Airport

After exiting the plane, the first thing I noticed was the voices of the crowd. The words spoken at the Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport seemed to mix together, and I could no longer focus on individual conversations like I could at Toronto several hours earlier. This trip to the Colombian island of San Andrés marked the first time I was venturing to a country where English was not the official language. In the weeks leading up to the trip I had tried to prepare by memorizing common…

Paulo. Both my nerves and current cold contributed to my mix of emotions. I was both excited and exhausted with a throbbing headache that could be related to someone pitching a baseball at my head several times and never missing. We arrived at the airport in the small town we planned to build a house for a woman and her children. Immediately, it could be seen, by…

Aviation is a very complex system and airports as part of that system, are mini cities that need to comply with regulations and to be inspected to ensure safety, as well as the correct operation in accordance with the established procedures and regulations. In the United States, 14 CFR Part 139 requires FAA to certificate airports that serve scheduled and unscheduled airline flights in airplanes with capacity of more than 30 seats as well as those that serve scheduled airline flights in…

of traveling over 3 hours by plane to play the beautiful game was an amazing feeling. The trip started by my teammates and I meeting at SFO at 6 am. After everyone was at the airport, we went to check our baggage and through security. As soon as I was through security it was a long wait until we left for Fort Worth airport. When the time came, my whole team ran to the gate to get on the plane out of excitement and handed the ticket taker their tickets. Onto the plane, we all went and found our…

so long..and I've been waiting for this day since I left. I have to get up early tomorrow morning just to catch the flight, 5am?! Can you believe that? (6:49 am)Here at the airport, ready to go now. This business trip took long than expected and I miss my family oh so much. Once I get there, they'll meet me in the airport, we'll run and hug and kiss like we haven't seen each other in an eternity. Hopefully we'll get lunch after because I am just starved but too excited and busy to find the…

sitting next to the victim Janice Denver. Janice was unsuspecting to the events that would lead to the end of her life. She first sat down on the plane next to a seemly friendly man, Dean Lipshine. They made small talk, about how the terminal in the airport seemed like it could use some cleaning and renovating and the weather, nothing too odd to discuss with a stranger she had just met. While Dean wanted to know more about Janice and her life, he couldn’t help himself and talked about himself…

As I’m sitting at the terminal at LaGuardia International airport in New York City waiting on my flight to Los Angeles. Someone speaks over the intercom, “Attention passengers, the flight to Los Angeles will be delayed for two hours. I apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.” Thinking to myself, “What the heck, this always happens when I fly.” I’ve already been sitting there for an hour, I decide to get up and stretch my legs. Wandering throughout the terminal passing by…

Demand and Supply According to Mathews (2015), “Spirit relies on higher passenger volume to grow its revenues, which also brings in more revenue from ancillary services” (para 5). With Spirit Airlines, Inc. putting consumers in control of how they spend their money and allowing them to create the airline package that is most favorable to them is essential. If a couple is traveling for the away for a weekend getaway, and only needs one piece of baggage checked in, with major airlines, they…

1979 a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 wide body aircraft operated by American Airlines as Flight 191 was scheduled to fly an afternoon flight to Los Angeles International Airport from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport carrying 258 passengers and 13 crewmembers. During the aircraft takeoff roll on runway 32 R at O’Hare International Airport, the engine #1 fell off the left wing. Initially, the aircraft climbed away from the runway in a wings level attitude, but shortly after, the DC-10 rolled into…

It was two days before the first day of school was going to start and I was stuck in Des Moines. I was with my grandma and grandpa sitting in the airport waiting for the plane to come in. The plane was supposed to leave at 8PM but right around 7:30 the loud airport speakers announced, “The flight to Phoenix, Arizona has been delayed two hours.” Now the flight won’t take off until 10 PM and we were going to miss our connecting flight. My grandma went to the gate agent with about two other groups…