Piarco is building a smarter caribbean airspace
Across a vast stretch of Caribbean and Atlantic airspace, Trinidad and Tobago is changing how aircraft are monitored, separated and transferred between control centres. The transformation of the Piarco Flight Information Region is not centred on a single technology. Ground- and space-based surveillance, digital communications and increasingly flexible routing are being introduced together, as the […]
The Airport Is Visible. The Contract Behind It Is Not.
Runways, terminals and boarding bridges are the visible side of an airport concession. The less visible part can shape the infrastructure for decades: the contract that decides who invests, who carries the risk when traffic falls, when additional capacity must be delivered and what level of performance the operator must maintain. That question is becoming […]