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Japan’s Sendai Airport vs Mother Nature’s Tsunami

There are many actions mother nature can inflict to grind travel to a halt, wind, ice, turbulence, lightening … but today Mother Nature unleashed one of the most unpredictable and devastating actions in Japan, a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake. While this earthquake caused mass transit in Tokyo to stop entirely, something that almost never happens…

San Francisco International Airport Takes On “The Other Airport”

Most people never give a second though to an airport as a business, airports are seen as a building or series of buildings that planes come & go from. In reality airports are businesses and competition can be brutal for passengers dollars and airline revenue fees. Airports need to advertise themselves, differentiate themselves and create…

Tokyo’s New International Airport Opens & no one cares

Two days ago, on March 11 2010, the new Tokyo-Ibaraki Airport (IBR) opened. The inaugural flight to arrive was an Asiana Airlines‘ Airbus A321 from Incheon International Airport (ICN) followed by … well by nothing else… …normally the opening of an international airport is big news celebrated by promotions and fanfare. While the opening of…