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 [...]

Lufthansa Launches Mumbai-Munich Direct Flights

Premier German airline Lufthansa is launching a direct flight service between Mumbai and Munich. Lufthansa also plans to introduce new non-stop flights between Pune and Frankfurt starting at the beginning of July. India eNews reports that with introduction of this new service, Lufthansa will become the first and only airline operating between Mumbai and Munich [...]

Munich Airport Experiences Passenger Volume Growth

Munich Airport, considered to be the best in Europe and fourth best worldwide, is experiencing strong growth in 2008. The total number of incoming and outgoing passengers has reached 7.7 million for the first quarter of this year. When compared to the same period last year, that means a 6.5 percent growth in terms of [...]

Germany Drops Massive Train Project

The German government has discarded a project to build the second fastest and longest rail link after Shangai, China, in Munich. The possible cause of the scrap is the unpredicted rise in the estimated cost of the project. Initially put at $1.85 billion, the project rose to $3 billion a year later. According to Gadling, [...]