Here’s our weekly roundup of the previous week’s select Airport & Airport Parking links spanning the globe. Recommended links include coverage of parking at major international airports, interesting personal blog posts and other content regarding the airport and airport parking industries. Here are links of note from the week of May 4 - May 10, 2008:

IAF aircraft hits pigs on airport runway
Hindu - Chennai,India
Nagpur (PTI): A transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) hit two pigs during landing at the runway of the city’s international airport, killing them …

Summer air travel thoughts & tips
By Travel Professor(Travel Professor)
By doing this you may be able to avoid crowded airport parking lots, standing in long lines at the ticket counter and security checkpoint. These factors should all be considered when deciding what time to arrive at the airport. …

Merced airport to get new pilot training center
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Merced County officials say Alteon Training will launch the $25 million program at a business center next to Castle International Airport in February. …

Speeding Up Airport Security
By Maggie Lineback
And then, it was as if the gods of airport security had heard me and intervened. A TSA agent whisked me from my spot in line across to the Family/Special Assistance lane where there was no waiting. Hurrah! …

Delta shuttering nearly a dozen members-only airport lounges
By Jeffrey White
In another effort to cut costs, Delta Airlines says it is closing down nearly a dozen of its exclusive airport lounges worldwide. These are places that you, loyal Delta travelers, pay as much as $600 a year to have access to. …

Airport ‘Lexus lanes’ closer to a test run
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USABy JIM THARPE High-speed, paid security lanes for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport have moved a step closer to reality. But it’s still unclear when …

Northwest-Delta union to open gateway to Asia
Salt Lake Tribune - United States

Atlanta airport wants shorter lines from TSA
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Inadequate TSA staffing at security gates has been pointed to by airport officials and federal representatives as one cause of lingering delays at the

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