Picture this: you’ve followed our guides and had a great time at your departure airport and your flight was on time. Then you get to your destination and realise you have absolutely no idea how to get into the city. Rings a bell? There’s now a website that can help you out: Cityhook
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Yep, it’s that time of the week again: we’ve got your summary of the past week’s airport news ready for you. This time we have, as almost every week, some strike news, however this week they come from two different countries. Then there’s an elderly couple’s long trip back from the airport and – drum roll – there’s more.
Continue reading This week: a 20-hour airport drive, JetBlue expansion & more
It was a semi-busy airport week, this one. But, as always, it depends how you actually define “busy”. Surely the news kept flowing in in similar rates, but we didn’t see as much drama as in previous weeks. We think, that’s a good thing, of course. We still managed to find you some real jewels though. Let’s call them out: fog, strike, staff training and an airport sell out – sounds interesting?
Continue reading This week: an unusual auction, fog and strike
Well, of course it happens when I’m away without access to my computer: the site goes down. My sincere apologies for the disruption – it seems like one of the WordPress plugins has caused the crash. I’m still investigating which one, so please bear with me while I’m fixing this issue asap. Let’s move on and focus on some of the important and interesting, airport related news from the past few days. I’ve got a nice, mixed bag of goodies for you!
Continue reading This week: Berlin disappoints with a 9 month delay and more
Well, well, well, how should we say it? We actually only have one topic this week: London Heathrow (LHR) and its immigration queues. Yes, okay, there were other stories this week too, e.g. a new terminal at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (ATL) that had some early passenger testing done for its new $1.4 billion terminal but of them got totally overshadowed by a full week of London Heathrow airport twists, turns and a not so politically correct celebrity comment.
Continue reading This week: London Heathrow’s big week of shambles
Well, well, we have all the ingredients for a very juicy airport news round-up this week: there are babies and puppies as main actors, for locations with have our favourite spots Heathrow and New York plus there’s also a little side story just to get things rolling on a number of levels.
Continue reading This week: puppy delays departures, baby closes terminal – really!
This week has been a mixed news bag kind of week. We saw some disruptions (England), some new additions (India), a growing debate (Australia) and some new, old winners (Austria). Let’s resolve the riddle by going straight into the first piece.
Continue reading This week: Emergency at Gatwick, Sydney’s new airport & more
It was this time of the year again when the World’s Best Airports are named at the annual Skytrax World Airport Awards. Last Year Hong Kong won the trophy, this year it was South Korea’s Incheon International Airport (IATA: ICN). It’s boring as the overall winner always seems to be either Hong Kong (HKG), Singapore (SIN) or, well, Incheon. At least this was true over the past years.
Continue reading Seoul’s Incheon wins Airport of Year Award 2012 – yawn!
The Netherland’s largest airport, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (IATA: AMS) surely likes to innovate through new passenger offerings – remember that awesome banner vending machine for example? Today it informed us of a newly launched multimedia bus tour that provides a behind-the-scenes look of the airport.
Continue reading Amsterdam offers behind the scenes airport tour
Easter is finally here and with that all the usual airport delays. All of them? Not so much! Travellers of the British Stansted Airport (IATA: STN) got off with a slap on the wrist as the announced baggage handler’s strike was called off. Nevertheless, we found a few (other) interesting stories in the lead-up to the long weekend.
Continue reading This week: Tornadoes, an April’s Fool’s prank gone wrong & more
