Dublin Airport

 DUBLIN AIRPORT is to gain a second main runway over the coming years, plans put forward by the airport authority approved last week by the local council. The new runway will have a paved length of 3,110 m. and will be built 1.6 km. to the north and parallel to the present main runway, 10/28, which has a length of 2,637m. With the new runway airlines should be able to offer far more distant overseas destinations. It will also replace an existing runway, 11/29 not suitable for large, heavy aircraft. Dublin 's third runway, 16/34, is a crosswind strip and measures 2,072m in length.

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport

Aéroports de Paris and the oneworld TM alliance airlines operating from Terminals 2 A, B and D at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport signed a service level agreement ( SLA ) which outlines the bases of their future partnership. It establishes a baseline of measurements of quality of service with the aim of improving the working partnership between the airport operator and the airlines, in line with Aéroports de Paris' key strategic priority to improve the quality of its services to airlines and passengers. The agreement covers two main areas: operational support and passenger satisfaction.

Cardiff International Airport

CARDIFF AIRPORT will launch of a twice week daily Eastern Airways Jetstream service to Brussels on 5 June. Flights will take one hour 40 minutes on a 29-seat Jetstream 41
aircraft. Already under way is a twice week daily Eastern service to Newcastle with a flight time of just 75 minutes. A daily non-stop service to Aberdeen is also planned. Aer Arann has taken over the Ryanair routes. Jon Horne (right), Cardiff International Airport’s managing director, welcomes Keith Watson, Eastern Airways’ head of sales & marketing to the airport.

Construction teams and technology installers are busy delivering a £7 million programme of changes at the airport to accommodate passenger growth. First of the changes, providing air traffic control facilities with the industry’s most advanced communications systems, has now been completed and commissioned.

Other major projects include:

• six extra stands for Boeing 737 aircraft
• a new first-floor walk-way, to new departure gates serving the new aircraft stands
• an additional gate-lounge
• expansion of the international departures pier
• a new arrivals concourse
• a new immigration hall for flight-arrivals
• doubling the baggage-reclaim area, including a fourth baggage carousel
• doubling the size of the “51° Executive Lounge”
• addition of 700 extra car parking spaces.

Belfast Airport to be renamed after George Best
Belfast City Airport renamed the George Best Airport after the legendary soccer player who died last November. The new name was officially launched on May 22, which would have been the 60th birthday of the former Manchester United and Northern Ireland star. "George Best was the finest footballer Northern Ireland has ever produced and one of the greatest footballers to grace the world stage," said Brian Ambrose, the airport's chief executive. "We believe that renaming the airport after George is a fitting and permanent tribute to his footballing brilliance."

The decision to rename the airport followed discussions with the player's father Dickie and other close relatives. The airport serves 18 destinations and was last year used by 2.2 million passengers.

Docklands Light Railways chiefs are delighted with the response to the new King George V Dock extension, which takes in London City Airport . Passenger numbers are around the 13,000 mark weekdays, and rising. The link from Canning Town , primarily built for the airport, is also having an effect on the hitherto somewhat cut off riverside area to the east of the Canning Town flyover with new stations at Pontoon Dock and West Silvertown . Work has now started on the actual tunnel under the Thames with completion due of the Woolwich Arsenal extension in early 2009, a real breakthrough in terms of transport infrastructure to North Kent . Running just behind this project (due to open in 2010) is another scheme to convert the existing North London line from Canning Town to Stratford to a DLR track with through trains via London City http://www.tfl.gov.uk/dlr