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The rising popularity of mammoth aircraft has led to a drastic need for runways long enough to cater for them. As airports adjust to handle aircraft such as the Airbus A380, airport-technology.com profiles some of the world's longest commercial runways. Whether constructed out of asphalt or concrete, runways across the world are getting longer.

London Gatwick Airport is one of the aviation industry's early adopters of wide-ranging cloud services for its core IT needs. Leading the charge is Gatwick's CIO Michael Ibbitson, who has been pushing to reduce the Airport's reliance on centralised data centres by outsourcing to the cloud.

More airports in Europe, including many in Britain and Germany, reopened Wednesday, almost a week after airspace over large parts of Europe was shut down over ash clouds from a volcano in Iceland.

The integrated passenger terminal at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, which will serve both domestic as well as international passengers, will be completed by the first week of July, officials said on Friday.

Come July, passengers flying out of the upcoming terminal at the Indira Gandhi International Airport won't have to encounter serpentine queues at the check-in counters, thanks to a new system that also promises huge savings for airlines.

With EasyJet, American Airlines and Virgin Atlantic trialling iBeacons at airports, a seamless and personalised passenger experience seems closer than ever. But how is it being used and what is the potential of this new passenger information system?

The JetBlue Terminal or Terminal 5 of John F Kennedy Airport is one of the first terminals in US to be built after 9/11. The terminal was officially opened in October 2008 and is primarily used by JetBlue Airways, which is popularly known as New York's hometown airlines.

Orchid,the Five Star Hotels near Mumbai Airport, one amongst the finest of the Five Star Hotels in Mumbai which is good for its hospitality service in mumbai.

The UK's Heathrow Airport recorded revenues of £1.97m, representing an 8.2% increase in the first nine months of 2014, while the US tightened restrictions on passengers travelling from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, who can now only enter the country through one of the five Airports screening for the disease.

Bling Limousines is Perth-based limo hire services. We engage in providing our customers with the most reliable airport transfer services. We also let our customers enjoy sightseeing in our luxurious vehicles. We cover the entire city and the suburbs under our services.

A Singaporean arbitration tribunal has ordered the Maldivian government to pay approximately $250 mn in compensation to Indian company GMR over termination of contract to run Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA).

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Heathrow conference and event venue , Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 is celebrating after its director of sales and marketing was awarded a prestigious Acorn Award this week. Run by Caterer & Hotelkeeper, the awards recognise future stars . June 2013

Manali's wildlife remains undiscovered by most of the tourists on their visit to the place as most of the time they remain fascinated by the snow, for which it is quite well known around the country. Most of tourists do not know about the beautiful wildlife that is present in Manali. The Manali Wildlife Sanctuary is regarded as one of the best among all the 32 wildlife sanctuaries that are currently present in Himachal Pradesh. Reaching Manali is very easy. Once you arrive there, you can either take a train from the Joginder Nagar Railway station or can also reach through air from the Bhuntar Airport. However, the best way to enjoy the natural beauty of the place is either by a bus ride or by hiring a private taxi.

The smooth, staggered launch of Heathrow's new Terminal 2 applied lessons learned from the debacle of the T5 opening. The Queen's Terminal was opened with little fanfare and a gentle ramping up of operations, a strategy that lacks PR dazzle but has proven essential to an airport under pressure to get it right.

From Qantas' QF7/QF8 to Cathay Pacific's CX 830/831, airport-technology.com lists the world's top ten ultra long-haul non-stop flights based on distance.

Over 15,000 crew members and maintenance engineers of Air India went on a flash strike all over India Tuesday, hitting the carrier's operations, according to airport sources.

Around 900 passengers were stranded at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Saturday as flights to several places in Europe were cancelled following volcanic ash clouding the flight path.

An ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano Monday grounded some 1,000 flights in Europe and forced the temporary closure of several main airports in Britain and the Netherlands.