Julian Turner

Julian Turner is a regular feature contributor to NRI Digital's websites, covering renewable energy and growth within power markets, offshore oil drilling, and the market for new and sustainable hydrocarbons, as well as reporting on the aerospace, defence, transport and packaging industries.Julian began his career as a feature writer at IPC Media, before joining the BBC as a staff news and feature writer for the corporation's commercial web operation. In 2003, he joined News International as a sub-editor working across eight national newspaper and magazine titles, at the same time contributing features in a freelance capacity to various national publications.Julian was senior TV editor at Global Listings, a television specialist media company, before joining Progressive Digital Media in 2011 as chief sub-editor. He currently works as a sub-editor and feature writer across Global Trade Media's portfolio of international B2B titles, and contributes blogs to The New Statesman.

All articles by Julian Turner

1. Emission statement: inside London City Airport’s environmental strategy

   Tessa Simpson is head of environment and technical operations at London City Airport. She has nearly a decade of experience…
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   31 Mar
2. Are airports presenting a wide enough food and drink offering?

   Until relatively recently, few air travellers, even frequent fliers in the know, would have expected to find – or even…
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   20 Feb
3. Sonic boom: do airports need to prepare for the supersonic revolution?

   For those old enough to remember – and who lived under a flight path – the sound of Concorde passing…
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   23 Jan
4. Capital gains: Inside Gatwick Airport’s £1.1bn investment programme

   Gatwick is the UK’s second-largest airport behind Heathrow, serving 46 million passengers annually on both short and long-haul point-to-point services…
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   21 Nov
5. Euro vision: unravelling the new pan-European drone regulations

   The first recorded use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) appears to have taken place in 1839, when Austrian soldiers attacked…
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   24 Oct
6. Better by design: early proposals for Poland’s new mega-airport

   Located between Warsaw and Łódź, Poland’s new airport – Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) (In English, Solidarity Transport Hub (STH)) –…
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   17 Oct
7. Key takeaways from the Heathrow expansion preferred masterplan

   Heathrow remains the UK’s only hub airport, handling 80 million passengers and 1.5 million tonnes of cargo in 2018. Its…
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   22 Aug
8. Countering drones at airports: what are the technology options out there?

   How dangerous are drones to commercial airports and aircraft, and are current UAV mitigation and countermeasure technologies fit for purpose…
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   18 Apr
9. Reducing commercial aviation’s environmental footprint with NATS

   Ian Jopson is head of environmental and community affairs at the UK air navigation service provider NATS, where he responsible…
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   24 Jan
10. Landside security: a top airport priority

    Nathalie Herbelles is head of security at airline industry association Airports Council International (ACI), where she is the point of…
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    29 Oct