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Airport in Sihanoukville gets a major facelift

Sihanoukville International Airport is set to see higher passenger arrivals, thanks to the refurbishment of its passenger terminal, Cambodia Airports announced.

In a press release on Wednesday, the operator of the Kingdom’s three airports said the refurbishment is in preparation for an increasing number of passenger flights arriving at the coastal destination.

The beach town’s airport welcomed 338,000 passengers last year, a sharp growth of 115 percent compared to 2016.

The renovation makes the airport 80 percent larger – now totalling 4,800 square metres.

More check-in areas, boarding lounges and baggage claim zones have been added in addition to equipment comprising a new baggage handling system.

Cambodia Airports also said a project would soon be launched to extend its single runway by 800 metres. After completion, the 3.3km strip will accommodate larger aircraft from more distant markets in Asia.

Source: The Phnom Penh Post

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Suit challenges concessionaire’s winning Albany airport bid

Did a franchise operator knowingly submit a fraudulent letter from famed chef Todd English to boost its chances to open new food concessions at Albany International Airport? There’s enough uncertainty over the letter’s origins and the role it may have played in OHM Concession Group’s winning bid to warrant a trial in Albany County State Supreme Court, a judge has decided.

ALB Restaurants LLC, the operator of Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen and Green Leaf’s and Bananas at the airport, accused OHM of forging the commitment letter to bolster its effort to replace the two concessions with Todd English American Market, a Wolfgang Puck pizza franchise, and the Capital Region’s first Chick-fil-A.

But other court filings suggest that English may also have had ties to ALB Restaurants LLC. English, in a filing with the court, said the commitment letter included in OHM’s proposal wasn’t written or signed by him, and that the company’s stationery wasn’t genuine.

The airport authority announced last autumn that it had chosen OHM for three new concessions, two that would replace Villa Fresh and Green Leaf’s, both within the terminal’s secure area, and a third that would be located outside the security checkpoint.

OHM would open Chick-fil-A and a Wolfgang Puck pizza franchise in the secure area. The Todd English American Market was slated for a space across from Dunkin’ Donuts outside the secure area.

When the county airport authority approved the new concessions at its meeting last November, they were expected to be open and operating by March 1.

Work was delayed, and construction on the new Chick-fil-A, which will replace Villa Fresh, only began in mid-June.

The judge rejected ALB Restaurants’ petition to annul the contract award over improper communications during the request for proposals, saying the violations it described weren’t «knowing and willful.»

In a statement, the airport authority said that «ALB Restaurants, LLC has sued the winning food vendor proposer, OHM Concession Group, LLC and the Airport Authority alleging that the award of the Food Concession contract was not valid. The Court has dismissed all allegations of improper actions by the Airport Authority.

«The Airport Authority looks forward to resolving this matter so that we can proceed with providing the travelling public with quality food offerings.»

But an attorney for ALB Restaurants questioned the decision to proceed with construction.

«It is presumptuous for the Airport Authority to allow construction to occur, when the Judge has decided there must be a trial to determine whether this flawed RFP process was valid, and whether the alleged winner of that process, OHM, was a responsible and qualified bidder, given the questionable and unauthorized documents OHM submitted in support of their bid,» said Peter A. Lauricella, who is representing ALB Restaurants.

A conference is set for July 9 to schedule a trial date.

Source: TimesUnion

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Scalpers entra en el ‘travel retail’ con una apertura en Barajas

Scalpers prosigue su expansión con un nuevo canal. La compañía sevillana, especializada en moda masculina, ha dado su primer paso en travel retail con la puesta en marcha de una tienda en el aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas.

El establecimiento, que distribuye únicamente la colección para hombre, se encuentra en la Terminal 4 del aeropuerto madrileño.

La compañía, que nació en 2007, opera con más de 130 puntos de venta entre tiendas propias y corners en grandes almacenes. España es su primer mercado, con cerca de cien establecimientos, seguido de México.

Scalpers también opera en otros mercados en Latinoamérica, como Chile, y en Oriente Próximo donde cuenta con tiendas en Jordania, Doha y Dubái. En Europa, la marca está presente en ciudades como Londres, Ámsterdam, Amberes, Lisboa y París.

La empresa cerró el ejercicio de 2017 con una cifra de negocio de 42,5 millones de euros, frente a los 31,5 millones de euros del año anterior. En las previsiones de este año Scalpers espera llegar a los 63 millones de euros.

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Bulgarian govt to open tender for concession of Sofia Airport

Bulgaria’s government said on Wednesday it approved a decision to open a tender for awarding a concession contract for operation of Sofia International Airport. The decision was drafted by the transport minister, the government said in a statement without providing further details.
In June 2016, the transport ministry launched a tender for a 35-year Sofia Airport concession contract, seeking at least 550 million levs ($326.7 million/281.2 million euro) as a one-off upfront payment. The tender was cancelled in April 2017 by the then caretaker government, which said that the concession woild lead to a rise in airport charges and a decline of passenger traffic.

After the current coalition government took office in May 2017, transport minister Ivaylo Moskovski said it intends to relaunch the tender and use the revenue from the concession to provide aid to indebted state-owned railways operator BDZ Holding.
Following Moskovski’s commitment to relaunch the procedure, German airport operator Fraport announced it was still very interested in winning a concession contract for operating Sofia Airport.

In 2006, Fraport Twin Star Airport Management, a 60/40 joint venture of Fraport and Bulgarian company BM Star, won a 35-year concession to manage the two airports.

Earlier this year, Bulgaria’s transport ministry said it will sign a 35-year concession contract for Plovdiv Airport with a tie-up comprising China-based HNA Group and Plovdiv Airport Invest company.

According to latest available statistics from the airport operator, passenger traffic at Sofia Airport rose by an annual 7.6% to 600,000 in April. Take-offs and landings at Sofia Airport totalled 5,274 in April, up 11% year-on-year. Cargo volume increased by 9.1% year-on-year to 1,770 tonnes in April. In 2017, Sofia Airport serviced 6.49 million passengers, up 30.3% year-on-year.

Source: SeeNews