For business or pleasure? It is a simple question you often hear at the airport check-in or when you reserve your plane ticket online. You may think it is just a nice way for the flight attendant, security personal, or the baggage carrier to make conversation and provide good customer service. In reality, the airport …
Airport Check-in: Why Do They Ask Business or Pleasure? Read More »
If you are a frequent flyer, you might have experienced a final approach over water all the way to the runway. This makes a lot of people think that most airports are next to a lake or ocean. Of course, this is far from the truth. However, a lot of them are indeed located next …
Why Are So Many Airports Located Near Bodies of Water? Read More »
Catching a flight can be stressful enough, scrambling around for your tickets and passport, queuing for security, and trying to find your gate. Now imagine all the usual anxiety involved with being in an airport when you get the news there is an impending hurricane? Terrifying stuff, so how do airports prepare and deal with …
How Do Airports Prepare and Deal With Extreme Weather? Read More »
Moving walkways, people movers, ground-level escalators, travellators, moving sidewalks…whatever you want to call them, if you have traveled through airports, you have likely ridden on one of these moving walkways. Moving walkways are essentially escalators, except they do not go up and down, they travel at ground level. These walkways ferry you in a straight …
Curious About Airport Moving Walkways? Here’s the Scoop Read More »
Fuel is the lifeblood of any successful airline. Without it, aircraft would be grounded indefinitely. Busy airports can need to refuel over 1600 aircraft a day, that?s a lot of fuel! But where do they get it from? Airports use so much that they are supplied by a pipeline from a refinery. This fuel is …
