Time flies; it’s already Sunday again here in Melbourne and with that time for another weekly airport news round-up. This week we saw – surprise, surprise – more strike news (but don’t worry, it wasn’t the chocolate bunnies that went on strike…), an article about stolen goods and a pilot that freaked out mid-flight.
Continue reading This week: Easter strikes predicted & 200 thefts daily at JFK
This was an amazingly busy week in airport newsland! We found articles about the renaming of two airports, strike updates from two countries and an improvement project given the green lights. Oh and then there’s the pope too, but more about that later.
Continue reading This week: strike pairs, renaming pairs and a new runway
This week we have three news stories that have all one thing in common: the airports the articles are about are regulars of our little weekly news round-ups. We’re talking about Vancouver, Bangkok and candidate number one – drum roll please – Heathrow Airport.
Continue reading This week: Vancouver wins, Bangkok loses and London is in question
In a recent CNN interview Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said that airports have become unnecessary shopping centers run by rich airports. Being the CEO of an ultra low cost carrier, he certainly has an interest in seeing airports become a lot more cost efficient. Then cost efficiency wasn’t a key element of a design contest for the future of airports that recently announced the spectacular winning designs.
This is going to be fun, as we have another one of our rivalry reports between Heathrow and Gatwick. And this week it’s all about the luggage which went right for one and oh so wrong for the other; more about that in a few paragraphs.
Continue reading This week: More London rivalry and Hawaiian welcome gone wrong
Righty-o, as we say here in down-under, let’s get this show on the road. This week we have airport news from across the globe for you: There’s the closure of an Asian airport’s terminal building, a computer glitch in Europe, Sweden’s suspicious bag and a police chase down an active airport runway in the US.
Continue reading This week: an airport runway car chase & more
It’s been one of those odd weeks where one particular news story just didn’t go away; more about that later. In other news we found bits and pieces from the US (this time San Francisco and Denver made the cut) as well as our almost surely reoccurring news from England.
Continue reading This week: Strong winds, strikes and a wheelchair bomb scare
We love innovation and particularly – surprise, surprise – airport innovation. This one here was sent to us from a very attentive reader who discovered a story about a new way of overlaying digital flight information onto a binocular display at an airport observation deck. The story gets even better as the case study is based on an art installation at Zurich Airport (IATA: ZRH), one of our “like” airports in Europe.
Continue reading Airport Innovation: Augmented Reality Binoculars
What a busy airport week this one was again! We’ve got more strikes albeit this week from a different European country, a culinary feast about to be unveiled in the UK, Chinese turtles and a couple of “interesting” stories from the US of A. So let’s get started right away!
Continue reading This week: Jamie’s Gatwick, 79 turtles, and German strikes
This is a guestblog by Dana Rasmussen who writes about private jets for JetCharters.com, a worldwide air charter marketplace. Jet Charters makes booking your next air charter easier by allowing you to research trip options and connect directly with the charter operator.
It’s ski season and just about everyone with a need to take to the slopes is heading out to Vail.
Some of these people are going the more traditional route by getting onboard a commercial airliner, while others opt for a classier way.
These people are the ones that charter a private jet.
Continue reading Guestblog: Private jet vs commercial airliner- a journey of comparison
