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Gold was stolen at Miami International Airport (Photo from Wikipedia) 0

This week: Miami gold heist, Caro strike, Newark belly landing & supercar at Bologna

This week has been one with a wide diversity of airport stories. We received news about a gold heist, a landing gone “belly up”, a

May 41, 2013 Africa, Airports, Americas ...
No Harvey Milk SFO 0

This week: No Harvey Milk SFO, Abu Dhabi’s sleep pods & more

It’s been another busy airport week with stories pouring in from all corners of the world. It’s equally been a busy week here at LateDeparture

May 10, 2013 Airports, Americas, Europe ...
George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston 0

This week: Houston’s shooting, Gatwick’s explosion and Turkey’s Justin Bieber

Righty, let’s see what this week brought in regards to airport related news stories. Understandingly there still seems to be quite some nervousness at airports

May 19, 2013 Airports, Americas, Europe ...
Continued discussions over U.S. infrastructure spendings Comments Off

This week: Post-Boston issues, U.S. infrastructure discussion and more

We’ve seen a rather weird 7 days this week as only small news articles trickled into our newsroom. Most articles contained news of either some

April 45, 2013 Airports, Europe, In the News ...
Boston's Logan Airport (Source Wikipedia) 0

This week: Boston horror, Chavez gets airport & future US airport delays

Well, well, well – what an eventful week this one was, huh? Without doubt Boston was the focus of this week’s general news coverage which

April 30, 2013 Airports, Americas, Europe ...
2013 Skytrax World Airport Awards 0

This week: world’s best airport, 500 flights cancelled and a VIP’s African troubles

It’s been a rather busy week in airport news-land: There was an award given out to the best airport of the world, a storm cancelled

April 25, 2013 Africa, Airports, Americas ...
Berlin builds an airport 0

This week: Berlin builds airport, Denmark has wayfinding app & more

We’re back from our little break and have quite a number of interesting stories from the past week or so. Three stories come from Europe

April 14, 2013 Airports, Europe, In the News ...
The European Commission sets for better passenger rights 0

This week: Better passenger rights, Bolivian name dispute and more

Nope, we haven’t forgotten about our dear readers, but we have to admit that we did get so busy, that last week’s airport update just

March 24, 2013 Airports, Americas, Asia ...
Sao Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport (Photo from Wikipedia) 0

This week: Brazil is definitely ready for World Cup. Maybe.

This week turned out to be an “all American continent news week”. Sure, there were updates from outside this land mass, but none of those

March 20, 2013 Airports, Americas, In the News ...
Chicken causes power failure at a Hawaii airport 0

This week: chicken causes power failure, no lights out for Berlin

This week started with us becoming a little (more?) famous as Singapore’s Strait Times wrote about our little airport-only trip in their Sunday issue. Aside

March 40, 2013 Airports, Americas, Europe ...