VINCI Airports through its subsidiary Aerodom, which signed a concession contract for six of the country’s airports in 2016, including the Las Américas international airport serving the capital Santo Domingo obtained a 30 year extension of the existing contract, which was initially set to run until 2030. On top of a $775 million payment to the government of the Dominican Republic, Aerodom will invest $830 million in the six airports over the life of the concession, including $250 million to build a new terminal at Las Américas in Santo Domingo. The six airports welcomed 6.6 million passengers in 2023.
As part of its concession contracts, VINCI Airports invests in projects leveraging its expertise in programme management. Alongside works to modernise its airports, increase their capacity and improve service quality, it systematically develops solutions to reduce their environmental footprint.
In Latin America, after launching operations at the new international terminal at Santiago airport in Chile in 2022, VINCI Airports opened the new arrivals area at the domestic terminal in December 2023. This project was the first stage in a renovation and extension programme, which is scheduled for completion in 2025. Altogether, the airport’s capacity will be increased from 16 million passengers, when the concession contract entered into force in 2016, to 38 million passengers on completion of works, which will then have covered almost 400,000 sq. metres of buildings. In Brazil, VINCI Airports has held the concession contract for Salvador Bahia airport since 2017 and, since 2022, for seven airports operated by Concessionária dos Aeroportos da Amazônia in northern regions of the country. Modernisation works commenced in 2023 at the Boa Vista airport to double the area of its passenger terminal.
In Japan, 2023 saw the end of a new extension phase and the opening of the international terminal at Kansai airport, taking its capacity from 23 million to 40 million passengers in the run-up to the Osaka World Expo in 2025. Created based on VINCI Airports’ design-by-mood concept, the new spaces offer travellers a unique retail experience, featuring the most prestigious luxury brands and the first DIOR Café, created in collaboration with Michelin-starred chef Anne-Sophie Pic.
In Serbia, VINCI Airports continued with modernisation works at Belgrade airport, including expansion of a terminal, upgrading the existing runway and building a second one. The airport, which reported record traffic of 7.9 million passengers in 2023, aims to become an air travel hub for Eastern Europe. In the United Kingdom, a £100-million investment plan spread over five years for the Belfast international airport covers complete renovation of installations and construction of a new security building. In Portugal, where in 2023 VINCI Airports celebrated its 10th anniversary of operations through its subsidiary ANA, the company holding the concession for the country’s 10 main airports until 2063, a project to build a new terminal was launched at the airport on the island of Porto Santo, located north-east of Madeira.
These operations also include where the configuration of the airport allows installation of solar farms, in accordance with the environmental policy rolled out by VINCI Airports over the whole of its network (see below).
Through its proactive policy towards airline companies, VINCI Airports has helped them reintroduce or create new routes in response to the strong recovery in demand. Over the year, four connections to India were opened from London Gatwick airport, together with new flights within the VINCI Airports network, such as Santo Domingo to Santiago airport in Chile (with Arajet), and Belgrade to Porto (Air Serbia). Ryanair reopened a base at Belfast airport, from where it operates more than 140 flights a week on 16 routes to other cities in the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
VINCI Airports works continuously over the whole of its network to increase the efficiency of its operations and make the travel experience smoother, safer and more enjoyable for passengers. This year again, the results of this approach earned several distinctions. Belgrade airport in Serbia, Porto in Portugal, Guanacaste in Costa Rica and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic were ranked best airports in their respective regions by Airports Council International (ACI), a global benchmark for airport service quality. In France, Lyon-Saint Exupéry airport earned a four-star rating in the 2023 Skytrax World Airport Awards, putting it in the top three French airports. Osaka airport in Japan (rated No. 1 worldwide by the Official Airline Guide) and Salvador Bahia in Brazil (first place in the Cirium ranking in the 5 to 15 million passengers a year category), were singled out for their on-time performance.
40 millionspassengers: the capacity of the new international terminal at Kansai International airport in Osaka.
