Digital technology has ensured that the world has become a much smaller place. This has made it much easier for any person to start a competitive business. However, it has also boosted the array of places that need to be visited to ensure customer satisfaction. The result is a need for great travel entrepreneurs. Instead […]
Budapest Airport Ferihegy
The security status of Hungary‘s only major international airport, Budapest Ferihegy, has been downgraded to “unclear” following an EU audit, the government’s aviation commissioner Attila Marton said last week. Image via Wikipedia Among a dozen points on which Ferihegy failed to comply with an EU directive that came into force in April, several objects that […]
Emirates … more flights to India
Image via Wikipedia DUBAI: After bringing to India the double decker Airbus A-380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft, Emirates Airlines is looking at expanding its operations in the booming country which is considered by the firm as its second biggest hub after Dubai. “India is a very big market which has a lot of potential […]
Air Passenger Rights! EU Law!
This Regulation applies to: passengers departing from an airport located in the territory of a Member State to which the EC Treaty applies; and passengers departing from an airport located in a third country to an airport situated in the territory of a Member State to which the EC Treaty applies, On condition that […]
Compensation ala EasyJet
Image via Wikipedia Stranded at Gatwick Airport last night because of a first delayed than more delayed and than finally canceled flight to Barcelona Friday evening. I received the following compensation offer: Choice one: If I accept to fly Sunday evening Easyjet would pay the transfer to the hotel and the two nights hotel accommodation. […]
EASYJET: Disaster at Gatwick Airport 02 July!
Image via Wikipedia London Gatwick Airport 2July 2010 My flight with Easyjet to Barcelona is scheduled for 19;05 I left my Hotel room in good time so I will have no problem, no rushing, no stress. I went through security only to find out that on the departure screen there was: 19:05h Gate opens […]
The United States does not have a security system; it has a system for bothering people
TSA “theatre” flying in turbulent skies American airline passengers are coping with increased security and added airline hassles by flying less. In fact: • Scheduled US passenger traffic on airlines dropped 5.5 percent last year, and 3.1 percent worldwide, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization. • That decline was the largest on record. It’s […]
Checkpoint intruder shuts down Newark Airport terminal
A man who walked into a secure area triggered a terminal-wide lockdown at Newark Liberty International Airport last night, grounding outgoing planes and forcing hundreds of passengers to await rescreening, transportation authorities said. The incident occurred nine days after a failed terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound plane heightened tensions at the nation’s airports and increased […]