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The Federal Aviation Administration says a brief power outage at a Southern California airport’s air traffic control tower forced controllers to use portable radios to communicate with pilots and caused a number of flight delays. Agency spokesman Ian Gregor says the outage Sunday at John Wayne Airport in Orange County lasted a little more than [...]

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Two officials of the Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport were arrested for allegedly helping a smuggler to transport around 10,000 memory cards, estimated to be worth around Rs 20 lakh, Customs officials said today. On-duty airport managers Mahesh Bamane and Rakshit Kapoor were arrested on Monday night along with Mohammed Sayyed Hanif, who tried to smuggle [...]

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In this modern era where most of us lead a hectic life, we tend to travel a lot to cater our business requirements. Businessmen are often referred to as frequent flyers in the airline industry. If you are one among them serving the corporate world and if you do tend to travel a lot on [...]

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A team of local venders led by Atlanta-based concessionaire, The Paradies Shops, was awarded a contract to provide gifts, news, retail, food and beverages at the Long Beach Airport’s new passenger concourse once completed next year. The Long Beach City Council, on March 6, unanimously approved the new concession agreement with Paradies-Long Beach, LLC, in [...]

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The Long Beach Airport (LGB) is launching an extensive, .1 million, two-year airfield geometry study in March to start analyzing the safety, operational and financial benefits of reconfiguring the 1940s-era Daugherty Field and airport property, in conjunction with forming a “strategic plan.” The study is expected to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the airfield geometry [...]

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Frankfurt airport’s ground crew is scheduled to resume a strike over pay this morning as workers await a labor court ruling on whether they can continue their protests longer than scheduled. The Frankfurt Labor Court last night approved an application by their employer DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH, airport owner Fraport AG and Deutsche Lufthansa AG, [...]

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LONG BEACH — A surprise awaited law enforcement officials Thursday when a plane that was diverted to Long Beach after entering airspace restricted for President Barack Obama was discovered to allegedly have a haul of marijuana aboard. A pair of F-16 fighters forced the Cessna 182 aircraft to land at Long Beach Airport at 11 [...]

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Ever since business class came in to the picture every Airline Service Providers providing Business Class Flights have been competing with each other tremendously to provide the best possible services for their passengers. Nowadays, you can almost get all the features in business class that you may find in first class travel. And hence, by [...]

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Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) was ranked the third best airport in the world by the annual Airport Council International (ACI). It also received the Airport Service Quality Awards for 2011. CSIA was also rated as the second best in India, for airports handling 25-40 million passengers per annum (mmpa). The survey was conducted across [...]

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A new passenger screening program to make check in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said Wednesday. There will be no cost to eligible passengers, who would no longer have to remove their shoes and belts before they board flights. The airports include the three [...]

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