Near misses on the ground at airports increasingly are becoming more and more of a safety concern in civil aviation. When airports create more runways to ease bottleneck traffic more taxiways intersect runways thereby raising the risk of accidental incursions which means an aircraft becomes a collision hazard if it is on a runway used for landings and takeoffs. “[Incursions] are happening more and more frequently as air traffic increases and older airport designs struggle to cope. Of course most incursions pass without incident but when they do occur the results are very bad indeed,” Gideon Ewers spokesman for the International Federation of Airline Pilots’ Associations.
SAUDI PRINCE BUYS A380 ‘FLYING PALACE’ – Times OnlineIf you were hoping to be the first private buyer of an A380 a Saudi billionaire already beat you. On Monday. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud who happens to be number 13 on the Forbes list of global billionaires became the first private owner of the A380. His royal highness already owns a Boeing 747-400 but he apparently needed a bit more legroom. Bearing the moniker “Flying Palace,” the A380 has nearly 1810 square feet of usable floor space on twin passenger decks—enough for two tennis courts.
Millions of people travel each Thanksgiving and fly to visit family and friends but they often wait and wait and wait in long lines. At half of the nation’s busiest airports security checkpoint lines were longer during last Thanksgiving weekend’s peak travel times than in 2004. People who flew out of smaller airports during the last three Thanksgiving holiday weekends waited an average of seven to eight minutes. That compares with an average wait time of almost 12 minutes at the nation’s 50 busiest airports.
27 MILLION TO FLY DURING THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY - MSNBCThe Air Transport Association predicts that nearly 27 million people will travel over 12 days which means planes will be almost 90 percent full. In hopes to curtail holiday travel hassles a few of the larger airlines will add as many as 500 seasonal workers. And for planes that get stuck on tarmacs for extended periods of time airports are stocking up on extra food and water said Greg Principato president of the Airports Council International-North America.
LAX’s well-known restaurant Encounter reopened on Monday after being closed for eight months. Located in the center of the airport. Encounter was closed due to the unstable Space-Age arches. In February a 1,000-pound chunk of stucco plummeted from the underside of one of the upper arches. Thankfully no one was injured. The restaurant even received a facelift including new carpet chairs and lava lamps.
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