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In between Hamilton and Toronto lies the city of Oakville. If you live in this part of the Greater Toronto Area, you have a choice of two international airports both within convenient reach and a comfortable limousine drive away. They are about 80km apart.
The larger airport of the two is Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport, which is the biggest and busiest airport in Canada. It copes with more than 30 million passengers each year, and has incoming and departure flights from over 100 countries around the world. It handles about one third of all the air traffic in Canada, and is the 20th busiest airport in the world.
The other is John C Munro Hamilton International Airport. This airport is capable of handling more than 450,000 passengers per year. It can cope with large international air transport jets, and it is very popular with winter tour groups visiting the area.
There are several other airports in Ontario in the Greater Toronto Area. They mostly serve domestic aircraft and passengers, as well as private flight services. They are:
* Toronto Bishop City Centre Airport on the Toronto Islands. This is used mainly for private aviation, medical flights and regional flights using turboprop aircraft.
* Toronto Buttonville Airport. This is a municipal airport and the tenth busiest in Canada. It is also the biggest flight school in the country.
* Toronto Downsview Airport is a Bombardier Aerospace Testing Facility, but also has fire fighting aircraft and trained fire fighting staff. Read More
Nov 07 2011
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Tags: Gatwick Airport, International Airport
London Gatwick Airport is London’s second largest and UK’s second busiest airport. Global Infrastructure Partners currently owns the airport and Gatwick Airport Limited operates the airport.
History
The site in which the airport is today was owned by De Gatwick family till the 19th century. Between 1920 and 1932, the land was used as an aerodrome. In 1933, approval for commercial flights was given by the Air Ministry. Hillman’s Airways was the first airline operator from the airport. In 1935, British Airways became the principal operator of the Airport. The world’s first circular terminal was built on this site in 1936. After some fatal accidents in 1936, the airport base for Royal Air Force. After the Second World War, the airport functioned as a civil airfield. During this period, maintenance works took place and many charter and cargo flights were operated from here.
Gatwick Airport was the first airport that established a direct link to a railway station. After changing hands and ownerships with different names, the airport was back to commercial functioning.
The Airport has two terminals and one runway. The two terminals: North and South were expanded in 2000 and 2001. It backed the award for the “Best Privatized Airport” in 2005.
Airport Today
Started as an aerodrome, Gatwick airport is today the hub for British Airways, Aer Lingus, Virgin Atlantic, EasyJet and a number of charter airlines: Monarch Airlines, Thomson Airways and Thomas Cook Airlines. British Airways and EasyJet are the Airport’s two dominant resident airlines. Read More
Nov 07 2011
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Tags: International Airport, notable airport
If you have occasion to travel this year, you may want to check out these airports (or maybe not!). Each one is unique for a different reason but most sources put these airports at the top of their lists for great engineering, unusual amenities, size, climate, and geographical features. Here is my list, in descending order:
5. Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand
This is one of just one of two airports in the world that features a golf course in its midst (the other is in Hong Kong). What makes Don Meuang International the standout, however, is that they refused to bulldoze the fairway in order to make room for additional, necessary taxiway, to augment those located at each ends of the runways. Did you know the Thai were so avid about golf?
4. King Fahd International Airport, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Not only is the Dammam airport the largest in the world (bigger than the entire country of Bahrain at 300+ square miles), it’s perhaps the most luxurious. It features a huge mosque and the Royal Terminal, constructed solely to service the Royal Family. The Royal Terminal contains its own reception hall and press room.
3. Svalbard Airport, Svalbard, Norway
Svalbard Airport’s claim to fame is being the northernmost airport (for commercial flights). It might also be considered the world’s coldest airport; located in the Artic Ocean, the runway was built atop permafrost. Unfortunately, this requires frequent maintenance since changing temperatures tend to cause troublesome fluctuations in the pitch of the pavement. Read More
Nov 07 2011
