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- Bristol Airport under pressure to refinance debtLONDON (Reuters) - The owners of Bristol Airport may have to stump up some cash to help with the refinancing of 515 million pounds ($814 million) of debt which falls due next year, banking sources said on Friday. The western England airport, owned 50 percent by Macquarie's European Infrastructure Fund 1 and 49 percent by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP), with Sydney Airport holding the ...
- Berlin airport opening delayed furtherThe opening of Berlin's new €2.5-billion ($3.18-billion) airport must be further delayed until spring of next year, the capital's mayor said Thursday, in a growing embarrassment for city officials.
- Berlin airport opening delayed until 2013: paperBERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin's new airport will not now open until 2013 due to fire regulations, German paper Bild reported on Wednesday, heaping further embarrassment on authorities who had said the hold-up would only stretch to three months. The capital's long-awaited new airport had been due to open on June 3, replacing two from the Cold War era. But just weeks before its launch date the ...
- Blind Chinese activist Chen says is at Beijing airportBEIJING (Reuters) - Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng said on Saturday he had left a hospital in Beijing and was at the airport where he expected to be departing for the United States, a move that would signal the end of a diplomatic crisis between the two country. Chen, who has been in hospital for the past three weeks since he sought refuge in the U.S. embassy, said he believed he ...
- New Atlanta airport international terminal opensA sleek new $1.4 billion international terminal featuring airy windows and eye-popping artwork opened Wednesday at the world's busiest airport in hopes of positioning Atlanta to attract more globe-trotting travelers.
- Berlin airport opening delayed to MarchFRANKFURT (Reuters) - The opening of Berlin's new airport has been pushed back nine months to March 17 after problems with fire safety systems, dealing an embarrassing blow to the German capital and angering airlines. Manfred Koertgen, the airport's managing director for technical issues, has been sacked and will leave the role on June 1, Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit told reporters on Thursday ...
- Airport worker allegedly had man's ID before deathA Newark Liberty Airport security supervisor pleaded not guilty to identity theft Tuesday as new details emerged about his alleged 20-year odyssey of deception, including that he may have assumed the identity of a New York man weeks before the man was murdered.
- Police: Cabbie likely sold ID to NJ airport workerA New Jersey airport security supervisor accused of using a murdered man's identity to hide his illegal immigrant status apparently bought the man's birth certificate and Social Security number from an intermediary before his death, police said Wednesday.
- Airport warns over security movesDublin airport has warned it will take two months to bring its security measures into line with new European rules.
- Chemical sends 5 from Fla airport to hospitalA terminal at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was closed for a time after an unknown chemical sent five people to the hospital with respiratory complaints.
