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This week: Post-Boston issues, U.S....

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 post-Boston-explosion nervousness or smaller airport incidents from around the world...

April 28, 2013 Airports, Europe, In the News ...
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Brunei International Airport: about to grow

Where the hack is Brunei, you might ask? You’re excused as he country is one of the smaller ones, hence exactly knowing where it is might not be everyone’s geography forte. So let us put our teacher’s voice on and

April 24, 2013 Airports, Asia, Reviews ...
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This week: Boston horror, Chavez gets airport...

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 had a massive spill-over into the transport section as well. But we wouldn’t be LateDeparture...

April 21, 2013 Airports, Americas, Europe ...
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This week: world’s best airport, 500...

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 nearly 500 flights in a U.S. city and a VIP got stripped of their status

April 14, 2013 Africa, Airports, Americas ...
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This week: Berlin builds airport, Denmark has...

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 and one from the Middle East. The U.S., normally dominant on airport related stories is

April 07, 2013 Airports, Europe, In the News ...
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This week: Better passenger rights, Bolivian name...

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 didn’t quite happen – as you might have noticed. So this week, we’ll do a

March 24, 2013 Airports, Americas, Asia ...
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This week: Brazil is definitely ready for World...

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 passed our curator’s strict criteria (apparently)

March 10, 2013 Airports, Americas, In the News ...
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Guest post: An Enjoyable Time at the Airport?...

Even frequent fliers get fed up with airports, but there are ways to make your experience a little brighter. When you can’t get to a luxury hotel—and have to stay put at the airport—trying to find ways to keep you

March 07, 2013 Airports
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This week: chicken causes power failure, no...

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 from that it was an average airport related news week. We found news from Berlin,...

March 04, 2013 Airports, Americas, Europe ...
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This week: airport heist, budget cuts, fog and...

It’s been a massive week for airport related news. Unless you live under a rock, you probably heard of the airport heist in Belgium. However, aside from this biggie there were also other interesting news from airports in New Delhi,

February 24, 2013 Airports, Americas, Europe ...