It’s the end of the long Thanksgiving weekend, probably the busiest time for U.S. airports, yet we haven’t heard of too many horror delay stories this year. Maybe that’s also because there were plenty of warnings and help guides beforehand, much like our first story. BUt first, here are our topics for this week:
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This week: Icy delays in Detroit, drones at JFK & more
Last week seems to have been fairly busy in the world of airport news & delays – some of those to the annoyance of passengers. Here’s our overview of the topics we’re going to cover in this edition:
- Icy delays in Detroit
- Drone sightings at JFK airport
- The future of Newark airport
- A hotel night in an old airplane
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This week: Thanksgiving congestions predicted, Heathrow’s globe of sent & more
From a travellers perspective this week has been a near perfect one. Hardly any major delays were reported from any of the large international airports. So for once, we’re only focusing on non-delay news this week:
- Thanksgiving congestion predictions
- Heathrow’s globe of scent
- U.S. airports ranked by food & drink options
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This week: Fighter jet escorts plane to Stansted, dubious Wi-Fi & more
It’s been a rather slow week here at our LateDeparture news desk. Nonetheless, we did manage to find a few interesting airport related news articles:
- Fighter jets escort plane to Stansted Airport
- Flight delayed after dubious Wi-Fi Hotspot was found
- Homophobic passenger at Dallas airport attacks man for wearing pink shirt
- A different kind of vending machine
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This week: New York pledges to improve its airports & more
The weeks seem to just fly by, pardon the pun. So, here are our airport related news from this week in our headline overview:
- New York is fixing the airports
- Heathrow’s IT problems
- Charlotte Airport fire
- Austin Airport tracks mobile phones to measure queue time
- New Airport runway print collection announced
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This week: Islamabad named world’s worst airport & more
It’s been another airport week mainly dominated by the various reports about Ebola prevention plus a few suspected scares of passengers carrying the virus on certain flights. Here are all of our topics for this week:
- Islamabad named worst airport of 2014
- More Ebola scares & increased screenings at airports around the world
- Flight returns to SFO after cabin walls come loose
- Blackpool Airport closed after 105 years
- Bangkok’s shopping mall that imitates an airport terminal
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This week: Ebola scare hits Western airports & more
This week we’ve seen one topic pop up in airport news around Europe and the United States: Ebola. Here’s the overview of all our stories for this week:
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This week: More issues for Chicago, EU airports accused of illegal state aid & more
This week was another rather quiet airport related news week, however, one airport – Chicago – was in the news several times this week. Here are the focus stories we found for you this time:
- Chicago’s tough week
- Two EU airports ordered to repay illegal state aid
- Newark Ebola case denied
- Google Glass under trial at Edinburgh Airport
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This week: Evacuation in Chicago, back-to-back emergency landings at DFW & more
It’s been one of the more quiet weeks in the land of airport news. Generally this means less delays have occurred, which of course is a good thing. However those news we revisit this week are all of similar and slightly disturbing nature. Here they are in our overview:
- Evacuation in Chicago
- Back-to-back emergency landings at DFW airport
- Sydney Airport security breach sparks evacuation
- Dreamliner makes emergency landing in Glasgow
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This week: Explosive device forgotten at Sydney Airport, Google Airport & more
Another week is coming to and end and with that it’s time for our weekly airport news recap. Here’s what we found this week:
- Police leave explosive device in suitcase at Sydney Airport
- World’s busiest airport remains unchanged
- Google’s super efficient airport idea
- Cheater confronted by 3 girlfriends at airport
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