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Inter airport Europe 2025 announces winners of 25th Edition Innovation Awards
Inter airport Europe 2025 honoured the winners of its 25th Edition Innovation Awards in Munich, celebrating pioneering technologies and transformative achievements driving innovation across the global airport industry.
The 25th Edition Innovation Awards of inter airport Europe 2025 were announced during a special ceremony held last night at Messe München, honouring the most innovative achievements and transformative technologies across the global airport sector.
Now in its milestone year, the Innovation Awards spotlight excellence, creativity, and collaboration driving progress in airport operations, passenger experience, and sustainability. The selection process combines public voting with expert evaluation by the inter airport Europe Advisory Board, ensuring that winners represent the highest standards of innovation and practical impact.
The 2025 Innovation Award winners
- Sustainability Innovation Award: S4GA – for its Solar CAT I Airfield Lighting System, fully powered by solar energy.
- Terminal Excellence Award: Outsight – for its Spatial Intelligence Platform, enhancing passenger flow management.
- Smart Airport & AI Innovation Award: Leonardo SpA – for its Bag Check AI, a morphological baggage analyzer.
- Ground Support Achievement Award: TK Airport Solutions S.A. – for Max Automate, a system enabling fully remote operation and centralized monitoring of Passenger Boarding Bridges.
- 25th Edition Impact Award: ADB SAFEGATE – for launching multiple new products at this year’s event and its long-term contribution to airport innovation.
- Product Launch of the Year: Imenco – for the FuelSCAN Analyzer.
Presenting the awards, Syreeta Tranfield, Event Director of inter airport Europe, commended the industry’s ongoing innovation and commitment to progress: “Our 25th Edition Innovation Awards are one of the highlights of the show because they allow us to celebrate world-class, innovative achievements across the sector. It has been incredible to see so many exciting developments. I would like to thank all the companies who took the time to enter. There is no shortage of innovation and development across every segment of the airport sector. This is an industry that does not stand still. Congratulations to our winners who are making great contributions to the future of our industry – we applaud them for their excellence.”
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A benchmark for airport innovation
The Innovation Awards remain a defining feature of inter airport Europe, reflecting how technological advancement continues to transform every aspect of the airport ecosystem—from ground handling and terminal management to energy efficiency and digitalisation.
As the global aviation industry faces rapid change, the award-winning solutions showcased in Munich highlight how smart technologies and sustainability-driven design are shaping the next generation of airports.
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