While most of the European Union is still debating whether or not to implement full-body scanners , the United States now plans to fill half the nation’s airports with the new security systems in 2011. The $215 million project comes at the heels of the Christmas Day bomb scare, and has been the largest security revamp since the country’s reaction to the attacks on September 11, 2001.
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TSA calls for 500 more full-body scanners
News on the people, airports, airlines, companies and aircraft that make up the day to day elements of the Irish aviation scene. Intending travellers at Dublin Airport should prepare themselves for confusion tomorrow when the departure gate numbering system is changed. As of first departures on
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Boarding gate number system at Dublin Airport to be changed from …
Compulsory body scanning was introduced yesterday at Heathrow and Manchester Airports. Although not everyone will have to be scanned – only a small selection of passengers – anyone selected but refusing to be scanned will be prevented from travelling. Currently, the body scanners are only available at Heathrow Terminal 4 and Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport, however,
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Compulsory body scanning introduced at Heathrow and Manchester
Ahmedabad: The Customs department has seized an aircraft LEAR JET-45, belonging to an Alembic India group company, for alleged duty evasion, top officials said here today.The aircraft was seized on January 25 from Vadodara, they said. “Quick Flight Ltd, an Alembic India group company, had obtained
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Customs seizes aircraft for duty evasion at Vadodara airport
Filed 1/30/10: I’m sitting in the Hong Kong Airport Red Carpet Clu waiting for my flight. Security and immigration were very efficient here; even my hip didn’t seem to faze them. I still got wanded, and my bag was opened but everything was done quickly and professionally. Sonia Liu from ACI Asia-Pacific on the cable car over the mountains
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Winging my way back from Hong Kong
Story from philly.com Basically a TSA officer planted a small sealable plastic bag full of white powder into a young college girls bag as she was going through security. After terrifying this poor girl and reducing her to tears he smiled while explaining that the bag was his and that it was all a joke, and that she was free to move along.
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The TSA goes unpunished yet again
FINANCE Surinam insurance company Self Reliance announced it will take over Clico-Surinam, another local insurance company that was hit hard by the global crisis. The bail-out by Self Reliance was made possible with financial support from the Surinam Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Surinam (DWT).
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Surinam news update, January 31st
ECONOMY The government has expressed its satisfaction with the improved raking of Cape Verde on the 2010 Economic Freedom Index released by The Heritage Foundation /Wall Street Journal, and has downplayed the drop in one slot since last year ( A Semana ). European Union Cape Verde’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Communities, José Brito, met in Brussels with European Union diplomatic officials for the first evaluation meeting between Praia and Brussels following the Lisbon Treaty ( A Semana )
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Cape Verde news update, January 31st
Romans 1:14-17 Apostle Paul I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome. (Asleep in the Light– Keith Green) I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
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Intimacy With Christ– Not Ashamed–Debtor to All
When you are me you are likely to travel internationally two ways – in economy (goes without saying) – with children or without. I should mention the ‘with children’ category can be broken down further into sub-categories ‘with children and husband’ or ‘with children no other adult’ – but those stories are for another time.
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Inevitabilities of international travel
Dear Travel Karma, Whatever did I do to make you angry? I was on such a good run for a while there, with amazing trips to Portland and New Hope and more, but my last three trips have proved rather taxing. Aruba went smoothly as far as flights go, but the actual trip was spent being stressed and lost and telling myself at least it was warm.
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Travel Karma
Arik Air posted new route maps on its website. Note that the Kaduna-Abuja route is not drawn, while flights to Enugu, Niamey and Uyo are currently not bookable on Arik Air’s website. Routes operated by Arik Niger are not included either
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Arik Air’s New Route Maps
When Monsieur and I travelled through Vietnam some time back, this fascinating country and its people had such a profound effect on me that I haven’t yet blogged about it. Every time I think of our journey, my mind fills with such a kaleidoscope of vistas and tastes and people and experiences that it overwhelms
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Vietnam – Tell me what YOU want to know.
Writing from Dulles Airport at 5 in the morning waiting for my flight to San Francisco. I’ll catch a flight there to Hong Kong to meet with my ACI regional director colleagues from around the world. Got to see the new Aero Train that begins service today at Dulles. I was actually invited to the kickoff ceremony later today, but I will be in the air
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Passing through Dulles onto Hong Kong
The nasty weather in the UK through Christmas and the New Year meant many travellers plans were disrupted, with flights delayed or cancelled. There’s not a great deal you can do about the weather but I wish our airports and public transport in general could cope with the bad weather; it is winter after all. Airline tricks and unhelpful customer support As you can imagine my inbox was full of stories from consumers, many asking if they were entitled to compensation for being delayed or their flight cancelled.
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In light of the upcoming delays that begin at New York’s JFK International Airport on March 1, 2010, airlines are preparing to make changes to avoid any massive delays. The airport is typically packed even during slow, less-demanding travel periods, so the runway closure will make flight scheduling more complex
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Airlines prepare for JFK runway construction
There has been a change to the departure procedure for Luton On Airport Car Parks. Departure Procedure Collect your car and drive to the exit barrier. If the ticket you took on arrival has your car registration number printed on it, enter this ticket and the barrier will raise.
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Luton on airport car parks: changes to departure procedure
Southend Airport has received planning permission to extend its runway. The 300m extension will allow newer, more modern aircraft to use the airport and could see the airport handle 2 million passengers per year. In 2008 the airport handled 48,000 passengers
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Southend Airport runway extension gains approval
Aer Arann and Aer Lingus have announced that agreement has been reached to establish a franchise arrangement between the two airlines. Under this franchise agreement Aer Arann will operate 12 routes from Dublin and Cork.
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Airlines’ franchise agreement offers Blackpool to JFK route via Dublin
Wizz Air has introduced its new web check-in service to more airports. Web check-in is now available on all flights departing from Brussels Charleroi, Budapest, Eindhoven, Gdansk, Frankfurt Hahn, Glasgow Prestwick, Hamburg Lübeck, Katowice, London Luton, Paris Beauvais, Poznan, Prague, Sofia, Turku, Warsaw, Weeze/Dusseldorf and Wroclaw.
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Wizz Air introduces web check-in to more airports