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Unfortunately, it’s a far more familiar site: Logan airport...
...thank the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for much of this new shoeless security circus. With unseemly haste, the government created the TSA by nationalizing airport security after 9/11, as politicians tripped over each other in a mad dash to ‘do something!’ But this grand experiment in U.S.S.R.-style central planning has failed: The TSA has proved itself an incompetent, abusive, and unnecessary substitute for private airport security providers...
That will let IHG invest in growth, because travel is on the verge of an unprecedented, even unstoppable boom, says Cosslett. In the West, baby boomer retirees will be heading for the airport, not the rocking chair. In the developing world, more than a billion people have been freed to travel. Chinese tourists alone will make 100 million trips annually over the next decade. The global village is here, and any company parked on its intersections is going to do fine. But in view of the coming tourism onslaught, Cosslett says, "it's a good time to see the Sistine...
...thing I do not want as a Torontonian, it is a one-way ticket to Ottawa," wrote popular Toronto Star columnist Joey Slinger. "You couldn't sell me one for 79 cents." How about to New York? Porter has applied to begin operating flights to Newark's Liberty International Airport. The U.S. Department of Transportation is reviewing the application, and will factor in objections from Air Canada, Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines, among others, which argue Porter has an unfair "monopoly" on flights from Toronto City Airport. These airlines also want to compete for the urban traveler. Torontonians may accept...
...While the denizens of downtown pride themselves on commuting to work by foot, bike and mass transit, that doesn't mean they want every travel convenience - as a new airline taking off from the heart of the city has discovered. Until recently, the only airport serving Canada's largest metropolis had been Lester B. Pearson International Airport, located 20 miles from the city centre. The airport is not accessible by subway, so downtowners have to slog through traffic snarls to get there. That looked like an opportunity to aviation entrepreneur Robert Deluce, who, last October, launched Porter Airlines. Porter offered...