Launch Date: 01/03/2008

Airside International is a quarterly magazine aimed at airport authorities, airlines, handlers, equipment providers and infrastructure developers. The magazine is a response to airside infrastructure growth worldwide. New airside development brings with it the requirement for new installations, new service-providers, new equipment and new technologies. Equally, there has never been so much red tape, be it environmental, planning or regulatory.

The winners in this new age for airport development could be many and varied. First there are the airport design, planning and construction companies who stand to gain from the significant investment airport authorities and local governments are pouring into new airside development. Second there are the manufacturers of ground support equipment on the ramp who have an increasingly wide spectrum of potential buyers to attract, be they airport operators, ground handlers, airlines or maintenance companies. Third, there are the manufacturers who supply lighting systems, hangarage, drainage systems, perimeter fences and all the other features that fill the airside landscape. Fourth, there are the airside service-providers – such as fuel suppliers and runway maintenance companies – without which any airport would come to a halt.

The airside component of the airport is awash with new technologies, new equipment and new services that have been developed to fulfil airlines’ wish-lists for a sleek, slick and uneventful airside experience. Airside International is your new guide to the decisions being made by heads of procurement in the airport operating organisations, the airlines, the ground handlers and the maintenance companies; it is also an information source related to innovation in airside infrastructure, equipment and services.