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Porter looks to add longer distance flights from Toronto island
Porter Airlines wants to extend the main runway at Toronto island’s Billy Bishop Airport so it can accommodate the Bombardier CS100 jets the company plans on buying. The airline must get government approval for the extension and also needs a ban on jets using the airport overturned. If Porter gets what it’s asking for it would allow the company to operate longer distance flights out Billy Bishop. If approved Porter has plans to add more than a dozen new destinations including Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, LA [Read more...]
Continue reading...Oregon gets presidential
3. July 2012
Medford, Oregon is about 2,800 miles from Washington D.C. but they share a rather unique connection, an oval office. I'm sure many of you are familiar with the Oval Office in D.C., it's located in the White House and a certain high-ranking person works there.
Continue reading...Las Vegas’ McCarran International set to open new terminal
26. June 2012
Tomorrow Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport opens its new terminal, the $2.4 billion Terminal 3. The terminal is the "most-comprehensive expansion" in the airports 64-year history according to airport directors. Among the new features for passengers in Terminal 3 will be self-boarding gates and kiosks where they can check their own baggage.
Continue reading...Senate committee recommends ditching ground rent fees for airports
5. June 2012
With a healthy majority of our country's population living within an hour and a half of the U.S. border we Canadians visit our southern neighbour to do a lot of things. According to the Canadian Airport Council in 2011 some 4.8 million of us went down south to catch a plane, most likely hoping to avoid some of the taxes and fees charged on air travel in the Great White North.
Continue reading...Air Canada strike news update!
9. March 2012
On top of the airline’s current impasse with their baggage handlers, mechanics and cargo agents – who were poised to strike Monday – Air Canada threatened to lock out their pilots as of Monday after their union rejected their final contract offer. But fear not spring break travellers Canada’s labour minister Lisa Raitt has referred both disputes to Canada’s industrial relations board meaning neither the strike or lockout can go ahead while the board is reviewing the disputes. The airline and its pilots [Read more...]
Continue reading...YVR’s airport improvement fee increasing
30. January 2012
Vancouver International Airport plans to spend $1.8 billion over the next decade to spruce itself up so it can remain competitive in the marketplace. What does this mean for the travelling public? It means that the airport improvement fee will jump from $15 to $20 come May 1 for those travelling outside of B.C. For those travelling within B.C. or the Yukon it will remain $5.
Continue reading...San Fran airport unveils its yoga room
26. January 2012
can't believe Vancouver International Airport didn't think of this first. Today San Francisco International Airport opened its yoga room. Yeah, a yoga room.
Continue reading...Travellers left over 400k in change at American airports in 2010
18. January 2012
Beep beep beep beep beep beep. Yeah you forgot to take that spare change out of your pocket. Okay go back to the tub and throw it in. But now you're behind schedule and in a rush and what oh no you forgot to take that $0.20 with you. It might not seem like a lot but the spare change that travellers leave behind going through airport security adds up.
Continue reading...Delays at Heathrow expected tomorrow due to strike
29. November 2011
If you're flying into London's Heathrow airport tomorrow (Nov.30) be prepared for delays and cancellations. On Wednesday UK Border Agency employees will be joining other unions in a 24-hour general strike to protest pension changes.The strike is expected to cause long delays for immigration checks.
Continue reading...UK makes body scans mandatory
22. November 2011
If you're flying out of England's Gatwick, Heathrow or Manchester airport you will no longer be able to opt out of going through a full body scanner at security. The U.K.'s Transportation Minister Justine Greening made the announcement earlier this week. Greening said in a statement that the airports reported most of the travelling public are fine with the use of the scanners and out of over a million scans the government is aware of only twelve refusals. You can read the minister's release here.
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10. April 2013
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