America is the land of opportunity and freedom, right? In many ways that’s definitely still true: You’re free to drive anywhere, you’re free to express your opinion (that guy in the subway did exactly that with the full force of his adult voice) or you can still make it big in business whatever background you have. And certainly for consumers, freedom also applies to the country’s economy. There’s hardly another place where you have so many choices – be it the type and brand of mineral water you can drink, the breakfast cereals you prefer or the airline you choose to cross this vast country with.
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This week: Spanish ghost airport up for grabs, snowy owls at JFK & more
This week is the second last week of our airport news reviews in 2013 before we take a – what we think – well deserved break. Let’s look at what we found this week then:
- Spanish ghost airport up for sale
- Southeast England airport issues
- Terror plot to bomb airport stopped
- Snowy owls at JFK
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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:
- Smog in China closes airport
- Loaded rifle found in checked luggage at JFK
- Rowdy passengers in Florida
- Federal shutdown costs airport 1st week of flights
- Self-service security checks being developed
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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:
- Korean Air’s late departure from Dallas
- Atlanta’s second airport in the making?
- Cardiff’s tyre burst
- JFK to host farmer’s market at T5
- Chinese Airports: then and now
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This week: Radioactive material unclaimed at Indian airport & more
Did you know that we go through airport related news at least once a day? Those news articles that we find worthy to share then get tweeted out to the world. And when we do these weekly news round-ups, it’s a fairly straight forward affair as we only have to go back to your own Twitter account and select the most interesting/most important stories of that week to be summarize here. Long story short, this week, we only tweeted 3 stories. So what?, you may ask. Well, this means that we were either slacking (nope, not our style!) or there just wasn’t much interesting going on in the world of airports this week. And the latter is exactly what happened.
So whilst we could have tweeted about a new breast feeding station at a U.S. Airport, Edinburgh airport’s success of attracting 1 Million passengers or Lady Gaga’s flamboyant arrival at Heathrow this week – we chose not to. Why? Well, frankly we didn’t see those stories being of global importance. Grey area with Lady Gaga maybe, but then we recently had plenty gossip weeks already. We’re not the Daily Mirror after all.
So, what are those world moving stories you found this week, you may want to know at this stage. Here they are:
- Radioactive material unclaimed for five years at Indian airport
- Malaysian airport besieged with delays
- Baggage handlers arrested at New York airport
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This week: Strikes at Mexico City airport, Singapore’s expansion plans & more
Five topics crystallized from the seabed of airport related news this week, here they are:
- Striking teachers block access to Mexico City airport
- Virgin Atlantic passengers stranded
- Singapore’s airport expansion
- World’s fanciest airport lounges
- Conveyor belt art at Japanese Airports
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This week: Bomb set off in Beijing, turtels discovered in India & more
It’s already Sunday here in Australia and with that time again for our weekly updates. This week we have the following topics for you
- Bomb set off at Beijing airport
- Turtles found in luggage in India
- Man dies after heart attack at JFK
- Gatwick’s survival guide
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This week: Snowden in Moscow, missing cash from Swiss plane & more
This week one airport beat all other in terms of number of times it got mentioned in the media. It’s of course Moscow Airport, currently caught in the middle of the continuation of a thrilling U.S. spy story. But first, here’s our overview of this week’s news:
- Snowden’s late departure in Russia
- Missing cash from Swiss plane
- Hightech luggage tag from BA
- New LAX terminal preview
- Fluffy airport friends
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This week: Group to safe Pan Am JFK terminal, BBC live from Heathrow
This week has certainly been an airport themed week for the United Kingdom with one of its TV stations focusing on a 4-day live show from its biggest airport. But of course we spotted other interesting airport related news from around the world as well. Here’s what we have for this week in our overview:
- BBC’s Airport live from Heathrow
- The fight to save an old terminal at JFK
- Malaysia’s budget airport terminal launch is delayed
- Stansted announced terminal revamp
- Airport in cost hike ‘error’
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This week: The French strike, the Aussies block and the Americans build barrier
Another week has almost past and it’s therefore time for our weekly airport news round-up. This week we have the following headlines for you:
- French airport strikes
- Taxi blockade in Melbourne
- Airbus invents smart baggage
- Egypt Air makes emergency landing in Scotland
- JFK creates turtle barrier
- Old Hong Kong airport reopens, but not as an airport
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