TRAVEL NEWS
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Travelers in U.S. will still have to remove shoes
You will still have to take your shoes off at the airport checkpoint. The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that it had rejected the use of a General Electric shoe-scanning machine that was supposed to provide a central benefit for members of the Clear version of the Registered Traveler program: the ability to pass through security with their shoes on. The machine would instead have scanned the shoes electronically for weapons or explosives.
iht.com
iht.com
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Why Terminal 5's opening could spell a long summer of confusion
Starting next week, thousands of volunteers will be spend a day at Heathrow's new Terminal 5. In return for a free lunch and a "goody-bag", they will help test the systems at the £4.3bn project. But far from solving the airport's problems overnight, the controversial new terminal will precipitate a summer of confusion at Heathrow - and seriously diminish public transport links for millions of the users of Europe's busiest airport.
travel.independent.co.uk
travel.independent.co.uk
Labels: airport, Heathrow, Terminal 5, UK
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Beijing shows off new airport terminal
Beijing showed off its new multibillion-dollar airport terminal today - a mammoth glass and steel structure with a gracefully sloping roof that the owners said is meant to impress visitors to China's capital for the 2008 Olympics.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: airport, Beijing, China, Olympics
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
St Helena joins the jet age
Britain's last working Royal Mail ship will cease operations in 2012 when a new airport opens on the Atlantic island of St Helena.
timesonline.co.uk
timesonline.co.uk
Labels: airport, Royal Mail, St Helena
Saturday, April 21, 2007
By train to Ferihegy Airport from July
Budapest's International Airport will finally be accessible by train from July, with Máv announcing that it will build a train stop at Ferihegy 1 with an overpass to connect it with the terminal.
bbj.hu
bbj.hu
Labels: airport, Budapest, train
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Terminal 5 will be ready for lift-offs next March
Heathrow's Terminal 5 will open in one year's time to 30 million passengers, making it - without counting the rest of Heathrow - one of the 10 biggest airports in Europe .
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: airport, Heathrow, Terminal 5
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Airport parking scam exposed
A Gatwick based airport parking company has been caught driving customers cars at speeds of up to 106 mph while they were supposed to be held at a secure compound.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: airport, carpark, Gatwick
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Airlines threaten to boycott Thailand airport
More than 60 international carriers have indicated their intention to boycott flights into Thailand if they are forced to move back to the old Don Muang airport.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: airport, boy, Thailand
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Thai airport safety fears
Concerns have been raised about the safety of taxiways, and possibly the runways, at Thailand's troubled new airport, with conflicting reports about cracks found at 25 locations.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: airport, safety, Thailand
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
'UFO' spooks pilots over Chicago
A group of United Airlines employees have said they saw a saucer-shaped craft hovering over a terminal at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Friday, July 28, 2006
