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Munich Airport faced significant disruption on Saturday morning when climate activists from the Last Generation movement breached the grounds and glued themselves to a runway in protest against climate policy. The demonstration, which coincided with one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, led to the temporary closure of the airport and resulted in numerous flight cancellations and delays. The activists, who criticised government subsidies for the airline industry, targeted the airport to highlight the environmental impact of air travel. "Problem is the government, not our holiday," rea...
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Joni Vorpsi was protesting outside the Albanian Parliament when he heard the draft law he was there to stop had passed. Law 21/2024, as it’s officially known, is a nightmare for environmentalists as it enables the construction of five-star mega resorts anywhere in the country - including protected natural areas. Its approval came in February, three days after Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner went public with his plans to create two resorts by the Vjosa River delta, an ecologically priceless wetland. “It was devastating,” says Vorpsi, a project manager at the Protection and Preservation ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Lawsuits are flying in a dispute between two California airports over the right to use the name "San Francisco" -- despite neither of them being in the city. San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is suing the recently renamed San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport (OAK), insisting the similar sounding names might confuse potential passengers. Their lawsuit has been met with a counterclaim from The Port of Oakland asking a judge to rule its airport's new moniker -- which replaced "Metropolitan Oakland International Airport" -- is not a copyright infringement. "C...
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Travellers booking with budget airlines often see their arrival at a regional airport and extended journey to their destination as the price they have to pay for a low-cost fare. Fly with a low-cost carrier to Paris and you’ll probably land at Beauvais-Tillé Airport some 85 kilometres northwest of the capital. Book for Milan and you might arrive at Orio al Serio International Airport, closer to the city of Bergamo than to Italy’s fashion capital. But instead of viewing this as an inconvenience, consider using it as a way to explore some of Europe’s unsung cities. Wander canals and sip prosecco...
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E-gates at airports across the UK have returned to normal following a mass outage which caused disruption and huge queues for thousands of passengers. On Tuesday, the electronic gates Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester and Bristol airports stopped working, delaying passengers who were trying to cross the UK border. The British Home Office has ruled out a cyberattack as the cause. They say the widespread delays were down to a nationwide technical outage. "As soon as engineers detected a wider system network issue at 19:44 pm last night, a large-scale contingency resp...
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The world’s top 10 cleanest airports have been announced - and only one hub in Europe features on the list. In fact, the ranking is almost exclusively made up of airports in Asia, with the exception of Zurich in Switzerland, which comes in tenth place. The research was undertaken by airline rating organisation Skytrax as part of its World Airport Awards. Here are the cleanest airports worldwide - and what qualified them for that accolade. Japan snags four out of the 10 top spots on Skytrax’s listTokyo’s Haneda Airport came in first place as the world's cleanest airport. Skytrax praised the cle...
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«Es ging immer nur um meine Tochter» - so erklärt der Hamburger Flughafen-Geiselnehmer seine Tat von Anfang November vergangenen Jahres vor Gericht. «Ich wollte nur Deutschland verlassen, ich wollte, dass die Polizei Wege findet, dass sie uns in die Türkei schicken», sagt der Angeklagte in einer Erklärung, die seine Verteidigerin zum Auftakt des Prozesses vor einer Strafkammer am Landgericht Hamburg verliest. Er habe mit der damals Vierjährigen nach Istanbul fliegen wollen, fügt der 35-Jährige auf Nachfrage des Vorsitzenden Richters am Landgericht, Torsten Schwarz, hinzu. Vor Geiselnahme lange...
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Heathrow Airport is set to face severe disruption as staff announce several walkouts. The London hub has confirmed there will be strikes at the end of April and for much of May. The Unite union has warned that planes will likely be "delayed, disrupted and grounded". The long weekend walkout is part of a slew of strikes to be held by different departments at the UK's biggest airport over the next few weeks. Border Force officers are set to strike from 29 April to 2 MayThe Public and Commercial Services trade union (PCS), which represents Border Force officials, says more than 300 of its members...
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Air traffic controllers in France are planning to strike on Thursday 25 April. Workers are protesting the restructuring of their services. French airports and international flights face disruption during the walkout. Staff have until Tuesday to announce whether they will be involved in the walkout, but it is thought that it could affect up to 70 per cent of flights at major airports. A ‘black day’ for French airportsFrance’s largest air traffic controllers union has filed a strike notice for this Thursday. The SNCTA, which represents over 60 per cent of France’s air traffic controllers, told t...
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Every Christmas Day for the last 76 years, a priest has taken a chalice of water onto the quiet airfield at Dublin Airport and blessed the planes. But that tradition is up in the air due to new security protocols at the busy international hub. “Due to recent changes to security protocols, airside access is now restricted to airport operations only,” a spokesperson for DAA, the airport’s operator, tells Euronews Travel. “For this reason, non-operational activities can no longer be facilitated airside. We are currently working on a new approach to facilitating the traditional Christmas blessing ...
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