Infrastructure Fund will invest in a new airport being built near Poland’s capital Warsaw.

The concession agreement for the seven Cape Verde airports will run for the next four decades.

Belgrade Nikola Tesla's operator Vinci Airports disputes Air Serbia's complaints and stressed it has been making efforts to increase its workforce.

Airport operator Vinci says the French government has approved the project.

Vinci will add 13 airports in northern and central Mexico to its portfolio.

Access to medical facilities is dependent on air transport in many countries.

Routes speaks to Álvaro Leite, chief commercial officer at Aerodom, the VINCI Airports subsidiary that operates six airports in the Dominican Republic.

The aviation industry is unfairly viewed as the “bad guy” on sustainability and needs to change the narrative, airport leaders have claimed.

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This year’s summer schedule from Faro Airport was its largest ever with a massive 21.6 per cent increase in departure capacity versus summer 2015 and published schedules for next year already show a forecasted 2.9 per cent rise in departure seats on this year to over 3.5 million seats, with additional flights still expected to be added to airline flight inventories.

The transaction and the transfer of operations are to take place by the end of the first quarter of 2016 and will bring the number of airports operated by VINCI Airports to 33, including eleven in France, ten in Portugal, three in Cambodia and one in Chile (since October this year). Its airport network currently encompasses flights from over 100 different airlines, handling around 47 million passengers annually, with a turnover of € 717 million.

Faro Airport is located in the Algarve, in the southwest of Europe, and provides access to a growing market of airlines and destinations, currently operating to 69 destinations in 15 countries. Famous for providing access to the sustained leisure travel market of the Algarve, Faro Airport is also the gateway to the coastal city of Huelva, another important Spanish tourist destination.

The ANA airport group which is responsible for the management of airports in Mainland Portugal including Lisbon, Porto, Faro and the Beja civilian terminal, as well as airports in the Azores and Madeira Autonomous Regions, recorded a growth of 9.5 percent in commercial passenger traffic in 2014 compared to the previous year.