Gary – Chicago Airport Expansion Will Finally Begin
Gary Chicago International Airport has long been awaiting an expansion. The project has been given the green light for take off. Officials in the Northwest Indiana region are in the hope that this will draw investors and create new jobs.
The Northwest Indiana is experiencing one of the biggest developments in the economy of the region. The Post Tribune, Merrillville reported Mayor of Gary Rudy Clay as having said that the regions engine will turn on the groundbreaking Wednesday.
The project will cost upwards of $ 153 Million and is expected to take up to two and a half years in completion. The project will be inclusive of extending the main runway of the airport from the present seven thousand to eight thousand nine hundred feet.
This will enable the airport to handle cargo planes and most [...]
Cancelled Flights – Tornado threatening East US
Thunderstorms and high winds resulted in flights going to Atlanta and New York to be delayed as the eastern and south east United States is being affected by severe weather.
The planes heading toward the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International, the busiest airport in the world, as well as the La Guardia Airport in New York were delayed until the storms lessened. This was announced at the official website of the Federal Aviation administration website. There were close to five hundred flights cancelled today, as the Flight Aware tracking service reported.
Eight main states had areas that have a possibility of being affected by tornados, and are part of the tornado watches. Destructive storms may develop here. The list included locations such as Washington, Baltimore, New York, Buffalo and [...]
LaGuardia – Beeping Credit Card Machine sets off Bomb Scare
A flight preparing to take off from the LaGuardia Airport in New York on 14th April was evacuated as a result of a bomb scare. The bomb scare was a dud though, and a credit card reader that was running low on battery is blamed.
The US airways Flight 2138 was just preparing for takeoff when alert passengers reported something ticking suspiciously in the cabin areas, as the airline spokesman reported. The plane was supposed to take off at 6 pm.
As soon as passengers reported the problem, the tower was asked by the pilot to taxi the plane to a remote area and dispatched authorities. The plane was evacuated and all ninety nine passengers were helped out by the rescue workers.
The passengers were taken to the terminal building, while the cargo hold and the cabin area of the plane was searched. [...]
Women Reports Being Molested by TSA Agent
Nancy Campbell, 33 years old, was in for a three minute ordeal before setting off from LaGuardia Airport, Chicago. Campbell was left humiliated after the security pat down by the TSA agent (Transportation Security Administration) when she was allegedly touched on the breast, crotch and inner thighs, after being asked to stand spread eagled.
Campbell, an urban planner based in Brooklyn, said that the frisking felt more like fondling, and it continued on for three minutes. The incident happened as Campbell was heading to the gate after already clearing security. She was stopped by a female agent who asked her to stop and drop her luggage and stand spread eagled.
Campbell says that she was not asked to step through a scanner. She was patted down in the offensive manner while other passengers looked [...]
Airports in North Carolina
North Carolina State has experienced almost phenomenal growth with respect to the economy, infrastructure, industries and finance in the recent years. The state is also seen to be attracting increasing number of tourists as well. The state is visited by a huge number of travelers that come here either for business purposes, or tourism, and there are a huge number of travelers that make a good number of trips abroad and within the state, so there is a huge necessity for quality airports in North Carolina.
It is to meet this need that there are a total of a hundred and fourteen excellent airports in North Carolina. The airports are among the best maintained in the United States and are well connected to destinations in the United States and around the world. There are a good number of excellent [...]
Pensacola Airport
Pensacola city is located in the western portion of the Panhandle region in Florida. The city is a beach community, and is visited by a good number of visitors. There are regional flight services available at the Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport which is a public airport that serves the region at a distance of five kilo meters ( three mi ) from Pensacola city, to the north east, in Escambia county in Florida. The airport has more than a dozen chain hotels that are at the vicinity of the hotel, located within 4 mi.
Pensacola regional Airport has one terminal building having thirteen boarding gates, and serves both international and domestic flights. There are the following airlines that are served by the airport – US Airways, Northwest Jet Airlink, Delta Connection, Delta Air Lines, [...]
Fort Lauderdale Airport Guide
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport, commonly referred to as Fort Lauderdale Airport is a major public airport that handles both international and domestic flights, and is situated in the unincorporated Broward County in Florida, about 5 kilo meters ( 2 mi ) to the south west of the business center of the city of Fort Lauderdale. It is twenty one miles ( thity four miles ) to the north of Miami.
How to get to the city –
Cab -
There are taxi cabs, wheel chair accessible vans and yellow cabs that can be availed off. There is a door to door service provided by Tri county Airport Express passenger sedans ( Ph – 9 5 4 5 6 1 8 8 8 8 ). You can make enquiries at the Transportation Podium at the lower level outside the terminal buildings.
Bus -
There is a bus that goes to the town and [...]
Charlotte Douglas airport – an international Airport
Charlotte Douglas Airport is a combined civil and military airport that handles International flights and is situated in Charlotte in North Carolina. The Charlotte Douglas Airport is situated at Charlotte in North Carolina, The United States. The Airport was established in the year nineteen thirty five and was named the Charlotte Municipal Airport, and it was in the year nineteen fifty four that the airport’s name was changed to Charlotte Douglas Airport, after Ben Elbert Douglas Sr., who was mayor for Charlotte previously. The Airport is the largest hub of the US Airways, and has on offer up to a hundred and thirty five destinations both in the United States and abroad. It is the eleventh airport in the United States and is twenty fourth in the world, among busiest airports of the world, [...]
Colorado Airports
Colorado is an extremely well developed state with respect to the economy and industries. There are a whole lot of people employed here in service sectors, finance and a number of others. There is a whole number of people that travel to and fro in Colorado for business from parts all over the world, the United States and other parts within the state itself. There are also a huge number of people coming here as tourists, the attractions of Colorado state are visited by a whole number of people as well. The natural beauty of the state is well known, and is visited by a whole lot of people. In addition to all this there are a whole number people that stay in Colorado that have to travel on a regular basis, both within Colorado and the United states, as also all over the world.
Such huge traffic [...]
South Carolina Airports
South Carolina State has experienced huge economically development in the recent years. There has been a whole number of travelers coming here so as to settle down and retire, or in search of work. The state is visited by a whole number of travelers, a majority of them business travelers, as well as a good number of tourists. There is a number of financial centers, businesses, media and art hubs in the state that are visited by a whole number of people daily. There are travelers from all over the world coming here, and a whole number of travelers from South Carolina traveling to other parts of the Unites States and the world, either for work or for recreation. There is thus a great demand for quality South Carolina Airports.
The huge number of travelers that use the South Carolina airports [...]
