All articles by Chris Lo

Storm warning: airports adapt to a changing climate

While airports, and the aviation sector more widely, continue to suffer amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the spectre of climate change…
Vision-Box Q&A: contactless travel in the age of Covid

After a year of lockdowns and travel restrictions that have brought the aviation sector to the brink of ruin, contactless…
Climate change: airport expansion projects create bitter divides in architecture

While the Covid-19 crisis has eclipsed virtually all other concerns for the airport and aviation sector in 2020, the global…
Reasons to be cheerful: 4 – Berlin Brandenburg brings cheer to Europe

Berlin Brandenburg opens, ending a decade-long debacle On 31 October, the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt (BER) – named…
Open architecture: a new vision for airport security

In software and technology, there’s a big difference between ‘open’ and ‘closed’. The most important dividing line is in interoperability;…

Airport slot suspensions: easing the pressure for ailing airlines amid Covid-19

For decades, the world’s busiest airports have used slot allocation to make sure precious slots for take-offs and landings are…
Scrubbing up: airport hand hygiene could slow pandemics

Just before Christmas 2019, an international team of academics published a study in the journal Risk Analysis on the role…
Covid-19: airports worldwide are feeling the strain

More than three months after the first case was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan, coronavirus panic continues to…
Liberating liquids: CT tech drives airport security investment

It’s been 13 years since UK police uncovered a terrorist plot to attack transatlantic flights using peroxide-based liquid explosives. The…
High flyers: legal cannabis creates grey area for US airports

Flying with Weed: The Legal Labyrinth in the US Is cannabis legal in the US? Anyone even vaguely familiar with…