Category: Airports
Airport workers plan disruptions in nine U.S. cities on MLK Day
BY-LUZ LAZO: Workers from nine U.S. airports are planning to block bridges, march through terminals and protest at airline headquarters during a day of civil disobedience on Martin Luther King […]
Inside the world’s most dangerous airport
BY-Ammu Kannampilly: FLYING into Nepal’s Lukla airport — the gateway to Mount Everest — demands courage and precision, thanks to its tiny, treacherous runway perched on a steep cliff. For […]
Egypt airport security: UK experts focus on three areas
BY-Peter Beaumont: Efforts by a specialist British team of aviation security and military experts to help improve security at Sharm el-Sheikh airport are focusing on three issues – the security of […]
Ten Abandoned Airports Around The World – Welcome To The Twilight Zone
Humans are notorious for building things and using them for a period and then leaving them behind to build something new. There are many reasons we do this. Economic changes […]
Woman dies just before flight
By-Catherine Gaffaney: An 81-year-old Fijian woman who died of a suspected heart attack at Auckland International Airport this morning was in “good spirits” when a family member dropped her off. The […]
What Happens If Someone Dies on a Flight?
By-Arlene Fleming: It happens infrequently, but it does happen several times a year - someone dies on board a flight or in the airport. I have heard anecdotally from a […]
New world class airport terminal
BY-Geoffrey Thomas: The most spectacular part of the billion-dollar upgrade of Perth Airport — the T1 Domestic Terminal — will open on November 22 and promises to transform passengers’ travel […]
Oops! Airport greets arriving fliers with porn
By-Ben Mutzabaugh: An X-rated film began playing on the TV screens in the baggage area in the wee hours of Monday morning, leaving little to the imagination for travelers standing nearby. […]
The airport terminal designed to make you look down, not up
By Lidz-Ama Appiah: Tokyo, Japan 30 million passengers — by any airport’s standards, that’s a lot of people. A lot of bags to check in, mouths to feed and customers to […]