Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance, today inaugurated its second lounge at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. Starting October 13, it will welcome First and Business Class passengers and Star Alliance Gold status customers on member airline flights departing from gates 10 to 38 in Terminal 1. Eligible United Club and Air Canada Maple Leaf Club members may also access the lounge.

Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance, is now offering paid access to the Star Alliance-branded lounge at Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS) airport. In addition to offering complimentary access to Star Alliance Gold members, and First Class and Business Class passengers, the lounge will now welcome other Star Alliance passengers regardless of membership status or cabin class, for a nominal fee.

The landing of a Qatar Airways flight from Doha on Wednesday morning local time marked the formal opening of the southern runway of Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER).

A Cessna 560 aircraft does a calibration flight at the Chengdu Tianfu International Airport in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, Nov. 3, 2020. The calibration flight will last for about 30 days.

An emergency drill was held at Pudong International Airport in east China's Shanghai, Oct. 16, 2020.

In order to thoroughly implement the important instructions of President Xi Jinping on building a comprehensive transport system, speed up the building of China into a civil aviation power, win the fight against poverty, and give further play to the role of small and medium-sized airports in developing regional economy and improving people's travel conditions, the Ministry of Finance and CAAC jointly issued the Notice on Revising Interim Measures on the Management of Subsidies for Small and Medium-sized Civil Aviation Airports on April 30, in accordance with the relevant regulations on the use and management of the Civil Aviation Development Fund. The revised subsidy measures further increase the support for small and medium-sized airports in the central and western regions, especially those in areas of deep poverty, border areas, areas of ethnic minorities, old revolutionary base areas, remote and backward areas and areas with poor ground transport.

Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport and Haikou Meilan International Airport both achieved a five-star standard in China, while Beijing Daxing International Airport, as well as another nine airports, received four stars, according to the 2020 Airport Rating by Skytrax, the London-based research agency in the air transport industry.

The newly-built Beijing Daxing International Airport has seen more flights move there from the Beijing Capital International Airport.

Wuhan Tianhe Airport saw 11,714 passenger trips on the first day of resumption on Wednesday, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

Changi Airport Group (CAG) announced today that in view of the steep decline in passenger traffic and the likelihood that air travel demand will not return to pre-Covid-19 levels in the near term, terminal operations at Changi Airport will be consolidated. This move will enable CAG and its airport partners to save on running costs such as utilities and cleaning as well as to optimise resources across the airport's terminals to better match the low travel demand and airlines' flight operations.