To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, the Airport Operators Association, the trade body for UK airports, is highlighting work being done by airports. Karen Dee, the AOA’s chief executive, said: “International Women’s Day is an important opportunity to highlight all the great wo...

Today [Monday 28 March 2022], the Airport Operators Association is launching its report Reconnecting the UK: recovering aviation connectivity. The report shows that 2021 was worse than 2020, with airports seeing the lowest passenger numbers since 1983. It outlines the challenge ahead for the ...

Today, the Airport Operators Association has signed the “Toulouse Declaration” on Europe-wide aviation decarbonisation on behalf of UK airports alongside European governments as well as UK and European airports, airlines and other aviation and aerospace associations and companies. UK aviation...

Commenting on the Prime Minister’s announcement on travel restrictions, Airport Operators Association Chief Executive Karen Dee said: “Removing all the temporary travel restrictions is a welcome recognition that they no longer serve a purpose, now omicron is well-established in the UK. “Th...

Commenting on the announcement that travel to the US will be possible from 8 November, Airport Operators Association Chief Executive Karen Dee said: “The reopening of the US to fully vaccinated travellers is another important step towards normalising travel again. "While testing requirements...

Welcoming the Government’s announcement that lateral flow tests will replace PCR tests for Day 2 tests from 24 October, Airport Operators Association Chief Executive Karen Dee said: “This is good news for families travelling abroad during the upcoming half-term holidays in England, Wales and ...

Commenting on the extension of the exemption from quarantine to include fully vaccinated passengers entering the UK from the USA and amber list countries in Europe, Airport Operators Association Chief Executive Karen Dee said: “This is a significant and welcome step forward that will be a boost...

Airport Operators Association share their outlook for 2021: With government taking an overly cautious approach to reopening international travel and with the current green list representing only 1.7% of 2019 passenger numbers, there is a real risk that summer 2021 is as bad or worse than summer 2...

Ahead of the 17 May restart of international travel, the Airport Operators Association and airport CEOs and Managing Directors have written to the Prime Minister to warn him that the UK’s overly cautious approach puts more than 1.5m jobs at risk. The letter also sets out the actions the airport...

As the Government releases its Global Travel Taskforce framework, new research by ABTA, The Travel Association and the Airport Operators Association, has revealed that the cost of PCR testing for international travel in the UK is double that of testing in other European countries. With a PCR test...

Commenting on the interim report of Sir Peter Hendy’s Union Connectivity Review, Airport Operators Association Chief Executive Karen Dee said: “The recognition of the detrimental impact of Air Passenger Duty and a commitment to review domestic APD to reduce its impact is very welcome. Domesti...

Commenting on Prime Minister’s statement to Parliament, Airport Operators Association Chief Executive Karen Dee said: “The Prime Minister’s recognition of aviation’s important economic role, in particular for businesses that rely on access to international markets or visitors to the UK, was...

Figures calculated by the Airport Operators Association show that UK airports saw losses of £163.8m in January 2021, prior to the most recent travel restrictions coming into force. That means airports lost £5.3m a day. In January, the UK Government published the details of how commercial airpor...

Responding to the announcement that all international arrivals will need to present a negative COVID-19 test for entry into the UK, Airport Operators Association Chief Executive Karen Dee said: “The introduction of pre-departure tests is understandable from a public health perspective but the G...

Following the publication by the European Commission of the aviation contingency measures, Director General of ACI EUROPE Olivier Jankovec and Chief Executive of the Airport Operators Association Karen Dee said in a joint statement: “The certainty provided by the European Commission’s proposa...