Resilient airports and air travel

On a narrow atoll barely rising above the sea, sits one of the most remarkable pieces of infrastructure in the world, not because it is the largest, or the busiest, but because of what it means for a country that might otherwise be stranded.

Bahrain Airport Company (BAC), the operator and managing body of Bahrain International Airport (BIA), announced a fire emergency exercise at the Central Utility Complex (CUC) at Bahrain International Airport

Flights from Australia to Bali were canceled due to volcanic ash, which can severely damage aircraft, especially engines. Airlines assess risk based on ash spread and wind direction, prioritizing safety over travel plans.

Many airports including Dubai, Sofia and New York have already started preparing their infrastructure and operations to deal with climate disruptions.

Air travel not only contributes to heat-trapping pollution — the resulting warming now poses new and growing challenges for air travel.

Airports around the world are relocating sensitive electrical equipment to rooftops to protect it from flooding, reinforcing runways to handle extreme temperature swings and revving up air conditioning as climate change complicates operations.

The results from this case study demonstrate a significant improvement of the volcanic ash simulation when using Aeolus-assimilated meteorological fields, with differences in wind speed reaching up to 8 m/s when compared to the control run.

This study addresses the impacts of natural hazards and human-induced disasters on airports, as well as the associated direct losses and cascading economic impacts affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people.

Projected flooding from storm surges, erosion, and sea-level rise may disrupt vital operations of the state’s largest airports in the coming decades

Climate change poses significant and increasing risks to aviation in the years ahead, a new report carried out by Egis and the UK Met Office on behalf of EUROCONTROL concludes.