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Singapore opened a new «green» airport terminal on Wednesday, boasting energy-saving skylights, a butterfly garden and over 200 species of foliage spread over enough floor space to cover 50 soccer fields.

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Spanish construction and services group Ferrovial expects to sell its World Duty Free airport retail business by the end of March, a source at Ferrovial's British airport unit BAA said on Thursday.

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A strike at British airports set for Monday has been called off after unions and employers agreed in principle to discuss the unilateral closure of a final salary pension scheme for airport employees.

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Construction firm Vinci on Wednesday confirmed buying a 3.3 percent stake in airports operator ADP but said it did not intend to buy any more unless the government reduced its majority stake.

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Spanish infrastructure group Ferrovial is in no rush to refinance the GBP10 billion pounds (USD$20.05 billion) of debt taken on to buy British airports operator BAA, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

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It has been a busy year for B.C. businesses. The economy is strong, consumers are spending and many of the province's natural resources are in demand.

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It's not easy to run an airline these days, what with fuel costs and security concerns. So we would have a certain sympathy for Air Canada in their latest scheme to make passengers do more work - if only the airline would stop treating travellers like morons.

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Paul Smith writes: Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, airport security remains a theater of the absurd. The changes put in place following the September 11th catastrophe have been drastic, and largely of two kinds: those practical and effective, and those irrational, wasteful and pointless.

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Italian airline Alitalia said it has agreed to exchange three of its 13 pairs of slots at London's Heathrow Airport for an estimated EUR92 million euros (USD$132 million).

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Airport security delays can annoy passengers, but there is no evidence that it makes flying any safer, US researchers reported.

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President George W Bush on Monday advocated a market-based approach for managing airline congestion and said the government would again clear military air space in the eastern United States to ease flight delays during holiday travel.

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Paris airports operator ADP said on Monday it handled 6.5 million passengers in November, up 5.3 percent year-on-year thanks to increased traffic on European and international routes.

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With flow-through check-in, WestJet passengers keep their baggage with them after it is tagged and then they place it on a belt themselves.

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