Paris Charles de Gaulle, Moscow Sheremetyevo, and London Heathrow are the worlds worst airports, according to the current survey at sleepinginairports.com. In the annual air traveller’s report of the Business Week Magazine, the Prague Franz Kafka International Airport has now been announced to be the World’s Most Alienating Airport. This is reported by the Onion News Network, maybe a critical additional information here.
The Franz Kafka International annoys travellers with 32.2 hours average flight delay, extremely long corridors leading to dead ends, and an unusually extensive security interview in which the honesty and identity of travellers is thoroughly tested. Furthermore, travellers complain about “everyone keeps calling me S.”. In a statement, airport officials dismiss the criticism. See the full story here:
Domestic passengers got the shock of their lives this week as bikies brazenly attacked a rival gang at an arrivals area.
More than 50 passengers arriving in Sydney on Sunday afternoon witnessed the brawl as the Hells Angels and Comanchero gangs traded fists. One man was hit repeatedly over the head with a metal bollard. Such was the speed of the violence that police and security forces were powerless to stop the melee.
One gang member was killed in the fight. Detectives say it was a carefully planned ambush on the rival gang, who were arriving from Adelaide, and had come to Sydney as reinforcements in a current gang stoush.
Four men were arrested shortly after the attack. And with security CCTV cameras capturing it from every angle, police are confident of rounding up the others involved. It’s believed this is the first such brawl ever witnessed in Sydney Airport.
If you are planning to smuggle some drugs through the airport next time you travel, add this to the tactics you probably shouldn’t try.
Apparently a 66-year-old passenger who arrived at Barcelona airport in a wheelchair with a leg cast made entirely of cocaine was arrested on Friday as he tried to get through customs.
The man, flying from Santiago, Chile, also had cocaine stashed in six cans of beer and two folding stools in his luggage, the Interior Ministry said. Police confiscated nearly 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of the drug in total.
Police believe the man, or his accomplices, may have broken the leg on purpose so as not to arouse the suspicions of customs officials. Damn, you have to applaud the guy for trying anyways. Remember he is 66 years old after all.
Has April Fools day come a month early this year, because this has to be a joke!?!?!?
Irish carrier Ryanair, Europe’s largest budget airline, might start charging passengers for using the toilet while flying.
In an interview for the BBC, Ryanair Chief executive Michael O’Leary is quoted as saying “One thing we have looked at in the past and are looking at again is the possibility of maybe putting a coin slot on the toilet door so that people might actually have to spend a pound to spend a penny in future.”
He said this would not inconvenience passengers travelling without cash. “I don’t think there is anybody in history that has got on board a Ryanair aircraft with less than a pound.”
Before you add “toilet coin” to your packing list, a spokesman for the airline said in a statement “Michael makes a lot of this stuff up as he goes along and while this has been discussed internally there are no immediate plans to introduce it.”
Now here is a fun idea. A swedish businessman has come up with a brilliant idea to convert a jumbo jet into an airport hostel. The newly opened Jumbo Hostel is only a ten minute walk away from the check-in counters at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. So for those of you who have an early flight and sleeping in the airport really doesn’t excite you, then this may be the next best adventurous option.
The hostel offers 25 rooms ranging from dorm and singles to the “spacious” Cockpit Suite. All rooms have a flat screen TV and wifi. The prices seem a bit pricey for a hostel, but considering the amount of money poured into the project they have to make it back somehow.
Some of you may recall reading about a Japanese tourist who became so enamored of the Mexico City airport upon arrival that he decided to stay there. Well, after spending 3 months of living in the food court of Terminal 1, Hiroshi Nohara finally decided to return home. Airport spokesman Victor Mejia says he left January 12 on a flight for Japan via San Francisco.
His residency there made him a local celebrity and Mexican news programs ran regular updates on his life.
Nohara left the airport on Dec. 31 to stay with a woman who invited him to her Mexico City apartment. But Reforma newspaper reported that Nohara returned to the airport on Sunday carrying three plastic bags with his clothes and blankets.
A British passenger plane was forced to turn back minutes before landing in Paris because the pilot, despite having 30 years’ experience, was not qualified to land in fog.
Speaking over the address system as the Flybe flight approached Charles de Gaulle airport, the pilot announced to startled passengers “I am not qualified to land the plane” and turned back to Cardiff.
A spokeswoman for the low-cost airline said the pilot was “an experienced aviator with more than 30 years commercial aviation experience flying a number of different passenger aircraft types.”
“He has relatively recently transferred his ‘type-rating’ from a Bombardier Q300 to a Bombardier Q400 and has not yet completed the requisite low-visibility training to complete a landing in conditions such as the dense fog experienced in Paris Charles de Gaulle,” she said.
Hey, at least the passengers were spared getting stuck at CDG while waiting for outbound connecting flights delayed by the fog. You always have to think positively.
Now here is a fun idea. A swedish businessman has come up with a brilliant idea to convert a jumbo jet into an airport hostel. The newly opened 
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