Everyone talks about AI like it’s a silver bullet. But for airports facing rising passenger numbers, aging infrastructure, and increasing complexity, AI won’t solve problems that leadership isn’t bold enough to confront. Many airport leaders underestimate what it...
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Future Airports
Rethinking your Business Model – The Future of Airport Development
At „Passenger Terminal Expo“ in Madrid in April 2025 I attended an insightful talk on the use of AI at Airports. An Amazon and a Microsoft executives shared their view on how airports approach this topic. The room was packed, AI is on everyone’s mind in the...
Changing Paradigms: German airports can no longer build their way out of efficiency problems
6 years ago in March 2019, I published my LinkedIn article “Agility – the biggest challenge for German airports”. It described ongoing operational disruptions due to “Wachstums-Schmerzen” (“Growth-Pain”… German for the pain children or companies might experience from...


