2018: airport sales, concession opportunities, main investors

Investor interest is currently concentrated on Brazil, Japan, France and Eastern Europe as the 'pipeline' of airport deals, mainly concessions and public-private partnerships to build and manage infrastructure, has dried up a little this year.

The nature of the business is that there is always a shock waiting side-stage, and right now it could be an announcement about London Gatwick Airport.

As for the investors themselves, there has been a hard core of them for the last two decades and many are still very active around the world. Some are only defined as investors in that they do not become involved in the day-to-day running of the airport, while others are fundamentally operators and bring their expertise in those activities, with the financing element a lesser part of their involvement.

This report summarises the leading operator/investors in 2018 and the location of existing and anticipated deals.

(CAPA's Global Airport Investors Database, part of the CAPA Airport Database Suite, currently lists 886 current, lapsed, anticipated and 'major' investing entities in this sector, together with a real-time 'news' section (updated daily) on developments that concern them.)