Quite clearly this week has been dominated by hurricane Sandy causing devastation over large parts of the U.S. east coast with implication for tens of thousands of travellers as well. Before we get to that, let us cover two other airport related news we picked up this week.
First we heard from our friends in New Zealand’s capital Wellington, where – according to the Guardian – a “hobbit release” with a piece measuring 13m, featuring Gollum diving for 4m fish, welcomes visitors to ‘the middle of Middle-earth’ at Wellington International Airport (WLG). The installation has been installed to celebrate the arrival of Peter Jackson’s first Hobbit film, An Unexpected Journey. It surely looks impressive:
(Photo from Wellington Airport; you can also find a video about it here)
Then there was news from Heathrow again. Good news. Yes, you heard right. The news this week was that London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR) is sprucing up Terminal 5 with a pop-up park for passengers to unwind in before their flights as reported by the Business Insider. The new indoor green space, which opened last week, is designed to serve as a relaxing area for “de-stressing” before a plane ride with grass, hedges, plants, Rosemary bushes, and benches, continued the article. It reminds us of Munich Airport’s beer garden.
Now to Sandy the Hurricane: we thought, our twitter chronology from this week illustrates the various news articles covering the devastating storm best:
Hurricane Sandy grounds thousands of flights, Newark Airport suffers most … – http://t.co/VKOHWyGF #EWR
— LateDeparture.com (@latedeparture) October 28, 2012
Hurricane Sandy path: Metro-area airports ground flights; worldwide travel affected http://t.co/o16urIYN via @NewsdayNY
— LateDeparture.com (@latedeparture) October 29, 2012
Sandy turns LaGuardia Airport into ghost town – http://t.co/ORtTE9ea #LGA
— LateDeparture.com (@latedeparture) October 30, 2012
After Sandy, canceled flights but no airport chaos – http://t.co/3dycZE8R
— LateDeparture.com (@latedeparture) October 30, 2012
JFK Joins Newark Airport Opening as Sandy Disruptions Ease – http://t.co/eCG8S36q #JFK #EWR
— LateDeparture.com (@latedeparture) October 31, 2012
Flooded LaGuardia Airport still closed in NY – http://t.co/xpNW5x1k #LGA
— LateDeparture.com (@latedeparture) October 31, 2012
LaGuardia Airport reopens on limited schedule – http://t.co/6onKi6tf #LGA
— LateDeparture.com (@latedeparture) November 1, 2012
Pretty impressive, right? We find, that for a storm of this proportion, the U.S. handled the situation very well and so did the various airports. Surely everyone will understand that cleaning up will take time and some further disruptions are inevitable.
That’s all from us from this week – safe travels everyone!
[Featured photo from Wikipedia showing hurricane Sandy photographed on 25 October 2012]
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