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Two Ends of the Spectrum The severe snowfall throughout the UK has caused all sorts of problems with various forms of transport. Domestic rail companies have had to reduce services as a result of poor weather, which is affecting commuters. Again, there are many airports closing for safety reasons. With all of the UK’s airports [...]

Current Closures Due to Weather As expected the severe winter weather has become too problematic for some airports and the risk of allowing flights to go ahead is too much. Already today airports have been contemplating closure for the rest of today or at least till conditions improve dramatically. Durham Tess Valley Airport has announced [...]

Airport Warnings! Various airports have been closed over the past week or so, but this morning most have re-opened. The railways across the country have also suffered delays and many lines have been running below their full capacity. With cancelations and delays a certainty for the future when it comes to flights, it pays to [...]

Severe Weather Warning Issued Many of us will have awoken this morning to look out the window and see landscape blanketed in white snow for miles. If this isn’t this case for you, then you have all the joy to come. The Met Office has already issued 9 severe weather warnings in various areas in [...]

Brand New Facility Able to Hold 15 Million Passengers The long awaited second terminal in Dublin Airport was officially opened today and will see its first flights depart from the €609m facility over the next week. The terminal has been in construction for over 25 months and has the potential to hold over 15 million [...]

Brand New Technology Set To Reduce Passenger ‘Indignity’ A brand new airport security system is being trialled at Glasgow Airport this month. The new technique is able to detect any explosives without passengers having to remove their shoes and coats. It is hoped that this new machine will cut down the waiting time for passengers [...]

New Airport Scanners Able To Detect Liquid Explosives A brand new airport scanner that can tell the difference between water and liquid explosives has been given the official EU approval. The scanner can even check the bar-code on your bottle to ensure that the contents have not been tampered with, heralding a new age of [...]

UK Passengers flying out from Heathrow Airport will not be given a choice of an alternative security check should they protest against going through the new full body scanners that are being trialed next week. Many people thought that a manual pat-down would be used for those that objected to going through the new scanners  [...]

London Heathrow has seen a huge surge in traffic thanks to the lack of sunshine and the failure of the ‘barbecue summer’. July was the third busiest month after hundreds of Brit’s booked up last minute holidays in a bid to escape the rain and see some sunshine. 6.48 million passengers used London Heathrow in [...]