Category Archives: Americas

Airports, Americas, Asia, Europe, In the News, Weekly

This week: Thanksgiving, China’s $1B airport flop, e-ciggies at LHR

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Okay, we’re late again. But surely you can forgive us this week after all that Turkey we had to eat. Hang on a minute, you say, aren’t you guys based in Australia? Correct, but we’ve got so many followers from the USA, we’re bound to talk turkey! Anyhow, here are our airport topics from this (errr, last) week:

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Airports, Americas, Asia, Europe, In the News, Weekly

This week: Dreamlifter landed at wrong airport, LAX security scare & more

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Another week has passed and it’s therefore our job to once again recap some of the main airport news articles from the week. This week we have the following for you:

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Airports, Americas, Europe, In the News, Weekly

This week: Boris island airports’ next chapter revealed & more

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We’ve got a late departure ourselves this week since our update is published day later than usual. Well, even we aren’t faultless, hey? Here’s what we have for you from this week’s airport news around the world:

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Americas, Various

Infographic: Airport Confidential – Curious facts about American airports

This infographic was sent to us from our friends at Venere.com. We thought it’s well worth sharing with our loyal readers.

From conspiracy theories involving secret cities, aliens and hidden messages to surprising animal residents and buried treasure, America’s airports are a wealth of mysteries and unique fixtures.

Airport Confidential Infographic

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Airports, Americas, Europe, In the News, Weekly

This week: Alligator found at Chicago, Fire in Montreal & ‘street view’ for Gatwick

Another week has passed and we’re back on with our weekly airport news round-up. This week we have the following topics for you

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Airlines, Airports, Americas, Europe, In the News, Middle East, Weekly

This week: Shooting at LAX, wild UK weather & more

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OMG, that wasn’t a good airport week in terms of news types that came in. It already started mixed with wild UK weather overshadowing the opening of Dubai’s newest airport but it all went pear-shaped with Friday’s shooting at LAX. Here is the full list of our topics for his week, in chronological order:

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Airports, Americas, Asia, In the News, Weekly

This week: Smog closes airport, rowdy passengers in Florida & more

This week’s been another one that was dominated by airport news coming from the United States. We managed to find one or two from other parts of the world too though, here are our topics for this week:

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Airports, Americas, Europe, In the News, Oceania, Weekly

This week: Dry ice bomb at LAX, Kangaroo at Melbourne & more

The talk of this week certainly was the dry ice bomb at LAX. It’s therefore not surprising we’re also going to focus on this event in this week’s airport news round-up. Here are all the topics:

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Airports, Americas, Europe, In the News, Weekly

This week: Korean Air’s late departure, Atlanta’s second airport & more

We’re back after our extensive trip through the U.S. – watch this space for some upcoming posts! But back now to our weekly airport news round-up: This week started relatively quiet and then certainly picked up the pace with interesting airport news towards the end. So, here’s what we have for you for this week:

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Airports, Americas, In the News, Oceania, Weekly

This week: Apple’s misguided airport directions, snake on Qantas plane & more

Well, well, well. In our head it seemed like a very busy airport related news week, however some news just kept re-appearing. Plus we’ve travelled ourselves, from Asia back to Australia, this week too. Both of those things initially clouded our judgement, we guess. It’s actually been a fairly quiet week. Here’s what we found:

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