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The Queen officially opened Heathrow Airport's Terminal 2, Copenhagen Airport successfully trialed Google Glass, while Neptec Technologies' laser scanners were selected for an airport safety project in Germany. Airport-technology.com wraps-up the key headlines from June 2014. Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh officially opened London Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 2 in the UK.

The United Kingdom's hub airport Heathrow is set to open the newly redeveloped Terminal 2 in June 2014 marking the completion of an £11bn ($13.4bn) investment programme initiated in 2003. The programme aims to modernise and expand the airport that has been in operation since 1955.

The UK's London Heathrow Airport opened its newly redeveloped Terminal 2 in June 2014, marking the completion of an £11bn ($13.4bn) investment programme initiated in 2003. The programme aimed at the modernisation and expansion of the airport that has been in operation since 1955.

Estimates from the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) say that passenger traffic will grow 7.2 percent in Latin America this year. Chile and Peru are set to be the leaders with 7.8 percent growth rate. IATA also predicts that the gains for Latin American airlines will maintain on US$ 100 million in 2012. Brazil, because of its economic performance and huge population, will have an 7.5 percent increase in airport traffic and is going to be a highlight in the market. The Heathrow airport in London saw a growth of 89 percent in flights to the country

Airports across the UK are still on high alert after Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey became the first person to be diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on UK soil. We ask Professor Paul Cosford, director for health protection and medical director for Public Health England, if screening procedures at Heathrow and other UK hubs are sufficiently robust to protect passengers and staff.

Airports across the UK are still on high alert after Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey became the first person to be diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on UK soil. We ask Professor Paul Cosford, director for health protection and medical director for Public Health England, if screening procedures at Heathrow and other UK hubs are sufficiently robust to protect passengers and staff.

The UK's Heathrow Airport recorded revenues of £1.97m, representing an 8.2% increase in the first nine months of 2014, while the US tightened restrictions on passengers travelling from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, who can now only enter the country through one of the five airports screening for the disease.

The smooth, staggered launch of Heathrow's new Terminal 2 applied lessons learned from the debacle of the T5 opening. The Queen's Terminal was opened with little fanfare and a gentle ramping up of operations, a strategy that lacks PR dazzle but has proven essential to an airport under pressure to get it right.