Word: hahn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will look at times like we are still at war." BRIG. GENERAL DANIEL HAHN, Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army's 5th Corps, on the challenges of establishing stability in Iraq...
...some regions, it's more than that. After the U.S. decided to close its military air base at Hahn in the rural Eifel region of western Germany in 1991, the local economy went into a steep decline. The withdrawal of around 15,000 troops meant that shops and hotels lost customers, and some 850 civilians at the base lost their jobs. Then came Ryanair. The airline looked at the base in 1999 and decided it was perfectly positioned to provide an international hub for its central European operations. The locals were thrilled. "When the Americans left the future looked bleak...
Those kinds of expansion programs sometimes meet opposition from locals, concerned about the effects of pollution and noise. Jürgen Rösner, a leading member of an anti-air-traffic-noise group in Hahn, has tried to raise awareness of the dangers. But in an area where unemployment reached 12% at the end of the 1990s - and where more local people are now employed at the airport than before the Americans left - Rösner is fighting a losing battle. "We can't manage to activate the public," he complains...
...easyJet will not dominate the discount skies. Ryanair already has an operating base in Germany, at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. The Berlin-based, former charter airline Germania is also focused on the budget traveler. From December, Brussels-based Virgin Express is planning flights from Cologne-Bonn Airport. Even German flagship Lufthansa appears to be getting the message; last month it gave its blessing to a proposal by German carrier Eurowings, in which it has a key shareholding, to enter the budget fray. Soon, Germans may discover what travelers from Britain now take for granted: for the consumer, no-frills fares...
...shoot-out closed parts of the L.A. airport for more than four hours, leaving more than 6,000 passengers temporarily stranded. It came just three days after Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn unveiled a long-awaited airport-redesign plan containing $9.6 billion in changes proposed partly as terrorism safeguards. But the focus of security in the new design was to keep terrorists and explosives off planes. Passengers would check in at an off-site center far from their gates, then take a light railway to the terminal while their baggage was inspected in a new underground screening and handling...