PANYNJ has hosted a training weekend at Newark Liberty Airport’s new Terminal A for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to provide a simulation of the air travel experience.


PANYNJ has hosted a training weekend at Newark Liberty Airport’s new Terminal A for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to provide a simulation of the air travel experience.

Seattle-Tacoma Airport (SEA) has announced the launch of SEA Access, the new name for its accessibility programme. This provides accessible facilities, customer service resources, and community engagement.

Sunshine Coast Airport has installed digital accessible wayfinding solution BindiMaps in order to help its passengers seamlessly navigate facilities and become one of Australia’s most accessible airports.

Vienna Airport and Austrian Airlines are implementing measures to make their services more accessible. Travellers who are blind or have low vision can be guided through the airport utilising the Aira App.

Swedavia is introducing solutions to enhance assistance services for passengers with reduced mobility at Stockholm Arlanda and Göteborg Landvetter, with “digitisation and innovation playing an important role”.

Fort McMurray International Airport has enrolled in the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Program, with the aim of ensuring that “employees and partners can better support passengers in their airport journey”.
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London Luton Airport and easyJet have hosted an accessibility familiarisation day, enabling travellers with both hidden and visual disabilities to experience all aspects of the airport’s end-to-end passenger journey.

JFKIAT, operator of Terminal 4 at JFK, has introduced sunflower lanyards for customers with hidden disabilities to alert staff of required assistance.

Dublin Airport has partnered with Hack Access to host an accessibility hackathon, focusing on finding smart solutions to tackle accessibility challenges.

The trials ran between 2-6 December and were phase two of the pilot project, launched to facilitate autonomous movement at Abu Dhabi Airport.

Dublin Airport has partnered with Hack Access to host an accessibility hackathon, focusing on finding smart solutions to tackle accessibility challenges.

The trials ran between 2-6 December and were phase two of the pilot project, launched to facilitate autonomous movement at Abu Dhabi Airport.

The new mobile app features an array of tools to help families prepare for their trip through George Bush Intercontinental and William P. Hobby airports.

Following a series of successful tests which debuted in May, All Nippon Airways is now extending the self-driving wheelchair trials at Narita Airport.

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