IARO Express

IARO Express, Issue 623 - 17th April 2025

Astana airport line progress
Battery power to Lubeck airport
Tunnelling of the final segment of Eglinton Crosstown West Extension starts.
Salford Crescent's transformation
Taichung Airport Line progress

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IARO Express, Issue 622 - 27th March 2025

Chennai airport metro to be extended
Melbourne Airport Rail Link approved again
Oradea – tram to airport planned as part of tram-train network
London Luton’s expansion plans approved
Port of Huntsville – growth continues

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IARO Express, Issue 621 - 20th March 2025

Air and rail ticketing  standards converging?
Brightline West secures further funding
Gatwick – mode share expansion planning consent infeasible
Interesting data?
Progress with Polish high speed train network 

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IARO Express, Issue 620 - 13th March 2025

Football stadium regeneration may help disentangle the Manchester hub
Luxembourg Airport tram opens
Aus$1 bn second rail connection for Sydney’s new airport announced
Delhi Airport people-mover delayed
Istanbul’s two airports to be connected – sometime

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IARO Express, Issue 619 - 6th March 2025

Two autonomous ‘rail’ transit projects in Mexico
Madrid: Line 5 to Barajas
Portal North Bridge Project advances
Taiyuan opens airport metro 

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IARO Express, Issue 618 - 27th February 2025

Birmingham Airport looking ahead
Grand Paris Express: new dates
Canada’s high-speed rail project to bypass Quebec airport?
Trains between London and Stansted Airport disrupted due to planned maintenance
Better rail connection for Islip

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IARO Express, Issue 617 - 20th February 2025

Heathrow Southern Rail Link plans resurface – again
Austin – RFI for phase 1 launched
Air France customers can now buy train tickets using air miles
Tren Maya to have a freight terminal at Cancun airport
Vueling to stop operating the Barcelona - Madrid air bridge

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IARO Express, Issue 616 - 13th February 2025

Trenitalia to start Paris - Lyon St-Exupéry - Marseille service
Dubai - Abu Dhabi high speed train to serve two airports 
Tenders invited for Birmingham Airport – HS2 people-mover
Prototype of Western Sydney Airport Metro train tested
New trains for MARTA

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IARO Express, Issue 615 - 6th February 2025

Mexico’s Chetumal Tren Maya station up and running
Madrid’s  Line 5 being extended to the airport
easyJet – integrated booking with Deutsche Bahn (DB)
Brightline West now expects to launch in December 2028
Newcastle’s new trains to enter full service in 2026 

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IARO Express, Issue 614 - 30th January 2025

Mexico City’s new airport train
Calgary Airport train service options under review
Funding finalised for first phase of Côte d’Azur railway enhancement programme
Brussels Airport new tram service coming
RER to Casablanca

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IARO Express, Issue 613 - 23rd January 2025

Ottawa Airport light rail opens
Los Angeles Union to become a through station
Another Chinese puzzle
New trains for Madrid airport metro
Derry/Londonderry link being studied

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IARO Express, Issue 612 - 16th January 2025

Amtrak drops plans to serve Miami airport 
Bali – subway and LRT
New monorail vehicles  for Chongqing
Consultation on the Strategic Investment Plan for West of England
Flix Train to SXF?

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IARO Express, Issue 611 - 19th December 2024

European Sleeper no longer serves Schiphol
Shenyang Airport – two Line 2s!
HST to Lagos – but not yet
Alstom to operate Los Angeles Metrolink
Gatwick – Guildford line to close in early February

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IARO Express, Issue 610 - 12th December 2024

Two-way air-rail cargo at Zhengzhou
Progress on rail connection to Mexico City’s second airport
Stadler awarded Atlanta CBTC contract
Tallinn airport tram temporarily suspended
Joe Swash joins Heathrow Express to launch the HeXmas Hotline

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IARO Express, Issue 609 - 5th December 2024

Riyadh Metro opens
Sanle Tourism Railway part-opens
TEX Rail – more trains on order
No extra Cambridge – Stansted trains
First phase of Thessaloniki metro opens

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IARO Express, Issue 608 - 28th November 2024

Successful IARO Meeting in Milan
AirTrain Newark automated people-mover contract awarded
GTS Rail Operations -  the new operator for the Elizabeth line
Norske Tog to take over Flytoget’s rolling stock
Success for Borealis
Manila Aquino – LRT opens

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IARO Express, Issue 607 - 21st November 2024

Milan 2024 Meeting - Successful Technical Site Visit
Arlanda Express at 25
Changsha airport maglev to be extended
LAX people mover begins new phase of testing
First month of electrified Caltrain service sees 750,000 riders
The Manchester tangle: the saga continues

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IARO Express, Issue 606 - 14th November 2024

Lahore metro being expanded
Cluj-Napoca cross-city rail project makes progress
Air Canada expands its intermodal strategy
UK airports bought by Canadian pension fund
Košice – airport spur under consideration

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IARO Express, Issue 604 - 7th November 2024

Stadler to supply light rail vehicles to Salt Lake City
The problem of Stuttgart 21’s rising costs
Signalling issues delay new DLR trains
Passenger journeys Great Britain Q1 2024/5
RATP Dev and JR East sign strategic collaboration agreement for Manila rail project 

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IARO Express, Issue 603 - 31st October 2024

Los Angeles – one step closer
Ontario Airport underground shuttle project input sought
New line for new Lagos airport
Funding for Northern Powerhouse Rail development  approved
Paris Orly’s Line 14 connection

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IARO Express, Issue 602 - 24th October 2024

Congratulations, Luton DART
Brightline marks one year in Orlando
Lagos Red Line: work in progress
Enhancements to Manchester services in 2026
Works on new subway line to Bucharest airports 

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IARO Express, Issue 601 - 17th October 2024

Air-rail alliances
CAA Passenger Survey Report 2023
Early morning trains to Geneva Airport for autumn holiday travellers
Brightline West secures FRA grant
CDG Express delayed to 2027

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IARO Express, Issue 600 - 10th October 2024

Heathrow Express appoints new business lead
SWISS and SBB expand Air Rail partnership 
The Manchester tangle – the saga continues
Vnukovo better connected
RFP Issued for Eglinton Crosstown West Extension Stations

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IARO Express, Issue 599 - 3rd October 2024

Gothenburg high speed line funding agreed
Major Washington DC Metro airport connections closed 20-30 December
Heathrow Express launches Advance Discounted Tickets
GRU Airport metro extended
Eurostar and SkyTeam to sell joint air-rail tickets

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IARO Express, Issue 587 - 11th July 2024

• East Midlands Airport logistics park expansion
• Melbourne mediator backs government’s above-ground airport station
• Poland: CPK shrunk?
• Sound Transit - new light rail facility near airport
• New Atlanta intercity rail hub to connect to airport

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IARO Express, Issue 586 - 4th July 2024

• Yangtze River Delta high-speed loop train launched
• Flytoget eyes an open access future
• Heathrow Express secures track access agreement to June 2028
• “A Huge Milestone” for California High Speed Rail
• More services for Manassas?

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IARO Express, Issue 585 - 27th June 2024

• DB completes sale of Arriva
• Progress in Hyderabad
• More Elizabeth line trains ordered
• Investors submit revised bid for London Heathrow
• Local transportation leaders urge Brightline expansion to Tampa 

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IARO Express, Issue 584 - 20th June 2024

• Melbourne Airport rail link arguments continue
• Stuttgart 21 delayed until 2026
• First test trips along Finch West route
• New trains for old Luanda airport route
• Manchester Airports Group seeks international expansion

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IARO Express, Issue 583 - 13th June 2024

• Manchester Airport on planned Liverpool - Manchester high speed rail route
• News from Ottawa
• SWISS and SBB expand Air Rail from Geneva
• Herat railway extension work under way
• “Airport-Rail Inter-modality in Southeast Asia: Opportunities and the Impact of High-Speed Rail”

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IARO Express, Issue 582 - 6th June 2024

• Half-price train tickets to Brisbane Airport
• In-town check-in in Rome
• Girona –  light rail to airport?
• Half of Tyne & Wear’s new fleet complete
• Metrolinx begins Bloor-Dundas tunnel construction

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IARO Express, Issue 581 - 30th May 2024

• Alberta to develop passenger rail master plan
• Abu Dhabi Airports working on Etihad Rail connection to new terminal
• Light rail for Reus?
• Budapest airport rail project
• A personal recommendation for the RA3

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IARO Express, Issue 580 - 23rd May 2024

• Light rail link for Helsinki Vantaa
• Opening dates for Grand Paris Express lines 16 & 17
• BYD monorail for Congonhas
• Portal North Bridge will (ultimately) help ease access to Newark
• Siemens Mobility wins Edinburgh contract

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IARO Express, Issue 579 - 16th May 2024

• Three new rail links to open next year:

-          to Barcelona airport

-          to Honolulu airport

-          and to Los Angeles airport

• New tram links for Manchester airport re-surface
• New Sharjah Etihad Rail station to be close to the airport

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IARO Express, Issue 578 - 9th May 2024

• Porto link moves ahead
• Suburban rail link planned for Konya airport
• News from Mumbai
• Siemens trains for new Las Vegas-Los Angeles route
• Eurostar – 100% renewable energy by 2030

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IARO Express, Issue 577 - 2nd May 2024

• Air France and KLM open refurbished Air&Rail lounge in Brussels
• Caltrain line electrification complete
• Metro Manila Subway Project – progress
• Piccadilly Line to Heathrow to close to prepare for new trains
• Atlanta airport station closed for upgrade

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IARO Express, Issue 576 - 25th April 2024

• Haneda Airport Access Line
• UP Express to make fewer stops
• A good year for the Luton Airport Express
• Istanbul’s airport railway extended
• Grand Paris Express airport ticketing 

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IARO Express, Issue 575 - 18th April 2024

• Tacking the Melbourne Airport link stalemate
• Dublin Airport heavy rail link
• St Lucie River bridge replacement
• Cardiff Airport line services to be increased
• New services for Salt Lake City Airport

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IARO Express, Issue 574 - 11th April 2024

• Progress in Prague 
• Eglinton link to Pearson – next stage
• New Lyon operating contract 
• New cargo airport for Cape Town

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IARO Express, Issue 573 - 4th April 2024

• Northern Powerhouse Rail cut back, but will still serve Manchester Airport
• Phnom Penh – new airport, new  light rail connection
• Rail-bus-air ticketing initiative launched by Dublin Express and Irish Rail
• South Shore double track project complete next week
• “The future is multimodal” 

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IARO Express, Issue 572 - 28th March 2024

• Haramain High-Speed Railway enhances service capacity for Ramadan
• Brightline Florida data
• New options for HS2 to Manchester Airport
• New transit hub for Newark Airport
• Snowfall to offer rail content to Spanish agency consortium Grupo GEA

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IARO Express, Issue 571 - 21st March 2024

• MultiModX
• Caltrain - EMU testing milestone
• Canary Islands’ major airports to be rail connected
• Manchester Airport has potential add £16.3bn a year to UK economy by 2050
• Enough said?

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IARO Express, Issue 570 - 14th March 2024

• News from Kuala Lumpur
• Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit free fares scheme
• Shortlist of names for new Elizabeth Line operator revealed
• Ottawa’s Trillium Line delayed further
• Fornebu to get a metro connection

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IARO Express, Issue 569 - 7th March 2024

• New trains for Cleveland…
• …and new trains for Newcastle
• New trams for re-opening of the Toulouse airport line
• Grand Paris Line 17 contracts
• East Japan Railway to work with the University of Birmingham

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IARO Express, Issue 568 - 29th February 2024

• Heathrow in 2023
• Finnbus?
• New hydrogen powered line to Busan’s new airport
• Aquino Airport light rail to open in September
• Rail for Eagle County – and Steamboat Springs?

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IARO Express, Issue 567 - 22nd February 2024

• Bali airport railway to open in September 2024
• 80% of new Piccadilly line trains will be built in Yorkshire
• Malaysia Airlines and AccesRail
• Port of Huntsville - record growth in 2024
• Change in Sweden

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IARO Express, Issue 566 - 15th February 2024

• Katowice’s airport railway
• Plans for Orlando links move ahead
• Fort Lauderdale – bridge or tunnel debate continues
• Airline check-in at Shanghai
• HS2 – some light?

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IARO Express, Issue 565 - 8th February 2024

• Chengdu’s line 19 connects two international airports
• Eglinton Crosstown West Extension contracts awarded
• Brightline West project update
• Line 17 at Le Bourget – in service in 2026
• Inverness Airport’s station – a year old!

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IARO Express, Issue 564 - 1st February 2024

• New station for Teesside Airport
• Late night UP Express service returns
• Vilnius Airport to get new station under Lithuanian Airports master plan
• Luzon inter-regional railway study
• High-Speed Rail for Dallas, with a DFW connection?

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IARO Express, Issue 563 - 25th January 2024

• Brightline bottleneck to be eased
• Manchester Metrolink operator contract extended
• Auckland Light Rail project cancelled
• Airtrain Newark replacement programme moves ahead
• Direct link to Torino reopened

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IARO Express, Issue 562 - 18th January 2024

• Alstom to run Airtrain Newark
• TriMet to Portland (Or) airport – new disruption
• Heathrow Express and the Elizabeth Line
• Major Manila North-South Commuter Railway contract awarded
• Israel plans railway network expansion

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IARO Express, Issue 561 - 11th January 2024

• Air Canada intermodal bookings – a follow-up
• Los Angeles Airport Metro Connector update
• Kinshasa airport link to be the first phase of its network.
• One way to make money!
• Progress with Stuttgart 21

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IARO Express, Issue 560 - 21st December 2023

• Great Britain station usage statistics April 2022 – March 2023
• Madrid airport high speed rail link contract awarded 
• First section of Maya Train opens
• Air Canada introduces intermodal ticketing
• CPK signs an agreement with ADIF to boost the development of Poland’s high-speed railway network

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IARO Express, Issue 559 - 14th December 2023

• EU recovery funds underwrite two more Italian route modernisation schemes
• Dallas Fort Worth Airport contracts with Alstom for APM modernisation
• Claire Mann appointed TfL's Chief Operating Officer
• EasyJet and Airportr in London and Geneva
• North-South Commuter Railway express EMUs ordered 

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IARO Express, Issue 558 - 7th December 2023

• CAT orders new Stadler trains
• Fort Lauderdale river crossing arguments continue
• Ferrovial sells Heathrow stake
• CHSRA and Burbank Airport reach agreement
• Navi Mumbai opens first stage of airport metro line 

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IARO Express, Issue 557 - 30th November 2023

• Successful IARO Meeting this week
• Vienna – Bratislava connection accelerated in Austrian €21bn rail investment plan
• Brightline West Project moves forward
• Air + High-Speed Rail project launched
• Off-airport check-in for Galápagos 

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IARO Express, Issue 556 - 23rd November 2023

• SWISS International Air Lines expands Air Rail Network
• Brightline at Fort Lauderdale - bridge or tunnel?
• High speed rail to Barajas by 2026
• Second intermodal interline agreement for Air India
• Riga starts terminal build tender process

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IARO Express, Issue 555 - 16th November 2023

• Opening date for bigger and better Gatwick Airport station announced
• Torino Airport – city services to re-start
• Berlin’s U7 airport extension
• Update from Nursultan (formerly Astana, Kazakhstan)
• Airtrain JFK disrupted during terminal reconstruction

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IARO Express, Issue 554 - 9th November 2023

• New Orleans airport to get daily Amtrak  service
• “More than 5,000 Amsterdam flights to be replaced by rail in 2030”
• Heathrow Southern Railway Limited appoints new Chief Executive and two Board Directors 
• Brightline’s Orlando ridership

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IARO Express, Issue 553 - 2nd November 2023

• Helsinki Airport’s 10-year development programme complete
• Heathrow’s results for the first 9 months of 2023
• Progress with Honolulu’s transit system
• MAX Red Line to Portland (Oregon) airport re-opens
• Viracopos regional line dropped

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IARO Express, Issue 552 - 26th October 2023

• New express bus services for Heathrow
• DB to sell Arriva
• Hydrogen fuel cell multiple units for California
• Better Charleroi connection – but still by shuttle bus
• Philippines Northrail project finally closed

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IARO Express, Issue 551 - 19th October 2023

• Self-service check-in facilities coming to Kuala Lumpur Sentral
• Mid-life refurbishment for Copenhagen’s Metro trains
• Brightline to develop AI safety system after grant approval
• Muscat airport link planned
• DART temporarily closed because of Luton Airport fire

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IARO Express, Issue 550 - 12th October 2023

• More on the Maya Train
• Delhi’s new airport takes shape
• Domestic air passengers in Germany moving to rail
• Progress with Canada’s High Frequency Rail
• The HS2 saga

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IARO Express, Issue 549 - 5th October 2023

• Changes to Hong Kong’s airport line coming
• Alger airport metro work re-starts
• New EMUs for Bari Airport service
• South Bend rail connections to be improved
• Bristol Airport’s new public transport hub 

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IARO Express, Issue 548 - 28th September 2023

• How SMART has regained ridership while avoiding California’s transit ‘fiscal cliff’
• CAF wins Naples Airport train contract
• First trains delivered for Mexico’s Tren Maya project 
• Hudson Tunnel Project To Receive $6.88 Billion Federal Grant
• The Railway Research and Innovation Centre 

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IARO Express, Issue 547 - 21st September 2023

• Register now for the IARO Conference and Networking Meeting
• Italy: major programme to bring rail and air closer together
• Congratulations to Angie Doll, GTR’s new CEO
• Brightline to serve Orlando from 22 September
• Rail, road, air freight interchange for Winnipeg

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IARO Express, Issue 546 - 14th September 2023

• Heathrow’s RailAir bus routes improve
• Heathrow Southern Rail Link gets boost from London Mayor
• San Francisco service improvements
• Melbourne airport link – the debate continues
• Luton Airport’s shuttle buses re-deployed!

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IARO Express, Issue 545 - 7th September 2023

• Luton Airport DART celebrates 1 million passengers in 147 days
• Improved connection for UP Express
• Air India partners with AccesRail
• Trains and planes on the Barcelona – Madrid corridor
• Melbourne’s airport railway 

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IARO Express, Issue 544 - 31st August 2023

• Belgrade Airport rail link construction to begin next year
• Dublin’s airport metro progress
• Prague – progress with tram to future airport railway
• TfL tendering for DLR operating contract
• Mysuru (Mysore) airport and railway plans in conflict 

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IARO Express, Issue 543 - 17th August 2023

• First segment of Montreal’s REM open
• New connection for Seoul Gimpo airport
• Brightline delayed launch of Orlando service
• Air France launches remote baggage check-in service in Paris
• EasyJet and Jet2 start twilight bag drop at Glasgow airport

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IARO Express, Issue 542 - 10th August 2023

• Options to be explored for rail link for Calgary airport
• New S-Bahn trains for Munich
• New Piccadilly Line trains begin testing in Germany
• Mexican government fosters rail revival
• More on CPK – Central Poland Airport

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IARO Express, Issue 541 - 3rd August 2023

• Poland’s CPK rail programme
• New inter-regional double-deck trainsets for Switzerland
• HS2 launches procurement process for automated people mover
• First segment of Honolulu's Skyline rail system open
• TSA assessing airside-to-airside connectivity by coach  

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IARO Express, Issue 440 - 27th July 2023

• Flytoget – is the end in sight?
• New operator for Leipzig-Halle
• Three consortia qualify for Canada’s HFR Project
• Rail link for Edmonton?
• Airport drop-off charges at UK airports 

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IARO Express, Issue 539 - 20th July 2023

• Bergamo begins work on airport rail station
• Hong Kong re-opens in-town check-in
• Brightline finishes Orlando route construction 
• Plans revived for U-Bahn extension to Berlin airport
• PRT for Noida

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IARO Express, Issue 538 - 13th July 2023

• How SMART has regained ridership while avoiding California’s transit ‘fiscal cliff’
• CAF wins Naples Airport train contract
• First trains delivered for Mexico’s Tren Maya project 
• Hudson Tunnel Project To Receive $6.88 Billion Federal Grant
• The Railway Research and Innovation Centre

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IARO Express, Issue 537 - 6th July 2023

• Manila Clark’s rail link
• Work starts on Abidjan metro
• Doncaster Sheffield Airport may re-open
• “There will be no AirTrain to La Guardia Airport”
• ÖBB orders double-deck Railjet trains as passenger traffic booms 

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IARO Express, Issue 535 - 29th June 2023

• HART gears up for service launch
• Airport link is part of  Kansas City area plan
• Sydney Airport Metro consortium chosen
• Mayan Train to serve Chetumal airport
• Nice airport services 

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IARO Express, Issue 534 - 22nd June 2023

• Round “the Bend” no more?
• News from Hong Kong MTR
• Report suggests link to Quebec Airport
• Salerno link costed
• Heathrow’s Regulatory Accounts

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IARO Express, Issue 532 - 8th June 2023

• Heathrow Express – celebrating 25 years
• East – west commuter rail for Miami Airport?
• Tianjin Daxing link news
• Proposed high speed rail  link to planned new Lisbon airport
• New shuttle for Sonoma County Airport

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IARO Express, Issue 531 - 1st June 2023

• Happy 25^th, Heathrow Express!
• Consultations on Los Angeles’ C and K Line services
• Emirates opens check-in centre in Dubai's financial district
• Twilight bag-drop service expanded at Edinburgh Airport
• Metro to Istanbul Airport open

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IARO Express, Issue 530 - 25th May 2023

• Katowice – Ostrava high speed line alignment selected
• Better Heathrow rail access
• SFO People-mover serves Terminal 1 again
• Etihad plans air-rail intermodality at Daxing
• ITA Launches New Rail+Plane Tickets With Trenitalia

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IARO Express, Issue 529 - 18th May 2023

• Inverness – problem being solved?
• AirPortr in Vienna
• Novel system for San Jose airport
• Philippines North-South Commuter Railway contracts signed
• St Louis light rail system to try out metal detectors

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IARO Express, Issue 528 - 11th May 2023

• Bordeaux tramway reaches the airport
• Chicago’s Blue Line helps during highway reconstruction
• Eagle County airport line concept dropped
• Inverness: “we have a problem”
• MTR’s solar photovoltaic projects

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IARO Express, Issue 527 - 4th May 2023

• Heathrow in Q1
• Much news from Brightline
• More on the Palma  light rail project
• Melbourne Airport Rail link delayed
• New trains to Schiphol 

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IARO Express, Issue 526 - 27th April 2023

• Tri-rail ridership continues upward trend – with much airport use
• First section of Honolulu light rail to open: airport section is next
• BucureÈ™ti airport metro construction contract awarded
• Class 360s sent for scrap
• Solar power at Lyon St-Exupéry 

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IARO Express, Issue 525 - 20th April 2023

• Auckland route consultation
• Luton Airport passenger numbers increase: DART launched
• Work in Portland will enhance airport line
• Transport minister praises ERL’s initiative
• Gepard Express to take over Brno – Wien Airport service

And finally…
“Understanding the importance of Non-Exhaust Emissions for the rail industry”

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IARO Express, Issue 524 - 13th April 2023

• Washington National Airport direct link re-opens
• More calls for Avalon Airport Rail Link
• Dublin rail link – planning consent applied for
• Heathrow Express and the Elizabeth Line
• Finnair to replace two routes with buses to reduce its carbon footprint

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IARO Express, Issue 523 - 6th April 2023

• New Metro link between Washington and airport proposed
• Rio converts BRT to  light rail
• Ottawa airport line – more delay
• Abidjan update
• Girona update

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IARO Express, Issue 522 - 30th March 2023

• Luton DART open
• World’s fastest airport trains.
• Zagreb airport and city centre to be connected by train
• Brightline to open to Orlando airport service  in the next few months
• Progress with railway to Manila Clark airport

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IARO Express, Issue 521 - 23rd March 2023

• Mode of transport to selected UK airports
• Chile to tender light rail line to Santiago airport
• ITA Airways Signs Air & Rail Integration MoU 
• New air rail project in Guatemala
• Brightline West, Los Angeles to Las Vegas High-Speed Rail
• University of Birmingham to work with Saudi Arabia Railways

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IARO Express, Issue 520 - 16th March 2023

• Dublin airport link update
• New Haneda airport connection
• Brightline to Orlando coming soon
• Manchester – some progress
• Huangshi tram progress

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IARO Express, Issue 519 - 9th March 2023

• Elizabeth line update: nearing completion
• Portuguese high speed rail to serve Porto airport
• Tel Aviv airport line to be enhanced
• Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood – transit plans 
• New early morning Stansted Express service

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IARO Express, Issue 518 - 2nd March 2023

• Luton DART to start carrying passengers
• Penang light rail
• Linate connected
• Thomson-East Coast line extended
• ·Premium bus services for flyers 

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IARO Express, Issue 517 - 23rd February 2023

• Manchester Airport line platform extension work
• Grand Central to JFK
• Tram for Ulsan airport
• Prague – airport link’s city terminal being modernised
• Montreal progress

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IARO Express, Issue 516 - 16th February 2023

• Green light for the construction of the new railway Milano Malpensa Terminal 2 – Gallarate
• Changchun T3 integrated into high speed rail  station
• UP Express hit by brake disc problem
• New trains for the Piccadilly Line
• Metro link to Panama Tocumen to open soon

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IARO Express, Issue 515 - 9th February 2023

• Most Don Muang airport trains now use new Bangkok terminus
• Inverness Airport station open
• Work on Palma link to start this year
• Chennai Metro Rail stations to have in-town check-in
• Progress with Portland’s Red Line

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IARO Express, Issue 514 - 2nd February 2023

• Orlando’s Sunshine Corridor
• Metro to Wuhan’s GA airport opens
• National Express Group awarded €1 billion rail contract serving Düsseldorf 
• Luton DART update
• Heathrow fares

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IARO Express, Issue 513 - 26th January 2023

• Istanbul – metro to Sabiha Gókçen airport open
• Prague (Praha) airport link update
• Heathrow flight departure boards installed at Canary Wharf
• Auckland’s  light rail makes progress
• Toronto’s Crosstown  light rail delayed  

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IARO Express, Issue 513 - 26th January 2023

• Istanbul – metro to Sabiha Gókçen airport open
• Prague (Praha) airport link update
• Heathrow flight departure boards installed at Canary Wharf
• Auckland’s  light rail makes progress
• Toronto’s Crosstown  light rail delayed  

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IARO Express, Issue 512 - 19th January 2023

• Amsterdam-Schiphol metro funded
• Heraklion tram plans revived
• Future disruption at Old Oak Common
• Miami-Orlando Airport service to start late summer
• Siemens Mobility to deliver turnkey metro system for Western Sydney Airport Metro

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IARO Express, Issue 511 - 12th January 2023

• Madrid Barajas to get high speed connection
• London City Airport planning to improve public transport access
• Air cargo by rail between Osaka and Tokyo
• San Diego considers whether to continue rail expansion plan
• Arriva launches Schiphol night services

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IARO Express, Issue 510 - 5th January 2023

• Nanning – high speed rail to airport
• Consortium to construct Venice Airport rail connection
• Fort Lauderdale commuter rail service closer
• Laing O’Rourke to build Birmingham’s HS2 Interchange station
• Friends in MTR

Plus: “Airport Railways of the World” Update

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IARO Express, Issue 509 - 22nd December 2022

• Report from Doha: Airport Metro Link
• Katowice airport rail link coming
• Junction improvements speed up Burbank trains
• News from Manchester
• First Vehicle for Frankfurt’s new Sky Line delivered

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IARO Express, Issue 508 - 15th December 2022

• GB airport rail station usage
• Dulles Metro opens – at last
• Long Island Railroad’s East Side Access opens
• New Incheon fleet design shown
• Foster + Partners wins competition to design new CPK airport in Poland 

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IARO Express, Issue 507 - 8th December 2022

• King Charles visits Luton Airport DART
• New business lead and director for Heathrow Express
• French short flight ban approved
• Work starts on Metro Manila Subway
• Eagle County rail line controversy continues

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IARO Express, Issue 506 - 1st December 2022

• News from Gatwick
• San Jose – single bore tunnel  design approved
• Fraport and Lufthansa establish “FraAlliance” Joint Venture
• Demand for more Metro feeder buses from Aluva to Kochi airport
• Ningbo airport hub design competition launched

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IARO Express, Issue 505 - 24th November 2022

• Manchester Airport Staff Travel Bulletin
• Old Oak Common area stations not funded
• Italian rail  infrastructure initiatives
• Rail link to Columbus?
• Zhengzhou airport line open

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IARO Express, Issue 504 - 17th November 2022

• East Midlands Airport rail terminal to be extended
• Spokane International Airport completes second phase of air-rail-road facility
• SWISS Air Rail expanding to Lucerne and Interlaken
• Rio to convert BRT to LRT
• Three new express routes from Haneda airport

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IARO Express, Issue 503 - 10th November 2022

• Elizabeth Line – nearly complete
• Luton DART delayed until 2023
• At last – Metro to Dulles
• Porto to have a high speed rail loop
• Al Ula tramway to connect World Heritage Sites and airport
• Bengaluru airport rail link – second time lucky?

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IARO Express, Issue 502 - 3rd November 2022

• Brussels – tram to airport by 2026
• Hangzhou airport metro opens
• Heathrow – Woking
• Heraklion tram plan revived
• Air-rail-road Mojave Inland Port planned

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IARO Express, Issue 501 - 27th October 2022

• Perth Airport Line opens
• MTR awarded a two-year extension for the Elizabeth line
• Delta expands air+rail programme
• Amsterdam - Brussels fleet to be renewed
• Lagos Airport link moves ahead
• Congratulations

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IARO Express, Issue 500 - 20th October 2022

• New trains ordered for Barcelona airport
• Changsha airport metro open
• Rail link to Kinshasa airport?
• High Desert Corridor line planned
• Heathrow Connect Class 360 EMUs re-purposed

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IARO Express, Issue 499 - 13th October 2022

• Melbourne Airport Rail preferred bidder selected 
• Heathrow Express – book through Uber app
• Mexico – Toluca operating concession awarded
• Aeroexpress service reduced at SVO
• Rail Baltica - second stage of Latvia mainline construction procurement announced 

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IARO Express, Issue 498 - 6th October 2022

• New Metro to LAX closer
• Doncaster Sheffield Airport to close after no ‘tangible proposals’
• Catalunya studies tram-train networks
• Bahrain metro progress
• Brazil: Fortaleza later this year, Natal in the longer term

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IARO Express, Issue 497 - 29th September 2022

• Brightline developments
• Dublin Airport may get a rail connection
• New tram link to Geneva airport
• Construction of Shanghai - Sujia inter-city line starts
• Baghdad light rail to serve airport 

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IARO Express, Issue 496 - 22nd September 2022

• Developments in Madrid
• HART begins trial running on part of the Honolulu light rail line
• Florida Coastal Link takes a step forward
• Noida airport terminal building construction to start
• Fuel by rail to Prestwick

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IARO Express, Issue 495 - 15th September 2022

• Air-river link
• Peak fares on tube and Elizabeth Line journeys to Heathrow
• Rail services to future Chennai airport?
• CDG – Picardy connection scaled down
• Disruption to Washington DC Metro to National Airport

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IARO Express, Issue 494 - 8th September 2022

• Flytoget to spread its wings?
• Heathrow publishes new Surface Access Strategy
• Elizabeth Line to start running trains between Heathrow and Abbey Wood
• Orlando Airport’s Terminal C
• Air rail intermodality with a difference

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IARO Express, Issue 493 - 1st September 2022

• California high speed line starter section set for completion
• Progress in Bucharest
• Management buy-out for Abellio UK
• Abidjan metro progress
• Muan rail link – date announced

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IARO Express, Issue 492 - 25th August 2022

• Perth’s Airport line to open in October
• Thameslink’s class 700 fleet
• Regionaltangente West to go ahead
• Brightline service to Orlando now to start next year
• Happy 75th, CTA!

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IARO Express, Issue 491 - 18th August 2022

• Venice Airport to get rail link
• The Ontario Airport tunnel
• Inverness Airport station
• New metro connection planned for Beijing Capital Airport
• Sydney’s new airport 

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IARO Express, Issue 490 - 11th August 2022

• KLM launches rail-air service with Thalys
• Rio to convert BRT to LRT
• Edinburgh – e-bus, tram, air!
• Brightline Announces the Sunshine Corridor
• Stockholm’s airports served by Finnish operator rather than German one

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IARO Express, Issue 489 - 4th August 2022

• California High-Speed Rail finalises plans for San Francisco - San Jose segment
• Casualties of the virus
• Heathrow in H1, 2022
• Hong Kong’s new automated people-mover
• This decade’s air-rail openings
• Kunming metro Line 5 opens with tunnel wall advertising

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IARO Express, Issue 488 - 28th July 2022

• Birmingham Interchange Station progress
• Brightline aims to carry holiday travellers to Orlando by Christmas
• French high speed line financing strategy
• New high speed rail services improve integration between rail and air
• Indore airport  line trains ordered

And…Remembering Cyril Bleasdale

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IARO Express, Issue 487 - 21st July 2022

• Air-Rail ticketing in Berlin
• Lyon to go paperless
• California’s Metrolink tests use of quake alerts to stop trains
• Metrolink extension to St Louis MidAmerica airport
• Manchester upgrade starts

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IARO Express, Issue 486 - 14th July 2022

• SNCF partners with SITA for better rail-air travel
• BART extension to San Jose airport moves forward
• Boston – ferry or train?
• Orlando – Tampa railway to receive grant
• HS2 near Manchester Airport simplified

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IARO Express, Issue 485 - 7th July 2022

• Paris Orly TGV connection
• Heavy rail link to Newcastle airport  back in the frame
• Chicago Access/Michigan East
• Easier access to JFK coming
• Emirates – home check-in for first class customers 

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IARO Express, Issue 484 - 30th June 2022

• Paris Orly TGV connection
• Heavy rail link to Newcastle airport  back in the frame
• Chicago Access/Michigan East
• Easier access to JFK coming
• Emirates – home check-in for first class customers 

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IARO Express, Issue 483 - 23rd June 2022

• Eurostar Group formed as a holding company for Eurostar and Thalys
• CDG Express on the move again
• San Diego – better transit link still under discussion
• South Shore Line work
• Daxing developments

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IARO Express, Issue 482 - 16th June 2022

• Progress in Montreal
• Tram-trains proposed for Tarragona and Reus airport 
• Bahrain Metro progress
• News from Guangzhou
• Air rail news with a difference!

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IARO Express, Issue 481 - 9th June 2022

• The Elizabeth Line – a rider experience
• SMART aims for big boost in ridership
• Auckland Airport plans new transit into its upgrade
• Linate metro extension plan
• Moscow’s smart card

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IARO Express, Issue 479 - 26th May 2022

• Orlando landmark
• Heathrow traffic growth prompts calls for rail link decisions
• Metrolink is the first US passenger rail system powered by renewable fuel
• Mactan-Cebu monorail
• DB partners with airline ticketing provider to improve intermodal travel

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IARO Express, Issue 479 - 26th May 2022

• French bee joins Train + Air
• Stansted Airport Station virtual tours
• Progress in Honolulu
• LAX people mover superstructure now complete
• More progress in the Philippines

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IARO Express, Issue 478 - 19th May 2022

• SWISS Air Rail
• Heathrow in Q1
• Olympics-related improvements at Burbank
• Chengdu’s air rail cargo connection
• Subic-Clark Railway

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IARO Express, Issue 477 - 12th May 2022

• Elizabeth Line progress
• Additional Sacramento Airport service to be evaluated
• Metro link planned to new Visakhapatnam Airport 
• Aeromovel to serve GRU Airport 
• Problems with Öresund contract

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IARO Express, Issue 476 - 5th May 2022

• Progress on CDG Express
• People-mover for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
• Heathrow’s A40 bus route – a clarification
• Bangkok’s Bang Na - Suvarnabhumi Airport LRT feasibility study completed
• Crenshaw/LAX line operating plan update

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IARO Express, Issue 475 - 28th April 2022

• KLM and Thalys continue developing their AirRail product
• Progress in San Diego
• SFO simplified
• The Thai three airports project
• Elizabeth Line “won’t start early enough”

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IARO Express, Issue 474 - 21st April 2022

• Work halts Boston Airport line trains until early May
• Eurostar:Thalys merger approved
• Agatha trains for Catania airport
• Heathrow Express – “best”!
• Construction of the Guangzhou HSL to start
• Audio Walk makes the wait before takeoff shorter for families

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IARO Express, Issue 473 - 14th April 2022

• Gatwick Express - strayed?
• Tel Aviv – orbital metro to serve airport
• New connections for Pearson?
• Marseille – Nice route modernisation signed off
• First sections of Pune metro inaugurated

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IARO Express, Issue 472 - 7th April 2022

• Delhi inter-airport line progress
• Wonsan – situation unclear
• M52 to Schiphol?
• Pedestrian bridge structure to LAX people mover station installed
• Scottish Transport Minister visits site of Inverness Airport station

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IARO Express, Issue 471 - 31st March 2022

• Heathrow Express’s latest trains
• Beijing – new metro provides for airport line interchange
• Faro airport railway funding application
• Amtrak may serve Miami airport
• Interesting idea for a rail link

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IARO Express, Issue 470 - 24th March 2022

• Gatwick Express returns
• New fleets for Scandinavia
• New plans for Fortaleza
• Friedrichshafen electrified
• LGA links to be discussed again

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IARO Express, Issue 469 - 17th March 2022

• Dulles metro to open in summer?
• Grand Paris Line 18 to Orly
• Frankfurt Terminal 1 – 50 years old
• Birmingham Railway Research Centre celebrates 50 years of innovation
• Tucumán to get air rail cargo connection

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IARO Express, Issue 468 - 10th March 2022

• Brightline completes Orlando Airport work
• New contracts for Western Sydney Airport line
• Groupe ADP unveils strategic roadmap to build a sustainable airport model by 2050
• Chandigarh – a second look?
• More trains for Heathrow T5 peoplemover
• Congratulations to the new Heathrow Express Commercial Strategy Lead

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IARO Express, Issue 466 - 24th February 2022

• Luton DART on test
• Helsinki long-distance link nearer
• Lufthansa Express Rail
• KLIA Aerotrains to be replaced
• Plans for Ardmore Multimodal Logistics Hub move ahead

And finally...

• “Southern” - or south of France?

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IARO Express - Issue 465 - 17th February 2022

• Testing starts in Madrid’s third cross-city tunnel
• Shenzhen – first phase of automated metro line 20 opens
• LAX Crenshaw Line – opening dates
• Progress in Tirana
• Heathrow launches 10-year sustainability strategy 

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IARO Express - Issue 464 - 10th February 2022

• News from São Paulo
• Shadow operator appointed for Paris’ driverless light rail lines
• Dakar – progress, but no airport connection yet
• Major segment of LAX people mover now complete
• Birmingham Airport’s HS2 connection

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IARO Express - Issue 463 - 3rd February 2022

• KLM sells Schiphol-Amsterdam train tickets
• Updated financial plan for Hudson Tunnel 
• California High Speed Rail reaches critical milestone
• Good progress with Inverness Airport station
• Auckland chooses underground light rail
• WISP

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IARO Express - Issue 462 - 27th January 2022

• Airport railway for Andorra
• New Orleans – possible airport shuttle?
• Manchester Airport and HS2
• CDG – Amiens TGV plans revived
• News from Nanning

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IARO Express - Issue 461 - 20th January 2022

• New line to Stuttgart airport opens
• O’Hare Transit re-opens
• Work in progress on Manchester tangle
• Eurostar:Thalys merger to go ahead
• Dhaka airport metro funded

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IARO Express - Issue 460 - 13th January 2022

• Alstom trains for Transdev’s Nice service
• Tunnel boring machines for Metrolinx have arrived in Canada
• Ivanpah revived?
• Melbourne – work to start this year
• Links to airports in Northern Ireland
  ...And finally: Marking IARO Express Issue 460

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IARO Express - Issue 459 - 6th January 2022

• Lublin Airport link closed
• Luton Express fleet
• Northern’s new trains improve service
• Auckland – light rail to airport recommended
• Long-discussed San Diego Airport Trolley extension sees progress 
• The IARO Website

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IARO Express - Issue 458 - 15th December 2021

• New Salt Lake City Airport station opened in October
• Progress on Silver Line to Dulles
• Work to start on Catania airport link
• Next phase of upgrades to Gatwick airport start – with Gatwick Express
• Da Nang airport – metro planned

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IARO Express - Issue 457 - 9th December 2021

• Train + Air extended
• Luton Airport express trains settling in
• Buffalo – buses or light rail?
• Tenders invited for Melbourne airport station package
• Part of Turin link re-purposed

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IARO Express - Issue 456 - 2nd December 2021

• Happy Birthday, Newcastle!
• Grand Paris Express Line 18 to Orly - track contract awarded
• Manchester service - funding issues
• Western Sydney Airport metro line shortlist
• Airport rail station usage Great Britain 2020/21

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IARO Express - Issue 455 - 25th November 2021

• Refurbished Thalys trains
• Mobile ticketing launched on Osaka Monorail 
• Dulles Metro reaches major milestone
• Crosstown West Extension in Toronto
• Testing begins on Istanbul airport metro

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IARO Express - Issue 454 - 18th November 2021

• Brussels airport tram agreed
• TransPennine Express to test a battery hybrid train
• Ship canal challenge as Istanbul extends metro line
• UP Express becomes first in Canada to allow riders to use debit cards to 'tap-on'
• Shenzhen’s automated people mover

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IARO Express - Issue 452 - 4th November 2021

• Work on new Inverness Airport station starts
• Malta planning airport light rail
• Ho Chi Minh City – airport line planned
• Ottawa link funded
• Beijing Capital’s  automated people mover upgraded

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IARO Express - Issue 451 - 28th October 2021

• Keolis-MHI takes over Dubai metro and tram operations
• Rail link to LaGuardia Airport put on hold
• SWISS plus AirPortr in Geneva
• Lima Airport Metro progress
• Birmingham University School of Engineering – official opening and tour of research facilities

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IARO Express - Issue 450 - 21st October 2021

• Schiphol among Dutch stations most affected by Covid
• Heathrow Express’s tranquil train
• Colombo – progress?
• Better service to Portland
• Lounges introduced at Chinese high-speed railway stations

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IARO Express - Issue 449 - 14th October 2021

• Heathrow Express in Quarter 1, 2021/22
• More trams for Toulouse
• GMR Group to invest in metro rail link project to Hyderabad Airport
• Denver recognised!
• Takeuber?

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IARO Express - Issue 448 - 7th October 2021

• Inter-terminal autonomous light rail at Kunming
• Another light rail connection for Düsseldorf?
• Emirates’ new baggage services at Dubai
• Sepulveda corridor projects move ahead
• Stansted’s rail connections cited by new start-up

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IARO Express - Issue 447 - 30th September 2021

• Trondheim airport railway to be electrified
• Marseille-Nice concession to Transdev
• Perth Airport Link to open next year
• SEPTA wayfinding to be improved
• South Shore Line - new bids requested

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IARO Express - Issue 446 - 23rd September 2021

• Munich Airport rail tunnel extension completed
• Schiphol sees first Dutch open-access train service
• Austin’s Project Connect light-rail project starting
• Improved service to Incheon under S. Korea’s $100 bill 10-year rail plan
• New automated train developed for Zhengzhou airport

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IARO Express - Issue 445 - 16th September 2021

• Mexico City and its airports
• Birmingham International HS2 station bidders
• Suvarnabhumi light rail link re-surfaces
• New Paris operating contract
• Commercial rivalries, politics and trains to Eagle County Airport

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IARO Express - Issue 444 - 9th September 2021

• HSL-Zuid – the saga continues
• Dallas - Silver Line revenue service to start 2024
• Much activity in Florida
• Plans for Muscat airport metro revived
• Istanbul canal may impact airport rail links

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IARO Express - Issue 443 - 2nd September 2021

• Excellent Austrian innovations!
• Fraport’s people-movers
• Construction starts on Los Angeles airport interchange
• Thomson East Coast Line
• Crossrail – “full completion in May 2023”

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IARO Express - Issue 442 - 26th August 2021

• Chengdu’s new airport to get high speed rail
• Indianapolis Airport to get new Amtrak station?
• Lugano Airport tram-train cut-off tunnel approved
• Santiago (Dominica) – rail link plans revived
• Airport railways today: how are the services?

…And another milestone is now reached: IARO’s 300th air-rail link

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IARO Express - Issue 441 - 19th August 2021

• Bangkok: New line opens to Don Muang
• Qingdao Jiaodong Airport starts operations
• Thalys + Delta Air+Rail
• Piccadilly Line to go driverless?
• Toronto Crosstown subway funding announced

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IARO Express - Issue 440 - 12th August 2021

In this Week’s Issue:

• Air-rail complementarity in France
• Air-rail integration in China
• easyJet’s new air-rail connection service
• Luton DART report denied
• Burbank Airport railway to be enhanced

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IARO Express - Issue 439 - 5th August 2021

In this Week’s Issue:

• Heathrow H1 results
• Air-rail cargo intermodality at Malpensa
• Three airports on Atlanta-Charlotte high-speed rail line
• Dubai Red Line reaches Expo 2020
• An interesting fare option

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IARO Express - Issue 437 - 22nd July 2021

In this Week’s Issue:

• Rail Baltica construction officially starts at RÄ«ga International Airport
• More on new Piccadilly line trains
• Trains for Shenzhen Line 20
• SNC-Lavalin appointed Sydney airport line delivery partner
• Caltrain electrification delay
• Minister for Transport opens new rail research building at the University of Birmingham

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IARO Express - Issue 436 - 15th July 2021

• Chengdu’s new airport opens
• Thai Three Airports line progress
• Glatttal line to be extended
• Amtrak to T.F.Green?
• HERT MRT to Stansted
  
  And Also - Congratulations to Manchester

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IARO Express - Issue 435 - 8th July 2021

In this Week’s Issue:

• Xiamen’s future airport connections
• Masterplan for Central Poland Airport
• New airport for Novi Sad
• Proposed North Atlantic Rail Corporation to connect five US airports
• The Manchester tangle
• Awards for Heathrow Express

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IARO Express - Issue 434 - 1st July 2021

• Plans for high speed service to Madrid Barajas airport revived
• Heathrow western access rail link ‘set to be mothballed’
• Kochi airport’s regional rail link
• Michigan City street running ends
• New Blue Line trains for Chicago

 SPECIAL REPORT
Sustainable Transport: A green post-pandemic recovery of Finland’s aviation

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IARO Express - Issue 433 - 24th June 2021

• Oslo suburban service concession to continue
• Brightline's Orlando-to-South Florida line more than 50% complete
• Old trains, new uses
• Rail-air link to Paris Orly
• Rail link to Lagos airport

Plus – Innovation: New Technology at Fraport

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IARO Express - Issue 432 - 17th June 2021

• Flytoget’s new trains start to enter service
• Airport access recognised in Budapest railway strategy
• Dhaka airport metro
• Texas backs Austin Metro
• Planning consent received for Inverness Airport station

Sustainable Transport: HybridFLEX on test in Derbyshire

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IARO Express - Issue 431 - 10th June 2021

• Dulles link progress
• Arriva planning night trains to Schiphol
• Heathrow Express in 2020/21
• First Lugano tram-train delivered
• Taiyuan airport line planned

Sustainable Transport: Hydrogen-fuelled train to be showcased at COP26

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IARO Express - Issue 430 - 3rd June 2021

• Bromma airport tram opens
• New metro planned for Shanghai Pudong
• Honolulu airport line next summer?
• Metro to Schiphol moves forward
• Penzance Heliport – with a rail link

And in addition…
Etihad launches at-home baggage check-in service – and more!

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IARO Express - Issue 429 - 27th May 2021

• New trains at Stansted
• Linz to be linked better
• Los Angeles Airport Metro Connector
• First Chinese driverless tram at Kunming airport
• Lagos airport connection launched

...And finally: Manchester light rail study shows covid transmission limited  

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IARO Express - Issue 428 - 20th May 2021

• Finland - Estonia tunnel now to link two airports
• Dart Progress at Luton
• Amritsar – possible high speed link
• Oklahoma City – potential rail link
• Newark code-share ends

...And: Sustainability - Photovoltaic pavement in Barcelona  

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IARO Express - Issue 427 - 13th May 2021

• Heathrow’s Q1 results
• Bengaluru airport metro approved
• Guiyang airport metro open
• Prague to get main-line link
• Four bids to replace Newark Airtrain

...And: Sustainability - Long Island Rail Road to test feasibility of electric trains on diesel branches

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IARO Express - Issue 426 - 6th May 2021

• Hong Kong’s Octopus Card to launch payment card for mainland China
• Silver Line access to Dallas/Fort Worth airport agreed
• New TGV station for Nice Côte d’Azur airport
• Light rail to Coolangatta
• Gatwick Express  loading information in use

...And: Sustainability - Airport transport in Glasgow

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IARO Express - Issue 425 - 29th April 2021

• RER B replacement contract problems resolved
• Heathrow Southern Rail Link
• High speed rail close to Ontario
• São Paulo metro operator CCR to manage Congonhas Airport extension
• Consortium wins Shenzhen airport transportation hub competition

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IARO Express - Issue 424 - 22nd April 2021

• Fresh start for Auckland LRT plans
• Canada update
• London City Airport masterplan
• Düsseldorf contracts awarded
• Bordeaux ready to start

Sustainable Transport: “Passenger power”

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IARO Express - Issue 423 - 15th April 2021

• Dubai Metro to get new operator
• Tram to Brussels airport by 2026
• “Reduction of German domestic flights requires rail investment”
• Bristol Airport link supported
• Controversial land deal near SFO to affect high speed rail 

Plus - Sustainable Transport: Alternative traction fuels

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IARO Express - Issue 422 - 8th April 2021

• Catania – one link good, two links better
• Bangkok’s new airport railway
• Karachi Airport Railway opens
• New Piccadilly Line trains
• Dulles link to open in July
• And finally: “Tram alert”

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IARO Express - Issue 421 - 1st April 2021

• Contract signed for construction of Rail Baltica station at Riga Airport 
• Changes coming at London Luton Airport
• Contract awarded for Clark - Malolos project
• Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project moves ahead
• Two seats good, one seat better
• Suburban trains to Bucharest Airport – a clarification

Sustainable Airport Surface Access news
UK Prime Minister launches £3 billion bus initiative

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IARO Express - Issue 420 - 25th March 2021

• Bahrain Airport metro link re-surfaces
• Lufthansa Express rail expands further
• High speed train access to Barajas coming?
• London Plan backs Heathrow rail links
• LaGuardia Airtrain moves ahead

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IARO Express - Issue 419 - 18th March 2021

• Progress in Istanbul
• Alexandria airport link back on track
• Grand Est seeks Strasbourg airport line concessionaire 
• Birmingham people mover plans approved
• Brightline extension under discussion

Sustainability:
Retired wind turbine blades to reinforce concrete on HS2 

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IARO Express - Issue 418 - 11th March 2021

• Stuttgart 21 makes progress
• Heathrow in 2020
• Toronto electrification moves ahead
• New rail-connected cargo airport for Gujarat
• Palma airport tram approved
• SUSTAINABLE SURFACE ACCESS: München’s CO₂ neutral buses

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IARO Express - Issue 417 - 4th March 2021

• New trains for Munich Airport’s Regensburg service
• Rail connections to Bengalaru International Airport
• Heathrow Express most punctual railway in Great Britain
• Dallas – new loan for Silver Line
• Dubai’s Route 2020 Line
• And finally…“Intermodality”? or “Multimodality”?

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IARO Express - Issue 416 - 25th February 2021

• Improved funding for US airport rail connections
• Paddington’s Elizabeth line station enters final commissioning phase
• China Southern’s home delivery service
• KLM promotes train for up to 700 kilometres 
• Tiranë airport rail link moves ahead

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IARO Express - Issue 415 - 18th February 2021

• Daxing line extended
• Newark Airtrain system to be replaced
• Plans for Rome move ahead
• Bromma link delayed
• Heathrow Express fleet replaced

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IARO Express - Issue 414 - 11th February 2021

• Suburban trains to Bucharest Airport
• Qingdao opens metro lines to two airports
• Canterbury to Gatwick and Reading?
• First airport metro cars arrive in Istanbul
• Sound dampers

And a response to last week’s IARO Express “Extra” Report on Manchester

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IARO Express - Issue 413 - 4th February 2021

• Work restarts on CDG Express
• Tour of Farringdon Crossrail Station
• Nairobi airport connections
• MidAmerica St Louis Airport light rail
• Chengdu’s second airport to open in June?
• National Express

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IARO Express - Issue 412 - 28th January 2021

• News from Lyon
• Cluj-Napoca studies transport options 
• Two lines to Hangzhou Airport open
• Sepulveda Corridor to Los Angeles
• Inverness Airport station progress

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IARO Express - Issue 411 - 21st January 2021

• Aalborg Airport link opened in December
• New trains for Heathrow’s Piccadilly Line
• Penang link moves ahead
• North Korea’s second airport railway
• Siemens to equip Ottawa's Trillium Line South Extension
• MTR’s photovoltaic panels on trains

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IARO Express - Issue 410 - 14th January 2021

• Chengdu openings
• Kazan
• News from Heathrow
• Rail Needs Assessment
• Route selected for Prague airport rail connection
• Disney and Brightline reach agreement to build Disney station

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IARO Express - Issue 409 - 7th January 2021

• Charlotte: light rail back?
• Berlin Terminal 5 to close in March 2021?
• Phuket’s light rail line delayed until 2026
• Riyadh Metro progress
• Manchester congestion

- Plus: Update on the IARO Airport Railways of the World database

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IARO Express - Issue 408 - 17th December 2020

• Heathrow Express class 387s on test
• 160 km/h trainsets for Guangzhou airport route
• Ottawa Airport station – a casualty of coronavirus?
• Kenya launches commuter rail system
• The Polish government approves the first stages of its mega hub

- SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT: Aberdeen’s hydrogen powered buses

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IARO Express - Issue 407 - 10th December 2020

• GB station usage report 2019/20
• Ljubljana Airport link planned
• Seattle Airport’s Link light-rail runs on clean energy
• New Nairobi Airport link to start next year
• Gatwick Express suspended

- Special Report: New railway research centre at the University of Birmingham completed

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IARO Express - Issue 406 - 3rd December 2020

• Trondheim airport line to be electrified
• Bologna’s Marconi Express opens
• Air-rail ticketing through Hongqiao airport
• Light rail for Charlotte
• Heathrow temporarily suspends Free Travel Zone
   
• Sustainable Transport: Hydrogen fuel cell train to be developed with EU funding

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IARO Express - Issue 405 - 26th November 2020

• Melbourne Airport to get its city rail link – at last
• Brightline: progress in Florida
• More links for Copenhagen airport
• Lucknow airport to get a second metro link
• East Midlands Airport’s proposed connections
• Sustainable Transport: Solar power

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IARO Express - Issue 404 - 19th November 2020

• Baghdad airport metro
• Shannon link revived
• DB awarded Munich operating contract
• Direct services between Birmingham Airport and York and Newcastle
• Work starts on tunnel between Technoparc and Montréal-Trudeau airport

Sustainable Transport:
More on Hydrogen power

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IARO Express - Issue 403 - 12th November 2020

• Austrian AIRail service extended
• BER airport and its rail links
• Luton Airport Express to start in May?
• Austin’s Project Connect approved by voters
• Wuxi airport metro open

Sustainable Transport:
Birmingham University helps develop hydrogen powered train

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IARO Express - Issue 402 - 5th November 2020

• Doncaster Sheffield Airport rail link plan dropped
• An extension to Shanghai’s maglev?
• Zurich Airport to Munich in under four hours
• Brightline West
• One new link to Madrid Barajas - not two!

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IARO Express - Issue 401 - 29th October 2020

• Austrian Railways Masterplan links Vienna Airport to the east
• CAA mode share data
• Antelope Valley capacity improvements programme helps Burbank
• First phase of line to Chengdu’s future airport opens
• Work to restart on São Paulo’s Congonhas line

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IARO Express - Issue 400 - 22nd October 2020

• Heathrow Western Rail Access delayed
• More integrated ticketing in China
• Thailand’s airport projects delayed by Covid-19
• The riddle of Lamezia Terme
• Sacramento extension moves ahead
• …and Sustainable Airport Access: Electric coaches for Scotland

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IARO Express - Issue 399 - 15th October 2020

• Innovative system for Brightline’s Orlando extension
• Kunming Metro airport line extended into city
• Berlin studies U-Bahn airport extensions
• BucureÈ™ti airport rail link progress
• University of Birmingham selected as preferred bidder to work with NCATI

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IARO Express - Issue 398 - 8th October 2020

• Berlin Brandenburg to open on 25 October 2020
• Changsha airport maglev reaches 160km/h
• Sonoma airport railway
• Monterrey (Mexico) commuter rail to serve airport
• Long-term plan for East Midlands Airport 

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IARO Express - Issue 397 - 1st October 2020

• Two EU-funded projects in Milan
• Honolulu – further delays
• Bengalaru airport connection – up in the air?
• Great Western Railway takes delivery of trimode electro-diesel multiple-unit
• Terrorist attacks on passenger railways

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IARO Express - Issue 396 - 24th September 2020

• Île-de-France to accelerate competitive tendering in Paris
• Manila Clark contract awarded
• SNC-Lavalin awarded consultancy contract for Tung Chung Line Extension
• Five multi-modal Area Studies for South East England
• Toronto Pearson now believes in transit
• Sustainable Airport Access: Munich’s bio-methane bus

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IARO Express - Issue 395 - 17th September 2020

•       Thessaloniki Airport Metro Extension
•       Glasgow – progress
•       Congonhas completion
•       Newark Airport City
•       Tunnelling completed for Perth air-rail link

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IARO Express - Issue 394 - 10th September 2020

• What are Airport Expresses doing now?
• DART cost increases add to Luton’s problems
• Sheremetyevo Airport bus + metro
• Ontario issues RFP for Eglinton Crosstown extension tunnels
• New section of Cairo metro opens

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IARO Express - Issue 393 - 3rd September 2020

• Better connectivity in the Pearl River Delta
• Progress in Senegal
• BWI link to extend further south?
• Tallinn to expand tram network
• Links to Liverpool airport under study

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IARO Express - Issue 392 - 27th August 2020

• Boyolali airport train starts
• Zürich - Geneva Flugzug introduced
• Etihad expands air-rail partnership with AccesRail
• LaGuardia Airport link gets initial approval from FAA
• HS2 Ltd agrees partnership with British universities

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IARO Express - Issue 391 - 20th August 2020

• Australia: Gold Coast airport light rail study funded
• Happy 25^th, Green Line
• Atlanta-Charlotte rail connection
• Teesside Airport station
• Berlin S-Bahn tenders
• …and finally – a longer read: MTR’s recent experiences and future plans

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IARO Express - Issue 390 - 13th August 2020

• Developments in Frankfurt
• Sydney’s airport line to be upgraded
• CRISI grant awarded to rail project near Albuquerque airport
• São Paulo Congonhas monorail trains and systems contract signed
• IARO Express 383 report on Manchester

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IARO Express - Issue 389 - 6th August 2020

• Better public transport for Genoa Airport
• New trains for English links
• Austin Airport connection recommended
• Kuwait link planned
• New Moroccan link

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IARO Express - Issue 388 - 30th July 2020

• Lufthansa Express Rail
• Two connections for Venice?
• Bhogapuram airport to have metro link
• ZEMUs to Burbank?
• New trains for the Piccadilly Line

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IARO Express - Issue 387 - 23rd July 2020

• Plans for Bangalore (Bengalaru)
• Kennedy Space Center railroad back in operation
• Swedish Railways subsidiary begins concession in northern Norway
• Porto airport line tests contactless
• University of Birmingham secures new funding for green train development

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IARO Express - Issue 386 - 16th July 2020

• Dubai Red Line extension
• Ringtrambus inaugurated
• CaHSR Burbank - Los Angeles
• Luton Airport Parkway lift renewal
• Heathrow’s regulatory accounts.

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IARO Express - Issue 385 - 9th July 2020

• AIRail extended to Salzburg
• Auckland airport light rail plans dropped
• More trains for Canada Line
• NRPS Spring 2020
• Class 170 trains to get new emissions technology

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IARO Express - Issue 384 - 2nd July 2020

• MTR appointment
• Gautrain celebrates 10 years
• Environmental solutions for Calgary
• Good news for Mount Fuji
• Riga airport link progress
• A “tube-style” network for the West Midlands
• VLR – Very Light Rail

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IARO Express - Issue 383 - 25th June 2020

• BART: priority airport screening for transit passengers
• News from Turkey
• Tram-train for Frankfurt
• Light rail for Canberra airport
• Infrastructure issues and Manchester airport services

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IARO Express - Issue 382 - 18th June 2020

• Palermo link takes shape
• High rail mode share at Southend
• Rail link for Kochi airport
• Heathrow Express Class 387 testing
• San Jose update and DMV 

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IARO Express - Issue 381 - 11th June 2020

• Crossrail trains cleared for use at Heathrow
• CARS good for Gatwick
• Ecuador’s first airport rail link
• Grand Paris line 18
• RDU bypassed 

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IARO Express - Issue 380 - 4th June 2020

• More rail links to Chinese airports
• Manchester-Boston link moves forward
• Consulting contract for Tirana airport link
• Birmingham Airport HS2 station
• Air France-KLM considers trains as an alternative to short-haul flights

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IARO Express - Issue 379 - 28th May 2020

• Singapore T5
• Shenzhen
• Catania
• Houston - Hobby
• Hobby
• Gatwick upgrade
• People movements

Sustainability

• Rail decarbonisation

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IARO Express - Issue 378 - 21st May 2020

• GB airport station usage data
• Future plans for Schiphol
• UP Express ridership
• Western Sydney Airport
• Metro to Vnukovo
   
• Sustainable Airport Access…Landside driverless electric shuttles at Austin

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IARO Express - Issue 377 - 14th May 2020

• Boston’s Blue Line
• LAX’s Crenshaw Line
• Thalys and Eurostar to merge
• Fraport’s recovery plan
• Xi’an’s airport railway
• More trains for Stansted
• And a partial report on light rail to airports

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IARO Express - Issue 376 - 7th May 2020

• Coronavirus recovery – the MTR Hong Kong experience
• One way of doing it!
• Connections to Frankfurt’s Terminal 3
• Heathrow Q1 results
• Melbourne – medium capacity transit?

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IARO Express - Issue 375 - 30th April 2020

• Change coming in Lyon?
• Caltrain plans
• Chengdu airport express metro trains delivered
• Hamilton – new metro and international gateway
• Heathrow Express finances (2018/19)

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IARO Express - Issue 374 - 23rd April 2020

• Tung Chung extension approved
• Ulsan airport tram
• Amtrak's Hiawatha line to get new trains 
• Construction work ready to begin at Birmingham Airport’s HS2 station 
• Naples – now 2022?

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IARO Express - Issue 373 - 16th April 2020

• Coronavirus impact update
• Airport Express Hong Kong shuttle bus information
• Grant for Burbank Airport station works…
• …and Environmental Impact Report nearly ready
• New link between Krakow airport and the north?
• Luton Airport train service plans
• Fastest airport train?

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IARO Express - Issue 372 - 9th April 2020

• 387s on Heathrow Express - a major step forward  
• Panama Metro Line 2 airport extension approved 
• Rail access to Ontario airport – a tangled web
• Schiphol Sustainability
• Coronavirus impact update
• Alternative Sustainable Airport Surface Access

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IARO Express - Issue 371 - 2nd April 2020

• Coronavirus impact on air-rail links
• Bradley Airport link closer
• Gatwick station upgrade
• Transdev sells Swedish Flygbussarna Airport Coaches to Norwegian railways
• SPECIAL REPORT: RAIL RESEARCH

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IARO Express - Issue 370 - 26th March 2020

• Coronavirus: Further reactions and updates
• An integrated rail plan for the North and Midlands 
• Norway’s planned tendering programme
• Second rail connection for Casablanca Airport
• Portland airport station to close during concourse expansion

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IARO Express - Issue 369 - 19th March 2020

• Coronavirus report
• The impact of a large fare increase
• Heathrow Express punctuality – excellent!
• South Shore Line improvements to go ahead
• Stuttgart Tram U6 to the airport
• Jakarta-Bandung Fast Train project on schedule for 2021 completion

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IARO Express - Issue 368 - 12th March 2020

• Bologna Airport People Mover 
• Heathrow Express’s new fleet
• Heathrow – fuel by rail
• Progress in Austin
• Nice idea - from Los Angeles…and Boston

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IARO Express - Issue 367 - 5th March 2020

• Bergen to test autonomous light rail
• Bradley Airport – station coming?
• Boston - commuter-rail electrification
• Montréal Trudeau metro link
• Train to Plane Saver 

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IARO Express - Issue 366 - 27th February 2020

• LaGuardia and Newark update
• Guangzhou - high speed metro line to airport
• Île-de-France to accelerate competitive tendering
• Qatar Airways code-share with Deutsche Bahn
• Premium intercity bus lines launching new airport-oriented services

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IARO Express - Issue 365 - 20th February 2020

• EuroAirport rail connection
• SMART extends south
• Phuket Light Rail project 
• Multimodal tickets
• The world’s oldest airport railway?

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IARO Express - Issue 364 - 13th February 2020

• Bordeaux airport access improvements
• News from Brightline 
• Sustainability controversy over Leeds Bradford Airport expansion
• Tracklaying begins on New Istanbul Airport Line
• Bengalaru airport rail connections

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IARO Express - Issue 363 - 6th February 2020

• UK National Rail Passenger Survey Autumn 2019
• Nice Line 3 open
• “Strengthening Cooperation on Standards for Intermodal Travel”
• First leg of Honolulu light rail network could be open by October
• Greater Toronto Airports Authority part-funds Metrolinx extension

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IARO Express - Issue 362 - 30th January 2020

• TexRail records 500,000 riders in first year
• Kyiv airport route uses Ukrainian DMUs
• Guangzhou linked to Shenzhen airport
• Dutch Railways to introduce the Airport Sprinter to Schiphol
• Birmingham Airport and Midlands Connect sign agreement

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IARO Express - Issue 361 - 23rd January 2020

• Southern access to Heathrow
• California’s Ontario Airport offers free Lyft rides from train to plane
• Tel Aviv – Jerusalem electric service launched
• Abidjan metro contact awarded
• KLM intercity buses

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IARO Express - Issue 360 - 16th January 2020

• Improved connectivity for London Stansted
• Hohhot airport now on the metro
• Tunnel under Burbank Airport planned for California HSR
• New Berlin airport rail links to open in October 2020
• Doha airport metro completed
• And finally…

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IARO Express - Issue 359 - 9th January 2020

• Daxing opens
• Renovated BWI Airport Station opens
• New Istanbul Airport
• Dhaka Airport metro progress
• Birmingham rail experts partner with India’s transport leaders for high-tech future

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IARO Express - Issue 358 - 19th December 2019

• Jeddah airport station open
• Consultation on access to Washington DC airports
• Moscow Central Diameters lines open 
• Heathrow Express: Current status
• Thameslink going automatic

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IARO Express - Issue 357 - 12th December 2019

• Zürich to operate new Delhi airport
• Free bus and train rides for passengers flying into LAX during Thanksgiving week
• Tiranë airport rail link tenders invited 
• TfL Rail to operate services to Reading from 15 December
• Passenger rail performance in Great Britain 2019/20 Q2 statistical release

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IARO Express - Issue 356 - 5th December 2019

• Stansted Express ATVMs for Singapore
• LA Metro seeks contractor to develop Sepulveda Transit Corridor project
• Helsinki Airport expansion
• Future of Gautrain
• Luton’s bridge successfully installed

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IARO Express - Issue 355 - 28th November 2019

• LAX completes first foundation work for automated people mover 
• Lufthansa expands Air-Rail connections
• Vietnam update
• Airports renamed
• Delhi Metro introduces check-in for Air Asia, Spicejet and Go Air

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IARO Express - Issue 354 - 21st November 2019

• ANA to offer domestic air pass with multiple flights and unlimited accommodation
• “We want an airport train, but it has to be done right”
• Schiphol to get more frequent trains
• Stuttgart airport rail connection contract awarded
• Delta Air Lines may pull out of Alitalia bidding

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IARO Express - Issue 353 - 14th November 2019

• SWISS and SBB conclude strategic partnership
• New Zhanjiang Airport to have rail and metro connections
• Mall of America station renovated
• Heathrow Express to use single platform at Paddington
• Security and the Chennai Metro

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IARO Express - Issue 352 - 7th November 2019

• Breakthrough: Testing starts on Crenshaw/LAX Line
• Thai 3-airport high speed rail link update
• Virgin Trains USA – further Florida extension
• Aviation is stimulating the development of the Polish railway network
• United to offer premium baggage delivery service

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IARO Express - Issue 350 - 24th October 2019

• Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline Autumn 2019 Schemes Update
• Dhaka airport metro moves ahead
• Los Angeles’ Blue Line reopens – as the A Line
• Changes coming to Toronto’s UP Express
• Melbourne Airport Rail Link – the debate continues
• And, by way of marking IARO Express Issue 350…

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IARO Express - Issue 349 - 17th October 2019

• Auckland - light rail to airport?
• SWISS expands “Flugzug” service?
• San Diego link moves forward
• LAX/Aviation station
• Another new airport proposal for Manila

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IARO Express - Issue 348 - 10th October 2019

• Dulles Metro to open mid-2020
• Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion high speed line moves forward
• Aeroexpress agreement with St Petersburg Government
• Urban mobility trends in the US
• Green Speed = Eurostar + Thalys
• Sacramento clarification
• Sacramento airport connection?

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IARO Express - Issue 347 - 3rd October 2019

• Réunion tram project revived
• Sacramento airport connection?
• Katowice airport rail link part-funded
• Rails to planes in Canada - part 5
• New light rail link proposed for Heathrow

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IARO Express - Issue 346 - 26th September 2019

• Airport rail link for Nizhny Novgorod
• Preparations continue for Luton’s DART
• “Rails to planes” in Canada - part 4
• Consultation begins for new Polish airport
• Lyon-Saint Exupéry voted best airport

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IARO Express - Issue 345 - 19th September 2019

• Melbourne – cut-price rail link criticised
• “Fly Responsibly”
• Celebrating 8 years of Heathrow Pods
• “Rails to planes” in Canada - Part 3
• Aeroexpress Sheremetyevo extended

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IARO Express - Issue 344 - 12th September 2019

• “Rails to planes” in Canada - part 2
• Vnukovo to be on the Moscow Metro
• New trains for East Midlands franchise
• Catania - trains to the airport
• JR East to build three new lines to Haneda airport

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IARO Express - Issue 343 - 5th September 2019

• “Rails to Planes in Canada”: Part 1 - Vancouver
• Moscow Sheremetyevo airport rail link expansion
• New connections for Doncaster Sheffield Airport
• Better connection for Graz
• Mumbai metro Line 3 progress

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IARO Express - Issue 342 - 29th August 2019

• UK mode share statistics
• US West Coast high speed service update
• Zürich light rail to be extended
• Two metro lines to connect Noida Jewar airport
• Update on Canberra

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IARO Express - Issue 341 - 22nd August 2019

• Luton Airport: train improvements coming with new franchise
• New line for Helsinki
• Sepulveda Transit Corridor to serve Los Angeles International Airport
• Fuzhou Airport lines approved
• Jaipur update

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IARO Express - Issue 340 - 15th August 2019

• Xi'an airport metro
• Burbank Airport – half hourly service on the Antelope Valley Line recommended
• Heathrow’s rail profit
• Munich – Salzburg service closer
• Alstom to supply CDG Express trains

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IARO Express - Issue 339 - 8th August 2019

• REM station construction begins at Montréal airport
• First train delivered for Linate Airport metro
• Glasgow Connectivity Commission calls for new rail network
• Shanghai inter-airport express metro
• Shenzhen: Request for information
• More Madrid – Barcelona competition

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IARO Express - Issue 338 - 1st August 2019

• Gatwick Airport station upgrade
• Progress in Perth
• Bucharest Coandă airport rail link
• More trains to Milwaukee airport?
• South Shore double-track project moves forward 

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IARO Express - Issue 337 - 25th July 2019

• MAG-nificent
• New Central Poland airport - rail freight link?
• Penang LRT project approved
• Dulles link – next July?
• New buses for BWI

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IARO Express - Issue 336 - 18th July 2019

• London Luton’s transit system
• Harstad-Narvik airport line probably not viable
• Improvements at San Diego airport
• A different rail link?
• First test run for train on line to Beijing's new Daxing airport

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IARO Express - Issue 335 - 11th July 2019

• San Francisco - improvements coming
• São Paulo airport EMU revealed 
• GB Passenger rail complaints
• Swedish company wins Trondheim airport rail franchise
• Metro to Vnukovo

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IARO Express - Issue 334 - 3rd July 2019

• Spring 2019 UK Rail Passenger Survey
• Port Authority Capital Plan revisions affect airports
• Brussels – tram? bus? trambus?
• Adelaide Airport to city light rail a ‘must do’
• Cottonbelt now Silver

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IARO Express - Issue 333 - 27th June 2019

• 24/7 air-rail services: what do you think?
• Manchester correction
• Live real time train times on Gatwick Airport’s website
• Krasnodar plans airport tram
• Rail access to Washington DC’s airports to be improved
• Singapore 2040 transport master plan

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IARO Express - Issue 332 - 20th June 2019

• Rail link to Manila Clark funded
• Toronto transit expansion
• New Terminal for Berlin Brandenburg
• Plan to link HS2 line with new northern rail scheme improves airport connection
• News from São Paulo

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IARO Express - Issue 331 - 13th June 2019

• Beijing Daxing Airport prepares for opening
• Work to start on Split Airport rail link
• LaGuardia AirTrain connection
• Alliance’s Southampton plans rejected
• Virgin Trains USA – on to Orlando

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IARO Express - Issue 330 - 6th June 2019

• CDG Express postponed
• Thai government backs three airports rail link
• Wellington airport link – in 10-15 years time?
• Vancouver airport access

 

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IARO Express - Issue 329 - 30th May 2019

• Heathrow Express’s new trains
• Denver’s Airport Line has carried 20 million riders
• San Marcos Regional
• Progress in Manila
• SJ to run Öresundståg

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IARO Express - Issue 328 - 23rd May 2019

• Progress on Luton’s DART
• Rail Baltica design contract awarded
• Montréal integration under discussion
• Nagpur metro inaugurated
• Two train routes will connect Bandung Kertajati Airport

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IARO Express - Issue 327 - 16th May 2019

• Update from Nice
• Doha opens first part of its metro
• Alger Airport rail link open
• Portland (Oregon) – double tracking and more trains to Hillsboro
• Consultancy contract awarded for Bogota RegioTram project

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IARO Express - Issue 326 - 9th May 2019

• Paris Orly: single terminal - and multi-modal station
• Gdynia: Warsaw airport service in 2023
• China and Thailand: two aerotropolises cooperate
• Trinity Rail Express connection to Dallas-Fort Worth rebranded
• Afghanistan approves airport section of Khaf – Herat railway

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IARO Express - Issue 325 - 2nd May 2019

• Hong Kong – more ferry links planned
• Lucknow airport rail opened by video link
• Hartford Bradley International Airport – new ground transportation centre
• Amsterdam: city stations to expand - and Zuid to become city’s main station
• Abellio wins East Midlands franchise

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IARO Express - Issue 324 - 25th April 2019

• KLIA Ekspres update
• Light rail to Houston Hobby studied
• News from San Francisco
• Planned high speed railway to connect two Russian airports
• Plans for Tegel

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IARO Express - Issue 323 - 18th April 2019

• Orlando – an update
• Sydney’s second airport renamed and on its way?
• Orly TBM to start next month
• Thailand develops LRT
• University of Birmingham in partnership agreement with Transport Systems Catapult

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IARO Express - Issue 322 - 11th April 2019

• Dubai metro operating contract extended
• New metro to Suvarnabhumi?
• Rail Baltica service plan unveiled
• Highlighting luggage areas
• Brightline and Virgin Trains - multimodality

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IARO Express - Issue 321 - 4th April 2019

• Long distance competition in Switzerland
• KLIA Ekspres and Malindo Air
• Charlotte - light rail line to airport
• British Airways to launch Gatwick to Milan Bergamo service
• People-mover for Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI)

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IARO Express - Issue 320 - 28th March 2019

• New park and ride for Cardiff Airport?
• News from Moscow
• Federal and Victorian governments sign off on Melbourne airport rail link
• Expansion plans for Milwaukee
• Short air routes to go?

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IARO Express - Issue 319 - 21st March 2019

• Douala Airport may get light rail
• Freight rail extension to South Bend airport studied
• Dallas – progress on Cotton Belt project
• Palermo airport line reopens following modernisation
• Glasgow access – where next?

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IARO Express - Issue 318 - 14th March 2019

• Flytog’s new trains – more details and photos
• Dr Jacob Kam to be MTR’s new CEO
• Live queue times now available online for New York airports
• Consultation starts on Leeds-Bradford access
• Third rail route to Tokyo Haneda Airport

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IARO Express - Issue 317 - 7th March 2019

• Heathrow Express accepts Contactless and Oyster card payments
• Romania launches another tender for Bucharest air-rail link project
• Toronto pedestrian tunnel delayed
• Delhi’s new airport: construction to start, for 2022 opening
• Progress with Dakar link
• Next week - Airport Express Oslo’s new trains

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IARO Express - Issue 316 - 28th February 2019

• A new platform for LCY?
• Lucknow metro – north-south corridor to open soon
• Accra airport access improvements under study
• Progress on Silver Line to Washington Dulles
• Firenze airport tram route open

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IARO Express - Issue 314 - 14th February 2019

• Wenzhou airport line planned
• Airport and Aerospace Express in Toulouse
• SMART over a million
• Social mobility for door to door booking
• Taxi and parking costs at airports

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IARO Express - Issue 315 - 14th February 2019

• Riga Airport’s new terminal
• Amtrak plans to serve Long Island
• Old Oak Common station plans
• Chennai Blue Line extension opens
• KLIA Ekspres to go international?

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IARO Express - Issue 313 - 7th February 2019

• Rail connection to Milan Bergamo Airport
• National Rail Passenger Survey results - Autumn 2018
• BART – San Jose extension
• Progress with Jinan Metro
• Beijing New Airport Line train unveiled

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IARO Express - Issue 312 - 31st January 2019

• California state rail plan (September 2018) – connecting airports
• Work starts on Heathrow Express 387s
• Which way to go?
• North West Rail wins Hannover S-Bahn contract
• India: Bengalaru – airport metro and four suburban lines approved

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IARO Express - Issue 311 - 24th January 2019

• News from the Crenshaw/LAX Line
• Temporary in-town check-in in Paris
• Navi Mumbai metro project delayed
• More links for Manchester airport
• Shenyang tram – now 2 lines to the airport

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IARO Express - Issue 310 - 17th January 2019

• Tex Rail did open!
• Usage of airport stations in Great Britain
• News from Norway
• Gatwick Airport to change hands
• Rio airport tram extended

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IARO Express - Issue 309 - 10th January 2019

• Qingdao – new high speed connection
• TEX Rail to DFW – opening slightly delayed by Federal shutdown
• Trams reach Nice Côte d’Azur Airport
• CAT in 2017
• Birmingham airport masterplan
• ….And finally: Happy 2019!

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IARO Express - Issue 308 - 20th December 2018

• Paderborn Airport: off-airport check-in closed
• Seattle's Lynnwood light-rail project to go ahead
• Mumbai airport – progress
• Badgery’s Creek - progress
• DB to operate regional express services to Munich Airport
• UK mode share statistics - clarification

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IARO Express - Issue 307 - 14th December 2018

• Mode shares at major UK airports - 2017
• Changes to Los Angeles Metro services
• Second München S-Bahn crossing contract awarded
• Kyiv airport link open
• First Dakar airport train shipped

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IARO Express - Issue 306 - 6th December 2018

• Siemens to provide new Piccadilly Line trains
• Riyadh Metro line 4
• Procurement started for Riga airport railway
• Bucharest Coanda Airport – two tenders published
• New bag drop opens in car park at Denver International airport

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IARO Express - Issue 305 - 29th November 2018

• Porto – tram carryings encouraging
• Vijayawada Metro likely to be light rail
• Auburn-Lewiston – potential rail connection
• Birmingham International developments to start soon
• Japanese passengers prefer train over air travel for short routes

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IARO Express - Issue 304 - 22nd November 2018

• Auckland airport link under discussion
• Italian State Railways confirms bid for Alitalia
• Brightline: Miami - Orlando and beyond 
• Thai inter-airport rail link contract to be awarded by January
• Changing traction

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IARO Express - Issue 303 - 15th November 2018

• Boston 2040
• Istanbul’s new airport
• Est-Nord link confirmed
• Light automated metro for Bristol?
• Bhopal and Indore metros approved
• Mexico City

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IARO Express - Issue 302 - 8th November 2018

• Friends on the move
• Cleveland’s airport railway celebrates 50!
• Keolis keeps Bergen light rail contract
• Gatwick airport – access modes
• Urumqi Airport Metro opens

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IARO Express - Issue 301 - 1st November 2018

• Personalised “disruption-messaging” technology
• Cotton Belt commuter rail line to Dallas-Fort Worth approved
• Three bids submitted for Panama airport metro
• New Stadler tram-trains for Lugano–Ponte Tresa railway
• Delhi – inter-airport link

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IARO Express - Issue 300 - 25th October 2018

• When will Crossrail trains run into Heathrow?
• Aerial cableway proposed for San Diego airport
• New central station for Bangkok to accommodate three airports service
• Poland is planning Europe’s biggest airport
• Abuja airport light rail open

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IARO Express - Issue 299 - 18th October 2018

• Leeds-Bradford Airport bus rail link closer
• Air Transat joins TGV AIR
• Helsinki link part of international tender
• Sydney – improvements coming slowly
• Financing completed for Montréal’s REM

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IARO Express - Issue 298 - 11th October 2018

• Bristol Airport may get rail link
• Airline to run Madrid - Montpellier open access service
• Sonoma airport railway to be extended northwards
• Haramain line partially opens: airport spur to open next year
• Thailand to Double Airport Capacity

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IARO Express - Issue 297 - 5th October 2018

• Las Vegas: Ivanpah revived?
• Central Poland Airport – Transport Hub
• Israel’s high speed link opens - partly
• No weekend trains at Southend until December
• Sri Lanka government approves Mattala BOT airport rail link tender

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IARO Express - Issue 296 - 27th September 2018

• Frankfurt airport regional station being renovated
• 5-year TGV expansion programme includes Picardy – CDG
• Melbourne rail link moves ahead with PPP
• WMATA seeks operator for Dulles airport extension
• Porterbrook and University of Birmingham to develop the UK’s first hydrogen-powered train

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IARO Express - Issue 295 - 20th September 2018

• St Petersburg air-rail connection
• South Bend improvements for Gary airport
• São Paulo – Guarulhos Airport services
• Additional funding approved for Milano Linate metro
• Progress on Bangkok’s inter-airport high speed line
• Heathrow’s Inter-Terminal Shuttle – a clarification

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IARO Express - Issue 294 - 13th September 2018

• BWI main line station to be renovated
• Heathrow’s ITT is back
• New destinations for Lufthansa Express Rail
• KL’s new air rail link
• The Zhengzhou Aerotropolis

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IARO Express - Issue 293 - 6th September 2018

• Badgery’s Creek Aerotropolis
• Hamburg S-Bahn automation agreement signed
• FTA awards $22.5m grant to SMART for extension
• Extra service on Bangkok airport railway – intriguing story
• Great Western franchise consultation

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IARO Express - Issue 292 - 30th August 2018

• Indonesia’s airport rail links take off
• What next for Los Angeles’ Green Line?
• Light rail link planned to Oradea airport
• Light rail to Auckland airport
• Mattala link moves ahead

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IARO Express - Issue 291 - 23rd August 2018

• Emirates expands its network in Italy, signs codeshare agreement with Trenitalia
• Los Angeles Blue Line disrupted for upgrades January – September 2019
• Doncaster-Sheffield: masterplan consultation supported
• Metro links to Istanbul’s new airport
• Seoul high speed service suspended

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IARO Express - Issue 290 - 16th August 2018

• Manchester Metrolink’s T2 extension
• Baltimore airport light-rail service to resume on 20 August
• Bromma tram to open in 2020
• Hajj metro prepared for annual seven-day operating season
• Beijing’s new airport scheduled to open in September 2019

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IARO Express - Issue 289 - 9th August 2018

• Florence link to open in October
• Urumqi Metro – phased entry into service
• Innovative transit options for Atlanta’s Aerotropolis studied.
• BART San Jose extension moves closer
• Royal Jordanian joins tgv’air

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IARO Express - Issue 288 - 2nd August 2018

• Malpensa Express – new record
• Abuja airport light rail opens
• Freight NYC – rail freight terminal at JFK
• Better rail links for East Midlands
• Storm erosion causes partial suspension of BWI’s airport light rail

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IARO Express - Issue 287 - 26th July 2018

• Congratulations and best wishes
• No tram to BHX
• CDG – Stratford competitor to Eurostar?
• Honolulu rail project $134m short
• Tram link to Ouargla airport planned
• Rail connections between Delhi’s airports planned

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IARO Express - Issue 286 - 19th July 2018

• 2 * 20
• Nice – first phase of airport tram opens
• Dalian airport metro extended
• Piccadilly line to get air-conditioned trains
• Cruise liner check-in + train at Seattle

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IARO Express - Issue 285 - 12th July 2018

• New trains for CDG – Orly RER service
• East Midlands: air-rail cargo plans live
• India – you win some…you lose some
• LaGuardia Airport rail link moves ahead
• New light rail connection to Ottawa airport proposed

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IARO Express - Issue 284 - 5th July 2018

• NRPS Spring 2018
• Metro begins feasibility study for connecting Los Angeles airport with the San Fernando Valley
• Novosibirsk airport link coming – slowly
• Gothenburg Airport rail link to go ahead
• Chennai Metro – new airport station well used

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IARO Express - Issue 283 - 28th June 2018

• KeolisAmey to run Wales’ trains
• Two routes emerge for Melbourne Airport rail link
• Los Angeles City Council approves airport automated people mover
• Cathay Pacific to sell air-rail tickets
• Denmark – Sweden cross-border metro project moves forward
• UK Parliament approves Airports National Policy Statement

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IARO Express - Issue 282 - 21st June 2018

• East Midlands and CrossCountry Franchises
• In-town check-in planned for Kochi Metro
• Düsseldorf – new tracks for more frequent services
• Chicago Express bidder chosen
• Calgary Green Line approved – may reach airport sometime

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IARO Express - Issue 281 - 14th June 2018

• Delhi’s new airport: three rail links?
• New UK flows of aviation fuel by rail
• Minsk link suspended
• People-mover for Logan?
• Work to start next year on Venice Airport rail link

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IARO Express - Issue 280 - 7th June 2018

• Taipei in-town check-in – some nice points
• Pearson Airport’s new draft master plan includes transit hub
• Refurbished repowered trains for Reading – Gatwick service
• High speed train connection announced for Girona airport
• Guangzhou metro extension

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IARO Express - Issue 279 - 31st May 2018

• Rail link to Delhi’s domestic terminal opens
• Birmingham International station redesign makes progress
• Ottawa’s light rail project receives more funding
• Transdev wins Hannover S-Bahn concession
• Intermodality promoted in China

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IARO Express - Issue 278 - 24th May 2018

• Toulouse line 3 contract awarded
• Emirates offers free rail ticket with flights from Stansted
• “Improving rail links to Heathrow from the west and beyond”
• “How many Angelenos will use multibillion-dollar trains to get to LAX?”
• Volgograd airport rail link opens

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IARO Express - Issue 277 - 17th May 2018

• Heathrow Connect: The end of the line
• Burbank Airport’s second station opens
• Tenders invited for Tiranë airport rail link
• Light rail to Auckland Airport – an interesting view.
• New Central Poland Airport planned

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IARO Express - Issue 276 - 10th May 2018

• Kuala Lumpur – link to second airport
• Salvador metro reaches airport
• More trains between SFO and Millbrae?
• Upgrade to improve Fiumicino’s rail links
• Heathrow Express – “negative” gender pay gap

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IARO Express - Issue 275 - 3rd May 2018

• Australian Government to invest US$3.9bn in Melbourne Airport rail link
• Contracts awarded for new line to Orly
• Chicago Blue Line signal upgrade contract awarded
• Work starts on Luton Airport people-mover
• MTR to operate and maintain Macau LRT Taipa Line

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IARO Express - Issue 274 - 26th April 2018

• Gatwick Airport station upgrade planned
• Increased service between Amsterdam Schiphol and Paris CDG
• News from Toronto
• Guarulhos link opens – in stages
• ISRET 2018

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IARO Express - Issue 273 - 19th April 2018

• New trains to Heathrow
• Phnom Penh airport rail link opens
• Dublin – Metro North back
• Two bidders selected for the O’Hare Express project
• Baku suburban railway planned

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IARO Express - Issue 272 - 12th April 2018

• Bordeaux Airport developments
• Amtrak retains BWI contract
• Light rail to Doncaster airport?
• Audio guides on the London Underground
• Moving walkways for Chennai Airport metro link

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IARO Express - Issue 271 - 5th April 2018

• Gatwick Express to retain premium
• Los Angeles Green Line reopens early
• Kuwait – regional rail confirmed
• Trondheim airport line tendering
• Rail Baltica launches design tender for Riga section

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IARO Express - Issue 270 - 29th March 2018

• Trieste Airport station open
• Firenze tram to open in October
• Kiev airport railway – December?
• Good news on Heathrow Southern Rail Access
• Port Authority capital budget helps Newark and LaGuardia

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IARO Express - Issue 269 - 22nd March 2018

• News from Stansted
• Metro do Porto changes seat layout
• State rail plan includes Bradley Airport
• Governments commit to second Sydney airport rail link
• KLIA Ekspres gets new trains

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IARO Express - Issue 268 - 15th March 2018

• Grand Paris Express – new dates
• Testing begins in Crossrail Thames tunnel
• Conglomerates bid to upgrade Manila airport
• The New Blue
• Wuxi Airport link now to open in 2020

 

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IARO Express - Issue 267 - 8th March 2018

• Through trains from Gatwick to Peterborough and Cambridge
• Flytoget’s first new train nears completion
• Los Angeles APM builder selected
• Singapore T5 to be part of MRT system
• Priorities?

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IARO Express - Issue 266 - 1st March 2018

• Aircraft as rail cargo to an airport
• HOK to design new Pearson Airport transit centre
• Heathrow Southern Rail Link – key to cargo by rail?
• Changes in Helsinki
• Thailand’s Three Airports Seamless Connection project

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IARO Express - Issue 265 - 22nd February 2018

• Low cost and high speed to new station near Barcelona airport
• London-Amsterdam service to start in April – but no Schiphol stop
• Montréal light-rail construction to begin in April
• Manila Clark – rail connection in 2022?
• Light rail link for Baghdad international

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IARO Express - Issue 264 - 15th February 2018

• Per Thorstenson to retire
• Avalon Airport to get rail connection?
• Indonesia – rail links take off
• Reproduced from www.dutchnews.nl (without comment)
• Rail cargo terminal for Heathrow?
• Consortium selected for Los Angeles Airport people-mover

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IARO Express - Issue 263 - 8th February 2018

• JAL markets Air and Rail tours
• New north-south connection to Los Angeles airport being studied
• NRPS Autumn 2017
• New Paris tram – to Orly Airport eventually
• Congonhas monorail – new operator, new date

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IARO Express - Issue 262 - 1st February 2018

• Shanghai Line 17 opens
• Incheon Airport Terminal 2 rail link opens
• Los Angeles Green Line part closure
• Elizabeth Line services
• Katowice airport rail link planned

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IARO Express - Issue 261 - 25th January 2018

• West Coast high speed rail to serve Vancouver and Portland airports
• Bilbao airport metro closer?
• New Indian airport to have rail links
• Korea opens Olympic high-speed line
• IAG, Heathrow and Heathrow Express

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IARO Express - Issue 260 - 18th January 2018

• Cross-Øresund services to be split
• Brighton Main Line rail improvement project
• Calgary Airport LRT
• Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed rail to open on 30 March 2018
• Chongqing Airport Line opens

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IARO Express - Issue 259 - 11th January 2018

• Record year for Heathrow Express
• Thalys ridership breaks seven-million barrier
• CDG Express secures state loan
• Orlando Airport intercity rail approved
• Work starts on Abidjan airport link
• Jakarta – a correction

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IARO Express - Issue 258 - 4th January 2018

• £286m business case agreed for Birmingham airport hub
• Volgograd airport link to be ready for kick-off
• Delays and escalating costs hit Stuttgart 21
• Amtrak to Providence TF Green Airport?
• Beijing region plans rail-connected airports

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IARO Express - Issue 257 - 21st December 2017

• Rail connections to Charlotte under consideration
• New service between Milan Malpensa and Switzerland from June
• Luton’s vision
• Bengalaru – controversial decision
• UNEP Assessment report on Beijing Capital International Airport

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IARO Express - Issue 256 - 14th December 2017

• First section of Luxembourg tramway opens
• Airport station usage Great Britain 2016/2017
• Los Angeles Green Line – temporary closure for airport connection
• Suburban connection to Bengalaru airport coming
• Manila airport links move ahead

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IARO Express - Issue 255 - 7th December 2017

• Southend to operate its own trains?
• Montpellier – high speed link to open in July
• O’Hare Express revived?
• Proposed rail extension to Newark airport goes before the public
• Direct trains from Incheon to the Winter Olympics
• Birmingham’s railway experts win Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education

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IARO Express - Issue 254 - 30th November 2017

• Vinci inaugurates Terminal 1 at Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport
• Jakarta airport rail line open
• Aeroexpress Kiss EMUs enter revenue service
• Long Beach Airport shuttle
• May 2018 GB timetable (GBTT) change

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IARO Express - Issue 253 - 23rd November 2017

• Heathrow Express tickets now available through Virgin Atlantic Wi-Fi
• CATch the City!
• Tex Rail starts work in DFW
• Urumqi airport line contract
• Spanish airline to enter high-speed rail market

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IARO Express - Issue 252 - 16th November 2017

• City Airport Train Bonus Club gives Fast Track access
• A new transit hub at Pearson?
• Kuwait metro back on track: airport on first phase
• AirPortr expands
• LAIRA

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IARO Express - Issue 251 - 9th November 2017

• Amiens – CDG connection funded
• Developments in Manila
• Atlanta - Chattanooga high speed line to serve both airports
• Better bus service to Luton Airport
• Salvador metro Line 2 – closer to the airport

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IARO Express - Issue 250 - 2nd November 2017

• Draft National Transport Infrastructure Plan – Skavsta’s link in, Gothenburg’s delayed
• Chengdu Metro Line 10 officially open
• New multimodal cargo hub for East Midlands airport
• Dundas West TTC station to be connected to Union Pearson Express station
• Thalys revises onboard products

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IARO Express - Issue 249 - 26th October 2017

• Denver airport rail campaign wins APTA AdWheel Grand Award
• Trams for East Midlands Airport?
• Planned new Overground stations will improve connectivity to Heathrow
• Tram-bus for Brussels?
• Plans for Jaipur airport metro advance

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IARO Express - Issue 248 - 19th October 2017

• New airport recommended for Costa Rica
• Dublin airport connection coming – slowly
• New offshore airport for Dalian
• SMART – baptism of fire
• Heathrow Southern Link closer?

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IARO Express - Issue 247 - 12th October 2017

• Amtrak connection to Sacramento airport?
• Connections to Milan Malpensa
• Operator chosen for Bandung Airport rail link
• More services to Stansted airport
• Smarter move?

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IARO Express - Issue 246 - 5th October 2017

• Early morning services to Gatwick
• More services to Zürich airport?
• Wellington airport light rail supported
• Salt Lake City – saving, value engineering or sell-out?
• Doha metro trains begin testing

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IARO Express - Issue 245 - 28th September 2017

• Report recommends fewer early morning services to Gatwick
• More capacity on the New York - Newark line coming?
• Gautrain ownership changes
• New tram route between Tallinn Airport and city centre
• Saudi Arabia starts passenger services

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IARO Express - Issue 244 - 21st September 2017

• Report recommends more early trains to Gatwick
• New transit link planned between Minneapolis – St Paul airport and St Paul
• Tenerife to restart planning for Tren del Sur
• Mexico City studies airport rail link
• Kansai Airport railway targeting inbound passengers

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IARO Express - Issue 243 - 14th September 2017

• News from Berlin
• Atlanta to start work on automated people mover extension
• Edinburgh Gateway station criticised – prematurely?
• Shiraz opens airport metro extension

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IARO Express - Issue 242 - 7th September 2017

• New station for Graz airport
• Vijayawada light rail to serve airport?
• First TEX Rail DMU completed
• Free high speed train travel to Taoyuan
• Aberdeen airport rail link still on council’s agenda

 

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IARO Express - Issue 241 - 31st August 2017

• Central Airport Poland
• Tehran metro extended to Imam Khomeini International Airport
• UP Express to make another stop
• First part of Lucknow metro approved for commercial operation
• Heathrow Express – second most punctual train service in the country

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IARO Express - Issue 240 - 24th August 2017

• Samsun airport light rail
• Palermo rail project restarts
• News from Delhi Metro
• Improvements to Providence Airport studied
• SMART commuter-rail system starts 25 August

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IARO Express - Issue 239 - 17th August 2017

• Good first half for Mass Transit Rail Corporation
• Monorail for new airport in Shaanxi
• Los Angeles Blue Line improvements study
• Tallinn airport tram to be completed this year
• New West Midlands franchise
• 1100

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IARO Express - Issue 238 - 10th August 2017

• Work restarts on Naples (Napoli) metro airport extension
• Indian Railways integrated app for train and air travellers
• Los Angeles Gold Line moves ahead – but not yet to Ontario Airport
• RFI launched for New York LaGuardia Airport rail link
• UK government consults on aviation strategy

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IARO Express - Issue 237 - 3rd August 2017

• Work restarts on Naples (Napoli) metro airport extension
• Indian Railways integrated app for train and air travellers
• Los Angeles Gold Line moves ahead – but not yet to Ontario Airport
• RFI launched for New York LaGuardia Airport rail link
• UK government consults on aviation strategy

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IARO Express - Issue 236 - 27th July 2017

• Maglev proposed for Colombo Airport Railway
• Bill to seek funds for Las Vegas light rail signed
• London Luton peoplemover approved 
• Montpellier’s new station
• Heathrow Express – excellent NRPS scores

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IARO Express - Issue 235 - 20th July 2017

• Doncaster Airport train link?
• Boston Logan to get a better rail connection
• Dhaka metro proposals
• Salvador metro phase 2 finance arranged
• Malpensa – Switzerland train service

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IARO Express - Issue 233 - 13th July 2017

• Rail connectivity at Heathrow
• Funding for CDG Express approved
• Amadeus develops Global Distribution System (GDS) for rail
• Manila-Clark railway system to open in 2020
• Brightline trains to run on biodiesel

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IARO Express - Issue 234 - 13th July 2017

• Rail connectivity at Heathrow
• Funding for CDG Express approved
• Amadeus develops Global Distribution System (GDS) for rail
• Manila-Clark railway system to open in 2020
• Brightline trains to run on biodiesel

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IARO Express - Issue 232 - 29th June 2017

• Congratulations
• Malpensa – Switzerland trains disrupted until December
• Fraport’s people mover extended
• Montreal REM project on course
• New Luanda airport to open soon

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IARO Express - Issue 231 - 22nd June 2017

• Southampton ambition
• Ottawa light rail extension fully funded
• Riyadh Metro on track
• Work begins on Perth Airport rail link
• Sydney Airport to get increased train service

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IARO Express - Issue 230 - 15th June 2017

• Melbourne Airport rail link: start planning now
• Work starts on Astana airport light rail
• London-Amsterdam direct from Easter 2018
• Heathrow Express to the rescue
• Toronto - Windsor high-speed rail

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IARO Express - Issue 229 - 8th June 2017

• Work starts on high-speed link to Beijing’s new airport
• Tenders invited for Riga Airport link
• Heathrow track access charges
• Business pressure for inter-airport railway in Manila
• Miami cuts service

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IARO Express - IARO 228 - 1st June 2017

• Keflavik rail link – on the move again?
• Rhode Island Air Show – free trains a success
• Barcelona Line 9 construction to restart
• Inland railway connection to Queensland to serve Wellcamp Airport?
• Progress in Jakarta

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IARO Express - Issue 227 - 25th May 2017

• S-Bahn to Frankfurt Terminal 3?
• Support for Belfast International rail link
• LaGuardia AirTrain preliminary engineering appointment
• Phuket light-rail plans revised
• Shanghai – more on the planned inter-airport high speed line

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IARO Express - Issue 226 - 18th May 2017

• Manchester airport timetable improvements
• Melbourne airport rail link
• PANYNJ authorizes funds for PATH extension to Newark airport
• More free trains to Rhode Island Air Show
• Belgium Pass launched for European tourists

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IARO Express - Issue 225 - 11th May 2017

• Railway network to be set up in Pearl River Delta (PRD), serving Zhuhai airport
• Stansted Express new trains
• Orlando – good news and bad
• Rail Links and Sydney’s Airports
• Hanover – excellence in connections?
• BA on the move at Gatwick

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IARO Express - Issue 224 - 4th May 2017

• Bergen airport tram extension opens
• More airports on Chinese high speed lines?
• Toronto Pearson could become a transit centre
• Stansted Express – dedicated platform no more
• First phase of Salvador line 2 opens

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IARO Express - Issue 223 - 27th April 2017

• Melbourne Airport rail link – situation confused
• Airlines to invest in new Beijing airport
• Ticketing initiative on Stansted Express
• Munich to get second cross-city tunnel and S-Bahn Airport Express
• New ticketing and marketing initiatives in Philadelphia

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IARO Express - Issue 222 - 20th April 2017

• Catania metro makes progress
• Progress in Thessalonika
• Denver’s airport railway
• Las Vegas seeks permission to build light rail linking airport to 'The Strip'
• Kathmandu airport rail?

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IARO Express - Issue 221 - 13th April 2017

• Amsterdam – Eindhoven prototype for Dutch high-frequency inter-city services
• London rail tickets at Edinburgh airport
• Heathrow’s plans for sustainable growth
• KLIA Ekspres ridership growth
• Montréal airport metro funding

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IARO Express - Issue 220 - 6th April 2017

• Heathrow in 2016
• A one-seat ride to JFK?
• New tram to Düsseldorf?
• Airlines reduce discount on Taipei high speed rail tickets
• Best Airports for Transit – Global and US 2017 Rankings

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IARO Express - Issue 219 - 30th March 2017

• New Hollywood-Burbank Airport station construction starts
• Express tram for Moscow
• London & South Coast Rail Corridor Study
• Changes at Southampton
• Western Sydney Airport rail study consortium appointed

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IARO Express - Issue 218 - 23rd March 2017

• Royal Brunei Airlines launches new Fly-Rail-Coach product
• Jakarta air-rail link to start this summer
• Stockholm Citybanan subway to open in July
• Tucson – Phoenix route selected
• Americans believe improved ground transportation links to airports are needed

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IARO Express - Issue 217 - 16th March 2017

• Mass Transit Rail Corporation in 2016
• Tram link for Lille Airport?
• Milan metro and regional rail operators to merge?
• South Bend improvements approved
• Light rail for Bristol?

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IARO Express - Issue 216 - 9th March 2017

• Taipei’s airport rail link opens
• PisaMover opens
• Delhi to have inter-terminal people-mover
• Heathrow in top 30 big companies to work for
• Los Angeles Blue Line improvements being studied

 

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IARO Express - Issue 215 - 2nd March 2017

• Malindo Air now uses KLIA Ekspres in-town check-in services
• RER B fleet refurbishment contract announced
• Ottawa’s Stage 2 LRT plans include airport spur – probably
• Study completed for Ho Chi Minh City Airport metro
• Stansted’s newer trains

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IARO Express - Issue 214 - 23rd February 2017

• Lugano airport connection to be improved
• Smartphones to measure train ride comfort
• Cambodia announces the date for air-rail link construction
• Stewart line improvements discussed
• Plans submitted for MPT at London Luton Airport

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IARO Express - Issue 213 - 16th February 2017

• Light rail to Southampton Airport?
• Preliminary engineering RFP for LaGuardia AirTrain issued
• TEX Rail DFW Station contract awarded
• Taipei airport metro line starts trial running
• Hahn Air announces interline agreement with Eurostar

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IARO Express - Issue 212 - 9th February 2017

• Los Angeles Airport Express?
• News from Vancouver
• Second Jakarta airport link planned
• Border check process at Copenhagen airport station to be simplified
• Integrated booking on bmi?
• A tale of four cities – a postscript

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IARO Express - Issue 211 - 2nd February 2017

• A tale of four cities
• The Schiphol Warranty scheme
• Another rail-air-road interchange in the US
• Rails to Bogota's airports?
• Future Guwahati metro to serve airport

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IARO Express - Issue 210 - 26th January 2017

• Silver Line Progress
• Interesting synergy
• “Didn’t they do well?”
• Test running begins on Lucknow metro
• Zhengzhou airport metro opens

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IARO Express - Issue 209 - 19th January 2017

• Passenger surges
• Third Bosporus bridge to link 2 airports
• New San Jose link under consideration
• Improved Busan-Incheon connection
• Chennai air passengers to get walkator access to Metro

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IARO Express - Issue 208 - 12th January 2017

• Denver Airport Line success
• Plans for airport connections in Yorkshire, UK
• CDG Express – Parliamentary approval
• Delhi Metro makes progress with new lines
• Wuhan metro opens to airport

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IARO Express - Issue 207 - 5th January 2017

• Mode share at major UK airports
• Norwegian flights to spur rail connection to Stewart
• Brightline fleet developments
• Charlotte Douglas Airport link under study
• Inter-airport line included in Beijing Intercity Rail Network
• Sustainable development

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IARO Express - Issue 206 - 22nd December 2016

• Airport stations in Great Britain
• News from Edinburgh
• NEC Future to serve PHL
• Wuhan Airport connections open
• Prague airport rail link project moves forward

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IARO Express - Issue 205 - 15th December 2016

• Airport stations in Great Britain
• News from Edinburgh
• NEC Future to serve PHL
• Wuhan Airport connections open
• Prague airport rail link project moves forward

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IARO Express - Issue 204 - 8th December 2016

• Sea-Tac light rail connection to be improved
• Chennai: Battery cars to shuttle between metro and airport
• Coolangatta light rail backed
• CDG Express approved
• Wales & Borders bidders asked to propose Cardiff Metro options

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IARO Express - Issue 203 - 1st December 2016

• Zagreb airport tram makes progress
• Tram trains to boost economy by providing direct rail link between Glasgow Airport, Paisley and the city centre
• “Melbourne waffles on as Sydney quietly runs Airport Expresses”
• LIRR level of New York Penn Station to be modernised
• New CEF grant agreement for Rail Baltica signed

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IARO Express - Issue 202 - 24th November 2016

• Vinci consortium completes acquisition of Lyon airports
• Montreal rail project: bidders announced
• Sonoma airport link delayed?
• More Gatwick – Reading trains next year
• Delhi Airport Express: more fare options

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IARO Express - Issue 201 - 17th November 2016

• Royal Jordanian signs global agreement with AccesRail
• Grand Paris Express moves towards CDG
• West Anglia Line 5 Point call for action launched
• Columbus – Atlanta high speed line: benefits to Columbus
• Three potential routes for Atlanta-Chattanooga high speed rail line

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IARO Express - Issue 200 - 10th November 2016

• Two IARO Express Milestones today
• Dubai metro to Al Maktoum
• Silver Line to Dulles makes good progress.
• The “sharing” economy
• Budapest air-rail link closer
• Inverness (Scotland) Airport Station closer

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IARO Express - Issue 199 - 3rd November 2016

• Schiphol – more high speed from 2017
• Progress at Los Angeles
• Tirana link funded
• Developments at Birmingham, UK
• ERL won Best Safety Practices and Best Customer Service at LPT Symposium 2016

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IARO Express - Issue 198 - 27th October 2016

• New trains for KLIA Ekspres start to be delivered
• Heathrow’s Q3 results
• Intermodality issues in Austria
• UP Express news
• Ultra PRT for Glasgow Airport?

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IARO Express - Issue 197 - 20th October 2016

• South Bend airport service to be improved
• Perth airport link is good value for money
• Integration at Helsinki
• Feasibility study on Gautrain expansion project completed
• Improvements planned to Edinburgh tram

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IARO Express - Issue 196 - 13th October 2016

• Delta, Air France-KLM and Jet Airways to expand codeshare from CDG
• Delhi metro expands in-town check-in
• Direct rail link for Aberdeen?
• Options for airport rail in Texas and Oklahoma
• Baltimore - Washington DC maglev

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IARO Express - Issue 195 - 6th October 2016

• Bucharest – Coanda airport metro funding
• 2018 Thameslink timetable
• News from New York
• Regional inter-city services in Victoria
• Tel Aviv Airport on new high speed line

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IARO Express - Issue 194 - 29th September 2016

• Seattle Airport line extension opens
• Brussels airport – regional trams to start?
• Heathrow Express launches new multi-lingual advertising campaign
• Chennai metro reaches airport
• Virgin Trains targets flyers between London and Edinburgh

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IARO Express - Issue 193 - 22nd September 2016

• Congratulations…
• Better link for Torino
• Better South Western airport connections still wanted
• Nashville – LRT to the airport?
• Does improved transit to airports affect parking revenue?
• Changsha airport rail data

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IARO Express - Issue 192 - 15th September 2016

• Bergen Airport – trams closer
• First Elizabeth Line train unveiled to the rail media
• Consultation backs light rail to Coolangatta airport
• Lima airport metro trains on the way
• BART rewards program to encourage ridership outside peak hours

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IARO Express - Issue 191 - 8th September 2016

• Tex Rail project starts
• Work begins on Tallinn Airport tram extension
• Aeroexpress Moscow’s new trains?
• High speed line for Tehran Khomeini
• West Midlands Franchise ITT recognises airport needs

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IARO Express - Issue 190 - 1st September 2016

• Contract awarded for St Petersburg airport tram
• More connections for Newcastle (UK) Airport?
• Metro to Zhengzhou Airport coming
• Progress in Los Angeles
• Air & Rail cooperation extends in Spain

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IARO Express - Issue 189 - 25th August 2016

• Abellio retains East Anglia franchise
• Infrastructure improvements for Schiphol – Amsterdam
• Dakar Train Express Régional contracts
• Caltrain signs double-deck EMU and electrification contracts
• Orlando airport’s southern terminal to start

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IARO Express - Issue 188 - 18th August 2016

• Heathrow Western Access contract awarded
• Medan airport railway to be extended
• Northeast Corridor airport access
• CDG Express for Paris’s 2024 Olympic bid
• MTR – 6 months to 30 June 2016

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IARO Express - Issue 187 - 11th August 2016

• Heathrow Express at 18
• Airtrain Brisbane to use Travelport’s Travel Commerce Platform
• Better links to Changi?
• Montréal light rail EIS
• Amman tram to serve airport
• Reading – Gatwick

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IARO Express - Issue 186 - 4th August 2016

• Cottonbelt Line coming to DFW
• Antalya airport tram enters regular service
• Heathrow’s results
• Macau LRT to begin operation in 2019
• .italo success
• James Cherry

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IARO Express - Issue 185 - 28th July 2016

• Better off-peak service to Long Island Islip MacArthur?
• UP Express remains in the news
• Schuman – Josephat tunnel
• Railway to buy airport?
• Battery-powered trains for Reading – Gatwick?

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IARO Express - Issue 184 - 21st July 2016

• Domodedovo aerotropolis
• Brighton main line study
• Bucharest’s airports to be rail connected within 5 years
• Contract awarded for Dubai metro Expo extension
• Two projects to enhance access to Newark Liberty International Airport

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IARO Express - Issue 183 - 14th July 2016

• Will Ontario Airport get a rail link?
• Trinity Railway Express may expand Dallas-Fort Worth service
• Kuwait – progress
• Ouigo to CDG?
• 24-hour trains at Birmingham?

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IARO Express - Issue 182 - 7th July 2016

• Plans for rail connection to Mexico City’s new airport
• Earl and Countess of Wessex use UP Express
• Tallinn airport tram
• Top European airports without railways
• NRPS Spring 2016

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IARO Express - Issue 181 - 30th June 2016

• TEN-T funding for airport links
• Light rail for Norfolk – 2 options
• TEX Rail on track for 2018 launch
• Tehran – progress
• 12-car Gatwick Express trains agreed

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IARO Express - Issue 180 - 23rd June 2016

• Shenzhen’s regional express to open end-June
• Birmingham airport light rail project on the move?
• Fourth Moscow airport officially opened
• Light rail to Ottawa airport
• Trondheim airport service included in competitive tendering

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IARO Express - Issue 179 - 16th June 2016

• Happy birthday, DART and TRE!
• News from Heathrow Express
• Better news from Vienna
• Cooperation between Indian Railways and Air India
• São Paulo – Congonhas monorail contract awarded

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IARO Express - Issue 178 - 9th June 2016

• Vienna in-town check-in
• Progress at Edinburgh Gateway
• South Shore Line double-track project moves ahead
• St. Petersburg airport tram plan revived
• Light rail to Santos Dumont

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IARO Express - Issue 177 - 2nd June 2016

• Jakarta’s airport trains
• Alstom chosen for Dakar rolling stock contract
• Second München S-Bahn tunnel approved
• London’s all-night tube rail to start from August
• Southern rail link for Philadelphia?

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IARO Express - Issue 176 - 26th May 2016

• Venice airport rail link closer
• Alliance formed to build Manchester rail project
• Airport funds for ground access
• Better air to high speed rail  connections in China
• Fraport Holds First “Frankfurt Airport Innovation Challenge”

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IARO Express - Issue 175 - 19th May 2016

• Malpensa’s T1-T2 rail link nearly “at the end of the line"
• Heathrow Express - record revenue in 2015
• Chennai metro likely to open to the airport soon
• SunRail to Orlando International
• Travelport part of online travel planning tool team

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IARO Express - Issue 174 - 12th May 2016

• New Bucharest South Airport to have 2 rail links
• Nexus and DB Regio to end Tyne & Wear Metro contract
• Jakarta airport train order
• Montreal - light-rail transit to the airport?
• Light rail for Las Vegas?

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IARO Express - Issue 173 - 5th May 2016

• ScotRail launches £20 fare for passengers connecting with Flybe flights
• Hong Kong Mass Transit Rail Corporation’s 2015 results
• Denver Airport: first impressions
• Honolulu Airport segment delayed
• Lufthansa Express Rail extended to Dortmund

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IARO Express - Issue 172 - 28th April 2016

• Record public transport share in ground transport service to Oslo Airport
• Denver's RTD service starts operating
• Brightline trains to use retractable gap filler
• Reykjavik airport rail link plans move forward
• Bangkok’s Airport Rail Link conducts emergency evacuation drills
• Early morning Airport Metrolink service set to take off

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IARO Express - Issue 171 - 21st April 2016

• Qatar Rail unveils Metro and Lusail tram designs
• Innovative Alitalia AereoBus service between Linate and Malpensa
• Israel Railways considers underground Tel Aviv – Airport line
• Luton Airport to St. Pancras in under half an hour
• Denver to DIA train opens Friday

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IARO Express - Issue 170 - 14th April 2016

• Antalya and Denver links to open on 22 April
• Milwaukee Airport service to be improved
• Manchester Airport shunted?
• Thessaloniki metro project ready to restart
• Tehran metro open to Mehrabad Airport

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IARO Express - Issue 169 - 7th April 2016

• London Airport to get LRT?
• Doha Red Line metro tunnel breakthrough
• Brussels Schuman - Josaphat rail tunnel opens
• Taipei airport link postponed again
• Southern rail access to Heathrow

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IARO Express - Issue 168 - 31st March 2016

• Changes to Rhônexpress
• Mumbai Metro airport stations to be funded by development fee
• Service Begins on Los Angeles Metro Gold Line Extension
• New Masterplan for Leeds Bradford (UK) Airport
• CH2M to lead UK HS2 Phase 1 work

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IARO Express - Issue 167 - 24th March 2016

• TfL secures €4m EU funding for two new Old Oak stations
• South Western rail franchise operators short-listed
• Work starts on Kolkata airport metro link 
• The A Line to JFK
• High Speed Rail Link from Keflavik to Reykjavík?

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IARO Express - Issue 166 - 16th March 2016

• Launch of new trains for Gatwick Express
• Chicago moves ahead with airport express plan
• Multi-section apm
• Ministry to seek approval for Phuket airport rail link
• Sri Lanka’s airport monorail plan shelved; light rail on the cards

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IARO Express - Issue 165 - 10th March 2016

• Consultation on western rail link to Heathrow
• Moscow's new Ramenskoye Airport to open soon
• MBTA to end late-night service by mid-March
• Port Canaveral and Orlando airport to work together
• Delhi Airport Express to carry cargo?

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IARO Express - Issue 164 - 3rd March 2016

• Bhopal and Indore airports to have metro connection by 2018?
• Coanda Airport Metro in the budget
• Contractor chosen for Perth airport rail link
• SeaTac Success
• “Surface transport to airports”

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IARO Express - Issue 163 - 25th February 2016

• Burbank Airport Metrolink ridership continues to drop
• Honolulu – first train to be delivered end-March
• Train Services to Padang Airport to be Launched This Year
• Edinburgh Gateway progress
• Second station for Sheremetyevo

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IARO Express - Issue 162 - 18th February 2016

• New Gatwick Express trains coming into service
• Skavsta link closer
• Eastern Iowa Airport
• KLIA trains do well!
• Mashhad (Iran) airport metro link open

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IARO Express - Issue 161 - 11th February 2016

• Number of maglev operations up by 50%!
• Western rail access delayed
• Burgas rail connection
• O’Hare Express - again
• Tel Aviv Airport station to be upgraded

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IARO Express - Issue 160 - 4th February 2016

• Dhaka – scope for confusion
• New links to new and old Bangkok airports
• Genoa airport rail link: an innovative solution planned
• Better connections at Las Vegas?
• Heathrow Express no. 2 in overall satisfaction

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IARO Express - Issue 159 - 28th January 2016

• RTD contractor to hold emergency preparedness drill for new airport line
• New link planned to Southend Airport
• New rail link between Helsinki and Tallinn proposed
• Honolulu trains start arriving in Spring
• Shenzhen update

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IARO Express - Issue 158 - 21st January 2016

• Planning agreement for high speed rail at Burbank
• Fraport in 2015
• Oyster to Gatwick – but with complications
• Fuzhou airport metro approved
• Palembang airport LRT to be completed by June 2018

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IARO Express - Issue 157 - 14th January 2016

• Great Britain airport station usage
• Amtrak airport station usage
• Update on LAX access improvements
• Salvador - Line 1 open, line 2 (to the airport) under construction
• Grand Paris progress

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IARO Express - Issue 156 - 7th January 2016

• Happy birthday, Heathrow!
• Christmas partnership between airport express trains in Stockholm, Oslo and London
• Dubai Metro's Route 2020 to serve DWC Airport - eventually
• Nanchang to get airport metro
• Brussels – direct rail link between airport and European quarter
• TEX Rail shared-use agreement

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IARO Express - Issue 155 - 17th December 2015

• Jeddah - metro train and equipment procurement
• MTR wins Stockholm suburban rail concession
• Manchester Airport’s rail news
• Test train runs under cab signalling on Thameslink route through central London
• Senegal – new railway for Dakar and its airport
• Light rail to Sacramento airport – progress

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IARO Express - Issue 154 - 10th December 2015

• Governor of Lombardy visits Malpensa’s T1-T2 link
• New mobile payment app for Chicago
• Changsha airport links
• Fine for Network Rail converted into passenger benefits
• Jet Airways to move from Brussels to Amsterdam  

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IARO Express - Issue 153 - 3rd December 2015

• Glasgow airport – new rail options explored
• December timetable changes for Gatwick
• Security checks for Thalys passengers
• Vladivostock’s airport train
• UP Express to October

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IARO Express - Issue 152 - 26th November 2015

• Procurement programme for LAX access modernisation programme announced
• Phuket airport monorail plans advance
• Work starts on Bologna airport monorail
• Leeds/Bradford rail connection still under consideration
• Travelport enhances Heathrow Express booking
• New Direction for IARO member Hatch Mott MacDonald

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IARO Express - Issue 151 - 19th November 2015

• Oyster cards to work on Gatwick route
• Rhein-Ruhr-Express operating contracts signed 
• Kiev’s airport railway
• Gateway Tunnel project could lead to Newark Airport Express
• Badgery’s Creek

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IARO Express - Issue 150 - 12th November 2015

• Aeromexico Announces AccesRail Alliance
• Toronto’s UP Express - progress
• Heathrow’s Q3 results
• Lufthansa rebrands connections
• East-west link to Delhi IGI Airport Domestic Terminal

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IARO Express - Issue 149 - 5th November 2015

• TfGM shortlists four companies for next Metrolink operations contract
• Second phase of Zürich cross-city link opens
• Denver expects meetings boost from new rail and air connections
• Orlando – a little closer
• Beijing - new Daxing Airport rail link construction starts this year

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IARO Express - Issue 148 - 29th October 2015

• How to use an Airport Express
• Rail service to Denver International Airport will begin on April 22, 2016
• Thameslink Class 700 testing to begin soon
• New airport trams arrive in Bergen
• Airport monorail for Davao City

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IARO Express - Issue 147 - 22nd October 2015

• Chinese contractors interested in Swedish Y
• New Leonardo Express trains enter service
• Nice orders Alstom trams for Airport Line T2
• HSR to MSP?
• Heathrow and Gatwick Express at Christmas

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IARO Express - Issue 146 - 15th October 2015

• Tampa airport rail connection
• Manchester Airport needs good access for success
• Ground-breaking ceremony launches start of construction of Frankfurt Airport’s new Terminal 3
• Dublin – Metro North to Airport is on (again)
• Ningbo (China) metro opens to airport

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IARO Express - Issue 145 - 8th October 2015

• British and Chinese universities sign research agreement on joint high-speed rail lab
• Gautrain chooses Thales’s TransCity solution
• Travelport: SNCF partnership renewed
• Salt Lake City – major construction starts
• Europe 1 – new airport for northern Italy?
• Ningbo Metro Line 2 opens to the airport

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IARO Express - Issue 144 - 1st October 2015

• Best wishes, Mike!
• Bangkok in-town check-in out?
• Amtrak adds later Saturday night trains at Milwaukee airport
• Yaroslavl (Russia) plans fast tram line to airport
• Spanish air-rail intermodality advances

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IARO Express - Issue 143 - 24th September 2015

• Beijing Airport Metro to be extended
• Honolulu Rail project facing funding shortfall
• Delhi Metro to reduce Airport Express fares
• Edinburgh Trams – earlier airport service trial
• easyJet announces strategic partnership with Cranfield University
• ACRP Report 118

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IARO Express - Issue 142 - 17th September 2015

• New light rail routes for Moscow airports
• Light rail to BHX?
• SNC-Lavalin consortium to build new Orly light rail
• What’s happening in Ahmedabad?
• 3 Arizona airports may get regional rail
• House of Commons Transport Committee looks at surface access to airports

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IARO Express - Issue 141 - 10th September 2015

• Heathrow Airport results
• Progress at Los Angeles? 
• Poland: Gdansk airport railway opens, Krakow re-opens
• Aeroexpress Moscow to cut EMU order?
• Shenzhen – regional express to Bao’An Airport next year

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IARO Express - Issue 140 - 3rd September 2015

• Zürich Airport rail service to change on 13 December
• Denver RTD adds new station to Airport Line 
• Xiamen – new airport to have two rail links
• Gatwick expansion continues
• High speed to airports

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IARO Express - Issue 139 - 27th August 2015

• Heathrow Express depot to move further than planned
• Launch date for London’s Night Tube to be delayed
• Maryland applies for funds for Maglev train study
• GdaÅ„sk airport railway to open in September
• Makassar railway works to start in October

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IARO Express - Issue 138 - 20th August 2015

• Mike Allegra to stand down as CEO of UTA
• Denver - train testing and commissioning in progress
• Two Russian airports to get rail links
• Airport rail link option for Prague selected
• Britain’s biggest tunnel-boring machine starts work

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IARO Express - Issue 137 - 13th August 2015

• Toronto’s other airport rail link
• Silver Line’s first birthday
• Lufthansa's new commercial strategy
• GSM-R to cover Heathrow Express infrastructure
• Rail link to KL’s second airport closer

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IARO Express - Issue 136 - 6th August 2015

• Oslo better connected to the north
• Luton airport plans high speed rail link to London?
• “Sydney's Badgerys Creek airport will not have a rail connection”
• Progress in Montréal
• First year of the Silver Line

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IARO Express - Issue 135 - 30th July 2015

• “Reducing traffic – a new plan for public transport”
• Dedicated shuttle to Palm Beach International Airport to begin on 1 September
• New plan for LaGuardia includes Airtrain link
• Barcelona’s second and third airport rail links
• Abidjan Airport metro moves ahead

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IARO Express - Issue 134 - 23rd July 2015

• New Los Angeles line 33% complete
• First trains delivered for Rio’s tram system
• Riyadh Airport Line Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) launched
• Burgas airport rail link planned
• Crossrail station for London City? 

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IARO Express - Issue 133 - 16th July 2015

• Haramain high speed line to Jeddah airport to open 2017
• Miami – Orlando Airport service sees action
• Montreal Trudeau – progress?
• Heathrow – a new Southern Access scheme
• National Express and Abellio win Rhein-Ruhr-Express contracts serving Düsseldorf and Köln airports

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IARO Express - Issue 132 - 9th July 2015

• Hanover airport services tendered
• Billund Airport railway under study
• CaHSR station for Burbank Bob Hope Airport?
• New airport for Luanda to be rail connected
• Airport baggage services on the increase

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IARO Express - Issue 131 - 2nd July 2015

• UK Airports Commission: Final Report published
• Chennai Metro – nearly to the airport
• UP Express hitting targets
• Paris Gare du Nord to be transformed
• New plans for O’Hare rail connection
• Network Rail awards Heathrow Western Access design contract

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IARO Express - Issue 130 - 25th June 2015

• Rail to Las Vegas McCarran Airport?
• High speed rail to Skavsta closer
• Edinburgh tweets research
• Ghana studies airport light rail
• Funding agreed for Jakarta airport rail link

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IARO Express - Issue 129 - 18th June 2015

• Stansted Express enhances Liverpool Street information
• EBRD funds Amman airport link
• Emirates participation in tgv’air expands
• Tirana Rinas Airport to get a rail connection?
• Exciting days for TEX Rail

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IARO Express - Issue 128 - 11th June 2015

• UP Express - up and running!
• GTR uses Twitter for air-rail survey
• Express metro for new Chengdu airport
• Stuttgart U-Bahn delayed
• DB serve Hahn by long distance bus

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IARO Express - Issue 127 - 4th June 2015

• Bucharest Metro M6 to Coanda airport
• New airport for Rostov-on-Don to be on high speed line to Moscow and Adler
• Stansted statistics?
• VIA Rail extends its reach
• BWI station to be improved

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IARO Express - Issue 126 - 28th May 2015

• Chicago O'Hare Airport upgrade
• São Paulo Line 13 project management deal signed
• Luton to replace shuttle bus link?
• Firenze (Florence) – a start!
• The 2050 Airport (2050AP)

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IARO Express - Issue 125 - 21st May 2015

• Astana progress
• Firm plans for Bahrain
• TEX Rail moves forward
• MAG spreads its wings
• Bad news for Barajas

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IARO Express - Issue 124 - 14th May 2015

• Canberra – on or off?
• Heathrow's plan to reduce its environmental impact
• EU to support the development of better transport connections near Bucharest
• Dalian (China) - Metro to the Airport from 17 May

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IARO Express - Issue 123 - 7th May 2015

• Rostov-on-Don’s new airport
• Heathrow Airport’s figures
• Testing in progress on Taipei airport metro line
• Rome Fiumicino’s €12bn transformation enhancing end-to-end travel experience
• Dulles Airport Metro delayed until 2019

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IARO Express - Issue 122 - 30th April 2015

• Frankfurt announces Terminal 3 plans
• Newark airport monorail to be replaced?
• India to develop rail/air cargo links
• Light rail to Antalya Airport
• Tram-train for Manchester?

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IARO Express - Issue 121 - 23rd April 2015

• New trains for Gatwick Express
• New trains for WMATA’s Blue Line
• Ostrava airport rail link
• Linate trains ordered
• Doha airport to be on high speed rail network

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IARO Express - Issue 120 - 16th April 2015

• Prague - metro closer to airport
• Toulouse – tram to the airport
• DAS on airport railways
• Denver's new EMUs take maiden voyage
• Almaty Rail-Air Connection Brings Goods from China to Europe

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IARO Express - Issue 119 - 9th April 2015

• Work in progress on Badgery’s Creek extension
• Aeroexpress Moscow – funding issues
• Tri-Rail station to open at Miami airport
• Madrid Airport Metro line gets tunnel advertising
• New trains for Thameslink
• Today is US “Stand Up for Transportation” Day

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IARO Express - Issue 118 - 2nd April 2015

• New link for East Midlands Airport
• Chattanooga - light rail to airport?
• Airport Express Oslo orders CAF trains
• Progress with Cairo’s Line 3 to the airport
• Space – the final frontier?
• Stop press – Ostrava Airport Station opens on 15 April

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IARO Express - Issue 117 - 26th March 2015

• Leeds-Bradford (UK) Rail Link re-surfaces
• AdP ground transport investments
• Cross-Tokyo link to connect to Haneda?
• Denver airport fare reduced
• Gulf Air gives free German rail travel add-on

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IARO Express - Issue 116 - 19th March 2015

• KLIA Ekspres helps with the Makkah Metro during the Hajj
• Sydney airport trains punctuality
• Orlando International Airport investigates freight rail business
• 2014 results from Heathrow Airport…
• …and updated vision
• Orly tram to be extended

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IARO Express - Issue 115 - 12th March 2015

• “Imagining Our Transportation Future”
• PisaMover update
• All-night underground services to be extended in London
• Doha preferred bidder named
• Travelport becomes the first to offer a new industry-leading solution for airport express services 

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IARO Express - Issue 114 - 5th March 2015

• Union Pearson Express trains start pre-launch testing
• MBTA late night pilot program
• Helsinki Airport line to open in July
• Work on fourth platform at Manchester Airport completed
• Cairo Line 3 Phase 4 contracts awarded

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IARO Express - Issue 113 - 26th February 2015

• Stansted Airport Transport Forum on 19 February
• Monorail to Sabiha Gökçen?
• Transport the homeless – a challenge
• RTD Denver increases safety campaign with new lines
• Aeroexpress concentrates on Moscow 

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IARO Express - Issue 112 - 19th February 2015

• Faster tickets on the move with new Heathrow Express app
• Plans for direct trains between Dublin Airport and Cork, Galway and Limerick
• Siemens chosen for Rhine-Ruhr Express order
• UP Express and CIBC cooperate for customer service
• Chennai metro airport line takes shape

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IARO Express - Issue 111 - 12th February 2015

• Rail link between Shanghai’s Airports?
• UP tweet
• Fraport redesigns Terminal 1 road access
• AIRail Linz – Vienna a success
• South Wales electrification funding agreed

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IARO Express - Issue 110 - 5th February 2015

• Airport Express Hong Kong
• DHL to start helicopter service between Canary Wharf and Heathrow
• Travelport’s Schiphol cooperation continues
• Better rail services at Fiumicino
• Denver International Airport loses lawsuit against RTD

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IARO Express - Issue 109 - 29th January 2015

• Changsha Metro plans
• LaGuardia: going the wrong way?
• Glasgow Airport rail link work to start soon?
• Belfast to Dublin Airport?
• Linz airport connection coming from widening project

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IARO Express - Issue 108 - 22nd January 2015

• PATH forward
• Helsinki Airport Line to open in June
• Bologna airport shuttle
• A comment from Edinburgh
• Seoul metro operators to merge

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IARO Express - Issue 107 - 15th January 2015

• Manchester (UK) Metrolink Western extension
• Commuter or intercity rail to Manchester (USA)?
• Thalys sells through Amadeus
• First direct trains between Amsterdam Schiphol and Brussels airports
• Guidance for estimating airport construction emissions

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IARO Express - Issue 106 - 8th January 2015

• Austrian AIRail
• Trial Line 9 running to Barcelona airport
• Govia consults on timetable
• Possible bus-rail link to Hyderabad Rajiv Ghandi International
• Newark Airport - PATH airport extension study awarded to HNTB

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IARO Express - Issue 105 - 18th December 2014

• Union Pearson Express fares announced
• GCC railway to be completed by 2018
• Malpensa – Switzerland rail link closer
• Airport rail stations in Great Britain
• MAGnificent!

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IARO Express - Issue 104 - 11th December 2014

• Commuter or light rail being considered to link Columbus Airport to downtown.
• Enhancements for Gatwick
• Thailand update
• New rail line to Wroclaw Airport receives EU support
• First Double-Decker Aeroexpress Train Arrives in Moscow

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IARO Express - Issue 103 - 4th December 2014

• British Airways Launches Stress-Free Train Travel
• KLIA Ekspres orders CNR trains for 50% capacity increase
• New airport rail links possible under Northeast Corridor plan
• AIRail service changes
• Szczytno-Szymany

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IARO Express - Issue 102 - 27th November 2014

• Third quarter results from Heathrow…
• Longer CATs
• Cargo Tim
• First new EMUs on their way to Denver
• Wuhan: Keolis goes multimodal

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IARO Express - Issue 101 - 20th November 2014

• BART service to Oakland airport begins on 22 November 2014
• Thai AirAsia X launches onboard Sky Ticket service
• Thalys set to become independent in 2015
• Deal reached on Rail Baltica joint venture
• London City and Crossrail

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IARO Express - Issue 100 - 13th November 2014

• IARO Express reaches 100!
• Rail link for Aalborg
• National Express pulls out of Berlin S-Bahn competition
• Manchester airport station 4th platform coming
• Mid-America Port plan to bring multi-modality to Quincy
• Maroochydore Sunshine Coast light rail project re-surfaces

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IARO Express - Issue 99 - 6th November 2014

• Night Tube for London
• Work on Lucknow Metro Rail project starts
• All Ways Travelling
• Design competition for New York City airports announced
• VIA Rail goes international

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IARO Express - Issue 98 - 30th October 2014

• Praise:Complaint ratio
• Manchester Airport light rail line to open on 3 November
• Confirmation of new stock for Gatwick Express expected
• KLM launches Schiphol route planner app
• Malaysia Airlines joins tgv’air.

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IARO Express - Issue 97 - 23rd October 2014

• Utah Transit Authority (UTA): one of APTA’s 2014 Outstanding Public Transportation Systems
• PATH to Newark?
• Vienna’s new central station opens: new airport services in December
• Early birds at Köln
• Heathrow Airport Holdings announces the sale of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton Airports

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IARO Express - Issue 96 - 16th October 2014

• Govia’s plans for airports
• Blackpool Airport to close?
• Brussels - Charles de Gaulle – Strasbourg TGV from 2016
• Silver Line ridership ahead of projections
• UAE Rail plans funded

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IARO Express - Issue 95 - 9th October 2014

• Heathrow Express or cab? No contest!
• Road-rail fire engines protect Diabolo link
• TEX Rail gets FTA and FAA approval to proceed
• Update on Denver’s airport railway
• Melbourne Airport CEO’s support for rail link

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IARO Express - Issue 94 - 2nd October 2014

• MTR Corporation news
• All Aboard Florida - Miami to Orlando Passenger Rail Service
• European Commission approves Thalys restructuring
• Air rail connection through Finland
• An update on the plans for high speed rail to Italian airports

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IARO Express - Issue 93 - 25th September 2014

• UP Express makes good progress
• PFCs for transit?
• Frankfurt is having a good year
• Sverre Høven
• Stansted Sustainable Development Plan

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IARO Express - Issue 92 - 18th September 2014

• Malpensa Terminal 2 rail link contract awarded
• Bordeaux by tram next year?
• New operator for Thameslink
• Siemens to build Florida inter-city trains
• Brisbane Airport Masterplan

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IARO Express - Issue 91 - 11th September 2014

• Frankfurt “Home to Gate” service
• Better rail links for Liverpool Airport
• Plans for Baltimore – BWI - Washington DC maglev re-surface
• Washington Silver Line Dulles Extension receives federal funding
• Indian cabinet approves Nagpur metro

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IARO Express - Issue 90 - 4th September 2014

• German Rail tickets straight to your mobile phone
• High speed rail connections to top 3 Italian airports?
• Paddington station excavation work reaches Crossrail tunnels
• Tokyo Monorail to extend
• Tianjin metro reaches Binhai Airport

 

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IARO Express - Issue 89 - 28th August 2014

• Ottawa – rails to the airport?
• Haramain update
• Sabiha Gökçen rail connection 
• New station for Krakow airport
• North of England franchises short-list

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IARO Express - Issue 88 - 21st August 2014

• DART service to DFW Airport starts
• NS to acquire part of Thalys?
• Dublin BRT consultation
• Record airport passengers
• Doha metro contracts

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IARO Express - Issue 87 - 14th August 2014

• Perth Airport rail access makes progress
• Kuwait to tender Metro in 5-year plan
• TEN-T decisions good for airport railways
• Good first-half performance for Thalys
• Consultation on Northern and TransPennine Express (TPE) franchises

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IARO Express - Issue 86 - 7th August 2014

• News from Arlanda
• Temporary in-town check-in in Paris
• Heathrow Airport and Heathrow Express: a good first half for 2014
• Narita Express serves Mount Fuji
• Oakland Connector trains on system test

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IARO Express - Issue 85 - 31st July 2014

• Ostrava airport line to open in November
• New Aeroexpress trains coming in August
• Qingdao – to have 3 rail links?
• MTR Corporation wins £1.4bn contract to run Crossrail services
• SunRail's Orlando Airport plans moving ahead

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IARO Express - Issue 84 - 24th July 2014

• Nanjing airport line opens
• Phuket’s airport tram plans move ahead
• Washington Metro’s Silver Line to open on Saturday
• Trams to Manchester Airport arriving more than a year early
• CDG Express

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IARO Express - Issue 83 - 17th July 2014

• Medan rail link to be improved in stages
• Wien to get first long distance services
• New plan for rail to Glasgow Airport
• Bogotá tram-train study
• New passenger line for Oklahoma to link 2 airports

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IARO Express - Issue 82 - 10th July 2014

• Heathrow Southern Rail Access
• Major enhancements to Cross-Øresund rail networks proposed
• Air rail competition in China
• Burbank’s Regional Intermodal Transportation Center opens.
• Air derail?

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IARO Express - Issue 81 - 3rd July 2014

• Heathrow Express has satisfied passengers
• Additional connection to Old Oak Common station studied
• Japanese to study Mega Manila Subway to Ninoy Aquino airport
• Progress with the Gdánsk airport link
• Rail link to Austin makes progress

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IARO Express - Issue 80 - 26th June 2014

• Barcelona line 9 to serve the airport from 1st half 2016
• First phase of Zürich’s cross-city link inaugurated
• Mobile ticketing on Reading – Heathrow bus link
• Progress in Los Angeles?
• Metro Announces Silver Line Opening Date

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IARO Express - Issue 79 - 19th June 2014

• Piccadilly and Jubilee line services increased as record journeys made on Tube 
• Major new interchange for Nice Airport 
• Fares for Oakland Airport service set 
• Baltimore to be debottlenecked?
• Another plan for a rail link to Clark

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IARO Express - Issue 78 - 12th June 2014

• Heathrow’s Sustainable Transport Plan
• First step in Canberra to airport light rail 
• Luxembourg approves light rail legislation
• SNCB and AnsaldoBreda reach V250 settlement 
• Maglev for Orlando?

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IARO Express - Issue 77 - 5th June 2014

• Crossrail closer to London Heathrow
• Select Bus Service to serve LaGuardia Airport
• Yubileynaya stop introduced on Kazan Aeroexpress 
• Perth Airport rail link 
• KLIA Ekspres to be extended further?

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IARO Express - Issue 76 - 29th May 2014

• Govia wins expanded Thameslink franchise
• Edinburgh tram to start on Saturday
• Airports authority transfers Silver Line to WMATA
• Melbourne – 2 rail links supported
• Rail link to EuroAirport?

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IARO Express - Issue 75 - 22nd May 2014

• More Reading – Gatwick trains?
• Will planned improvements to Malpensa and Fiumicino happen?
• UTA enhances level crossing safety
• Airport Express Hong Kong
• Nagpur to get airport railway by 2020

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IARO Express - Issue 74 - 15th May 2014

• High speed rail for Toronto?
• New system map and countdown information for Boston
• What’s happening at Ontario Airport?
• 2013 - a record year for Arlanda Express and the Arlanda rail link
• Thalys launches Amsterdam – Lille services
• Kuala Lumpur airport rail link to KLIA2 opened on 2 May 2014

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IARO Express - Issue 73 - 8th May 2014

• The Queen to open Heathrow Terminal 2: The Queen’s Terminal
• Heathrow Express recent strike
• National Express to enter Spanish high-speed market
• Washington DC Silver Line Phase 1 Substantial Completion
• Zürich – trials on new airport connection

 

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IARO Express - Issue 72 - 1st May 2014

• More regional trains at Stansted
• A good first quarter for Heathrow
• Dutch Fyra dispute settled
• California crowding information
• Mass Transit Rail Corporation rethinks queuing

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IARO Express - Issue 71 - 24th April 2014

• Improvements for London Stansted?
• Sydney Airport Master Plan 2033
• Sydney’s second airport
• Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport rolls out the red carpet for its clients
• Rail connection planned for Abidjan airport
• And finally…first train at DFW International Airport

 

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IARO Express - Issue 70 - 17th April 2014

• Dallas Fort Worth Airport/DART update
• Easter Bunny boards Heathrow “Eggs-press”
• Regulators occasionally have their uses!
• Work starts on Riyadh metro project
• Melbourne – the saga continues

 

 

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IARO Express - Issue 69 - 10th April 2014

• KLIA Ekspres welcomes 50 millionth passenger     
• Hahn Air uses Amadeus for intermodal ticketing
• Denver Union Station transit centre to open early May
• Metro shelves direct rail line to LAX
• Easyjet expansion
• Colin Matthews to leave Heathrow

 

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IARO Express - Issue 68 - 3rd April 2014

• DFW to open early 
• Boston - early-morning services
• Lima Airport Metro advances
• Minsk airport to be on the city’s metro

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IARO Express - Issue 67 - 27th March 2014

• DART to open on 18 August
• Heathrow Express – step-free access to the City.
• Blue Line train incident at O’Hare
• Railway to Billund Airport
• Ryanair pulls out of Milano – Roma market
• Florida’s Tri-Rail carries record numbers

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IARO Express - Issue 66 - 20th March 2014

• Tram-trains for Glasgow?
• EU grant for Brussels airport link announced
• FTA announces urban rail funding recommendations for 2015
• Commuter rail for RDU?
• Las Vegas monorail to be extended to the airport?

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IARO Express - Issue 65 - 13th March 2014

• High speed rail plans for Egypt
• Montréal airport bus service cut
• New link for MSP
• A good 2013 for Heathrow
• Bids invited for Rhine-Ruhr Express concessions

 

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IARO Express - Issue 64 - 6th March 2014

• Heathrow Express’s best year ever
• GB airport stations mostly share passenger numbers increase 
• Atlanta airport to be focus of regional rail? 
• New connection for Stuttgart 
• Changi building T4, planning T5

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IARO Express - Issue 63 - 27th February 2014

• Stockholm Arlanda – over 50% by public transport
• Airport Express Oslo - record results
• Changsha to build airport – city maglev
• Thalys in 2013
• DART to DFW may open in September

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IARO Express - Issue 62 - 20th February 2014

• Russian Railways to sell half its stake in Aeroexpress. 
• Schiphol Group 2013 Annual Results 
• Dutch railway information system wins major design prize
• Ferrovial to buy UK regional airports?
• Union Pearson Express electrification budget

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IARO Express - Issue 61 - 13th February 2014

• Heathrow Express bids for Western Access
• Manchester Airport’s 4^th platform
• Another light rail connection for Copenhagen
• Capital plan includes $1.5bn for Newark Liberty Airport PATH extension
• Three prequalify for Lima airport metro 

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IARO Express - Issue 60 - 6th February 2014

• Freight as well as passenger rail for Kochi?
• Copenhagen expansion plans – with new station 
• Zürich cross-city link to open in June
• State Rail Plan guidance includes reference to intermodality
• Silver Line volume test

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IARO Express - Issue 59 - 30th January 2014

• Seamless Air-Rail Travel in the UK…
• …and Seamless Air-Rail Travel in Italy
• Gatwick’s new platform operational
• French government revives CDG Express plans
• UTA: planning new airport-university link…
• …and working to reduce air pollution

 

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IARO Express - Issue 58 - 23rd January 2014

• News from Stockholm Arlanda
• The world’s most productive runways!
• More on LAX connections
• A fourth Moscow airport
• Avalon - light rail rather than heavy rail?

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IARO Express - Issue 57 - 16th January 2014

• “Your New Blue” cuts ten minutes off O’Hare ride.
• News from Sydney 
• Manchester Airport – Glasgow under the wires
• Ljubljana airport link studied with EU funding
• More links for Brussels

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IARO Express - Issue 56 - 9th January 2014

• KL – SIN: progress and politics
• Edinburgh terminal extension
• Heathrow Express return fares held: singles up £1
• EIB loan for Crossrail trains
• Miami airport station modifications

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IARO Express - Issue 55 - 2nd January 2014

• PATH to EWR?
• Minneapolis Blue Line – longer trains
• Sonoma County airport station approved
• Gatwick First
• Zürich public transport to arrive at the airport at 5:3UK Airports Commission recommends rail enhancements

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IARO Express - Issue 54 - 19th December 2013

• 10 Years of City Airport Train Vienna
• Durham Tees Valley Airport rail improvements planned
• Orly tram extension approved
• Seoul Line 9 a success
• High Speed Rail O’Hare – St. Louis?
• UK Airports Commission publishes Interim Report

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IARO Express - Issue 53 - 12th December 2013

• CAT is 10 on 14 December
• Portland (Oregon) Link suits holiday crowds
• National Infrastructure Plan 2013
• Leipzig City Tunnel and Mitteldeutsche S-Bahn to open
• ”An aviation stakeholder’s view on intermodality”
• Manila Clark airport to be linked to North Luzon Railway

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IARO Express - Issue 52 - 5th December 2013

• Sun Rail still aiming for Orlando International Airport
• Gatwick half-year results
• Genova (Genoa) Airport rail link.
• 24 hour tube for London and Heathrow - at weekends.
• Environment assessment of air and high speed rail corridors

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IARO Express - Issue 51 - 28th November 2013

• UK's Birmingham Airport to get light rail and BRT
• Heathrow sustainable travel news
• Another high speed rail proposal for Denver 
• Rail options for LAX aired
• Delhi to get new east-west line

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IARO Express - Issue 50 - 21st November 2013

• New Saudi Arabian high-speed line may connect two airports
• Funding for Guarulhos link
• Charleroi airport station funded
• Longer double deck trains between Zürich and Genève airports
• New service between DFW and Shreveport/Bossier explored

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IARO Express - Issue 49 - 14th November 2013

• IARO Express, Issue 49: Thursday 14 November 2013
• Arlanda Express up for sale
• Aeroexpress figures for the first 9 months of 2013
• Aeroexpress publicity on the multi-storey car park at Vnukovo airport
• Etihad opens KL in-town check-in
• Stansted expansion?
• Work starts on Sri Lanka’s Southern Railway

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IARO Express - Issue 48 - 7th November 2013

• Thalys – good first half year
• Pisa rail link to close
• Muan to get high speed rail  link
• Gautrain to expand?
• Ottawa airport to be bypassed?

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IARO Express - Issue 47 - 31st October 2013

• Atkins wins Riyadh Metro design contract
• DWC opened on Sunday
• Jamaica station 100 years old
• SEPTA’s doomsday budget may close Philadelphia airport line by 2023

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IARO Express - Issue 46 - 24th October 2013

• All Aboard Florida secures two vital agreements.
• Alstom to refurbish MTA LRVs
• Heathrow Express news
• Mass Transit Rail Corporation to run high speed line to Beijing’s new airport?
• Salvador Metro concession awarded

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IARO Express - Issue 45 - 17th October 2013

• Sweden’s first high speed line to improve links to Skavsta and Landvetter
• New station for Palm Beach International?
• Train operator to save Alitalia?
• Birmingham’s record 12 months
• Metro to Pune airport comes closer

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IARO Express - Issue 44 - 10th October 2013

• Bangkok Airport Rail Link (ARL) changes
• Tender issued for London Gatwick to Luton rail franchise
• Eurostar to Schiphol in December 2016
• Peotone PPP progress?
• Global air-rail market share report- 2014 - invitation to participate

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IARO Express - Issue 43 - 3rd October 2013

• New transit option for LaGuardia
• East Rail Line project tours 
• Dedicated website for Silver Line 
• Edinburgh tram launch date 
• Stansted Express introduces Business Plus fares 

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IARO Express - Issue 42 - 26th September 2013

• More air rail cooperation in China
• Flybe offers discounted Southampton – London tickets
• Ordsall Chord plans submitted
• Arizona – 3 new airport rail connections in prospect
• Canberra Airport criticises rail bypass proposal

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IARO Express - Issue 41 - 19th September 2013

• Crenshaw Line – Notice to Proceed issued
• Hiawatha service increase planned – and trains to get wifi
• Oakland Connector a year from completion
• Work starts on Ostrava (Czech Republic) Airport link
• Crossrail bidders shortlisted
• IARO Gatwick workshop

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IARO Express - Issue 40 - 12th September 2013

• Ostend-Bruges to get tram connection?
• MARC to serve BWI on weekends from 7 December
• Tampa – third time lucky?
• Another station for Denver Airport line?
• Plans for Muscat move forward

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IARO Express - Issue 39 - 5th September 2013

• Work to start on Lucknow metro from airport
• Ottawa – airport rail link at last?
• Perth airport link planning funded
• More Bergen contracts let
• KL-Singapore line progress

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IARO Express - Issue 38 - 29th August 2013

• CDG Express is back – funded by a tax on air tickets
• Heathrow Express – new wrap coming
• St. Petersburg - light rail off?
• Medan Kuala Namu - in-town check-in
• Improved O’Hare Transit

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IARO Express - Issue 37 - 22nd August 2013

• Brazilian high speed rail delayed again
• Shenyang metro opening delayed 
• Air-bus integration
• Kuala Lumpur – new ticketing system for KLIA Ekspres
• A multi-modal pan-European transport information and booking system 

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IARO Express - Issue 36 - 15th August 2013

• GAO report on connections between airports and intercity rail
• Rail connections for Columbus and Gary recommended.
• Gateway@KLIA2
• More air-rail integration in China
• RER B under one management

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IARO Express - Issue 35 - 8th August 2013

• Lyon-St. Exupéry expands
• Barcelona plans to serve both terminals
• New Bari airport station opens
• Gandhinagar – Ahmedabad Metro Express: station design consultant needed
• Tender issued for Kochi metro trains

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IARO Express - Issue 34 - 1st August 2013

• Thalys to be restructured
• Riyadh contract let
• First Global Air-Rail Benchmark Report Shows Overall Market Share Increase
• Lyon St-Exupéry expands
• Dulles Silver Line phase 1 – 8 week delay announced.

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IARO Express - Issue 33 - 25th July 2013

• Progress with Toulouse Airport tram
• AIRail extends to Düsseldorf
• Szczecin link opens
• Al Maktoum to get Red Line early?
• New Constantine tram to be extended to the airport

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IARO Express - Issue 32 - 18th July 2013

• Bergen awards contract for LRT third phase
• Medan’s Kuala Namu International Airport to open at the end of this month
• Shenzen developments
• MWAA Issues Notice to Proceed with Silver Line Phase 2
• Ontario Airport: $584k to study passenger rail link

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IARO Express - Issue 31 - 11th July 2013

• Arriva to operate Brussels – The Hague service
• Orlando Airport - Miami services approvals almost complete
• East Midlands Airport bypassed
• New Ulaanbaatar airport
• Republic airport rail access

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IARO Express - Issue 30 - 4th July 2013

• Congratulations, Airport Express Hong Kong
• Rhônexpress diversifies its range of services.
• Metro Board Approves $1.27 Billion Contract for Crenshaw/LAX Project
• Delhi Metro Rail Corp takes over operation of Airport Express Line
• UTA Offers Free Multi-Day Parking

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IARO Express - Issue 29 - 27th June 2013

• UK government consults on Heathrow route for HS2
• London Heathrow Terminal 2 opening date
• Second Burbank Airport station
• Cleveland airport station reopened after upgrade
• Virgin Trains boosts Scotland-Birmingham  

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IARO Express - Issue 28 - 20th June 2013

• Congratulations, Heathrow Express
• Doha airport line contract let to Vinci joint venture
• Eilat confusion
• Iloilo to be connected?
• Prague – work continues on airport connections

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IARO Express - Issue 27 - 13th June 2013

• Fyra – the end  
• Chinese funding for Kyiv
• High speed rail for Charlotte-Douglas and Atlanta-Hartsfield?  
• Rio – tram to airport
• Szczytno-Szymany

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IARO Express - Issue 26 - 6th June 2013

• Alger to be connected
• Kuwait – new metro planned for new airport   
• Jet Airways to move from Brussels to Schiphol
• AENA to buy Luton?
• Notre Dame des Landes (Nantes-Rennes) airport to go ahead – with railway

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IARO Express - Issue 25 - 30th May 2013

• Kazan link opened 22 May
• Real-time signage at Logan
• Warsaw tunnel improvements leads to re-routing of airport trains
• Dubai update
• New operator for Schiphol?

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IARO Express - Issue 24 - 23rd May 2013

• New member
• Shenyang Metro
• KLIA Ekspres news
• Awards for IARO members
• MARC to start weekend service (May 2013)
• Submissions to UK Airports Commission

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IARO Express - Issue 23 - 16th May 2013

• Rio de Janeiro’s Santos Dumont Airport to get a tram
• Paywave on Aeroexpress Moscow
• Low carbon airport initiatives
• Heathrow – good numbers, but fewer of them!
• UK Aviation Strategy

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IARO Express - Issue 22 - 9th May 2013

• Route selected for Picardie - Roissy link
• High speed rail in the USA
• SeaTac extension work starts
• Light rail to Norfolk Naval Air Station?
• Multiple links in Indonesia

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IARO Express - Issue 21 - 2nd May 2013

• New regional link to München
• Arlanda gets a new T2
• Dulles Phase 2 bids opened
• Heathrow Express sells through Aer Lingus
• Grand Paris Express approved: to serve 3 airports

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IARO Express - Issue 20 - 25th April 2013

• New Shanghai inter-airport link?
• Further reductions on BART for airport-based employees
• WiFi for Chicago’s Blue Line
• Heathrow Express markets in New York
• Heathrow celebrates British gardens

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IARO Express - Issue 19 - 18th April 2013

• Salt Lake City opens Airport Line
• Screams on Airport Express Oslo
• Abellio wins Leipzig-Halle area franchise
• Beijing’s new airport – transportation crucial

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IARO Express - Issue 18 - 11th April 2013

• Copenhagen top
• Medan – new airport, new railway
• Charleroi airport link
• Red Line upgrade in Cleveland
• New plans for Netherlands – Brussels Airport

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IARO Express - Issue 17 - 4th April 2013

• Dallas – more funding approved
• Lucknow now?
• Riyadh progress
• Luxembourg line dropped
• Linz airport to be rail connected?

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IARO Express - Issue 16 - 28th March 2013

• Good year for CAT!
• Plans for improvements in Japan
• Gdansk Airport Railway contract let
• Phoenix people-mover to open 8 April
• UK Aviation Policy Framework

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IARO Express - Issue 15 - 21st March 2013

• News from Stockholm
• Shijiazhuang Zhengding – impressive air-rail ambitions!
• BNIA to be well connected
• Heathrow Express rebranding includes new uniforms
• Acela Express to get new fleet

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IARO Express - Issue 14 - 14th March 2013

• More tracks, more platforms for BWI
• Will Tucson – Phoenix line miss Tucson airport?
• Hartmut Mehdorn appointed CEO of Berline Brandenburg Airport
• Urumqi to get airport rail connection
• Leeds/Bradford Airport tram-train

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IARO Express - Issue 13 - 7th March 2013

•  UTA prepares for Airport TRAX Line's April 14 opening
• Qatar – Hamad Airport City
• Washington DC – Dulles connection progresses
• Cardiff Airport to be sold?
• Orlando Maglev

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IARO Express - Issue 12 - 28th February 2013

• iFlytoget
• Heathrow invests more in surface access
• EU to fund study of Cluj rail link
• Sonoma County Airport
• New trains for Minneapolis – St. Paul

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IARO Express - Issue 11 - 21st February 2013

• Union Pearson Express update
• Excellent results for Heathrow Express
• New double deck trains for Aeroexpress Moscow
• Airtrain Brisbane sold
• Ankara rail link to be studied

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IARO Express - Issue 10 - 14th February 2013

• Guarulhos Express moves forward
• EU to fund study of Liege CAREX
• Long Island Islip MacArthur airport access improvements
• Belfast International to get a rail link?
• Shanghai Hongqiao monorail

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IARO Express - Issue 9 - 7th February 2013

• Delhi Metro Airport Express back in service
• FYRA service temporarily suspended
• Improvements at Arlanda
• Washington DC – Silver Line energised
• Hiawatha continues to set records 

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IARO Express - Issue 8 - 31st January 2013

• UK High Speed 2 and Airports
• Calls for Stansted Express upgrade
• EU to fund Malpensa Terminal 2 link study
• Maglev for Orlando
• Trains for Orlando
• Singapore to double size of metro network

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IARO Express - Issue 7 - 24th January 2013

• A fourth airport for Moscow?
• 2012 traffic at European Airports
• Manchester Airport Group acquires London Stansted
• Astana to get an airport railway by 2017
• Innovative apm for Porto Alegre
• Funding for Northrail link cancelled

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IARO Express - Issue 6 - 17th January 2013

• Rail link and international terminal for Melbourne 2
• Bangkok’s Airport Express services to be increased
• Trondheim service to be electrified
• Railway reform in Spain.
• Boston plans better links

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IARO Express - Issue 5 - 10th January 2013

• Macquarie Bank buys Stansted Express Trains
• Metro to Guarulhos to open 2014
• Skavsta to be on new Swedish high speed line
• Heathrow Express fares from January 2013.
• Honolulu system gets full funding grant agreement

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IARO Express - Issue 4 - 3rd January 2013

• Frecciarossa to Malpensa has ended
• Vinci buys ANA
• Abuja – work re-starts
• Debrecen to get rail link
• Air France to offer high speed train links on Strasbourg-Paris route

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IARO Express - Issue 3 - 20th December 2012

• Sydney’s transport infrastructure.
• EU funding for Northern Hub
• Funding for DART extension to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport 
• Hong Kong MTR appoints European operations director

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IARO Express - Issue 2 - 13th December 2012

• Virgin to compete with itself on UK domestic routes
• MARC – record punctuality.
• Newcastle upgrades ticketing.
• Osaka airports prepare for privatisation
• Sao Paulo Guarulhos Airport launches bid for rail link

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IARO Express - Issue 1 - 6th December 2012

• Thalys to serve Dusseldorf Airport from 9 December
• Fyra begins full service
• New York East Side Access Progress
• Construction of Sofia Airport metro extension begins
• London Stansted launches rail vision

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IARO Express - Issue 453 - 30th December 0000

• Ontario Airport connections
• Night Tube restarts on 27 November – but not to Heathrow
• Luxembourg airport tram extension work starts
• Bengalaru airport link funding
• More on Hydroflex II

And…Photos from Gatwick’s work in progress

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