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What does Amsterdam’s airport know that Europe’s other airports don’t?
TransportSkytrax released its annual World Airport Awards this week with one airport taking an impressive leap to the top. Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport shook up the top three regime for the first time in six years to take its spot as the world’s third-best airport following Singapore Changi and Incheon International. It was also the only non-Asian airport in the [...]
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London Heathrow still reigns as Europe’s busiest airport, Istanbul sees greatest growth
TransportLondon Heathrow defended its status as Europe’s busiest airport in 2012, a year when growth rates at major hubs slowed amid the debt crisis and booming cities such as Istanbul challenged more established centers like Madrid. Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport attracted 61.6 million passengers last year for a 1.1 percent advance, barely more than [...]
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Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport’s new ad campaign: We’re Heathrow’s third runway
TransportDutch aviation chiefs have brazenly launched a fresh campaign to promote Schiphol as a hub airport for Britain, cheekily nicknaming one of the six runways at the Amsterdam airport “Heathrow’s third runway”. A new advert unveiled last week boasts of more than 100 daily flights from the UK to Schiphol, with connections to more than 275 [...]
