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Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport is located about 23km northeast of the city of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. The airport is owned by the Egyptian Holding Company for Airports and Air Navigation. A new terminal (terminal three) and a runway are being constructed to increase the airport's passenger handling capacity by 10 million.

In light of the US Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) recent tightening of airport security to include stricter screening of electronic devices, is the TSA right to be cautious or have its actions caused unnecessary hassle for passengers?

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport formerly known as Chiang Kai-shek is currently one of the busiest airports in the world and handled approximately 30 million passengers in 2013.

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport in France laid the first stone for the construction of Future Terminal 1 in December 2014. The new terminal will increase the airport's capacity to 15 million passengers by 2020 when compared with the current capacity of ten million.

Frankfurt International Airport is Germany's main airport hub. It is owned by Fraport, a public body that is also responsible for running the airport. Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) is the authority responsible for the facility's traffic control. The airport received nearly 58 million passengers in 2013.

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.

The Airports Council International has revealed the latest results of its annual Airport Service Quality Awards, recognising the world's most customer-friendly airports, based on 600,000 passenger surveys around the world.