Archive for the 'Airports' Category

Choose O’Hare International And Feel At Ease

Have you ever flown to Chicago? If you have, you probably landed at O’Hare International Airport.
Chicago O’Hare International Airport was built during World War II and is now the main airport in Chicago. Today it is the center of the world’s commercial aircraft and is a major air transportation hub.
It is currently one of the [...]

Modern Airports Offer Many Modern Facilities

Today airline passengers can cover distances within a few hours. Just a century ago, it would have taken weeks of travel by boat or other means.
Nowadays more and more people are traveling. The airports are becoming increasingly overcrowded. Traffic and passenger numbers are both acceptable methods of determining the busiest airports. Some of the busiest [...]

Laptops Lost At Airports

Nowadays it seems like security systems are delivering high level services everywhere, protecting the possessions of customers and employees.
However, strange as it may sound, airports are not that protected, as many of the largest and medium-sized U.S. airports have recently reported the loss of approximately 637,000 laptops each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey [...]

American Airlines Improve Flight Services

It’s a common sight in airports, sleepy-faced travelers waiting on a flight, which has been most likely delayed. Travelers have become accustomed to waiting these monotonous hours because flight delays have previously been a commonplace feature in airline service. Things, however, might be looking up, according to the latest statistics. So you might want to [...]

Najaf Airport In Iraq

Nowadays airline carriers are struggling to do whatever they can to keep their customer base, never mind increasing it. Unfortunately most of these companies are met with the realization of workforce cuts and for some, even bankruptcy.
Despite the rising oil prices and the job cuts that have lately become a natural phenomenon for the many [...]

Beijing’s New Airport Terminal Opening This Week

Beijing today opened a new $3.6 billion massive glass-and-steel airport terminal which will welcome all the visitors for Olympics 2008.
The airport will house 64 Western and Chinese restaurants, 90 retail shops, and a state-of-the-art-baggage handling system. The airport will also provide a high-speed commuter train which will transport passengers into the city quickly.
The new terminal [...]

Virgin America Seeks Chicago O’Hare Approval

The California-based airline that reinvented air travel, Virgin America, is hoping to get government approval to serve Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Less than a week ago, Virgin America was to file an application to serve O’Hare under the existing demand management rules of the airport.
PRNewswire reports that Virgin America is the best financed new airline [...]

Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport To Close

Berlin’s historic Tempelhof airport will close for good on 31 October 2008 after a referendum failed to attract enough voters to keep it open. Only 21.7 percent of the 2.4 million eligible voters were in favor of keeping the airport open.
Built in 1923, Berlin’s historic Tempelhof airport is capable of accommodating 1.5 million passengers a [...]

Laguindingan International Airport Development Project

The Project Management Team of the Laguindingan Airport Development Project (LADP) is in the last stage of the pre-qualification process and will soon announce qualified bidders for the project. The project to build the Laguindingan International Airport has been in the planning stage since the 1990s.
According to What’s Up In The Philippines, the Laguindingan International [...]