„Aktuell“ – News from the industry

Airport Terminal – Prerequisite for Economic Development

Lisboa Red Bull Air Race 2010 will have the Tagus River as its backdrop, between the 25th April Bridge and Belem Tower, during the first week of September, ensuring the event’s continuation in Portugal.

Beginning on January 19 of this year, the Latvian national airline airBaltic will be offering a greater number of flights to the Belarusian capital city of Minsk. The increase from seven to 10 flights per week is possible thanks to partnership between airBaltic and the Belarusian national airline Belavia.

Swissport and VPOD reach agreement. Normal work to resume on 13 January.

Full year consolidated traffic growth comes in at 10.1%

December’s decline in traffic (-4.6%) was more limited than the reduction in capacity (-5.5%).

Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) announced today that the Company flew 6.0 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in December 2009, a 3.0 percent increase from the 5.8 billion RPMs flown in December 2008.

Josef Adam will be Czech Airlines’ Vice President for Human Resources, Information Technologies, and Legal Affairs from 16 January 2010.

GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. (BM&FBOVESPA: GOLL4 and NYSE: GOL), Latin America’s largest low-cost and low-fare airline, announces its preliminary traffic figures for December 2009.

Swissport is concerned about the present situation at Geneva Airport, where some of its personnel have been engaged in strike action (with the support of the VPOD union) since last weekend.