You probably don’t realize it, but hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods pass through airports every day inside of passengers’ baggage. Well, a ring of baggage handlers at LAX certainly realized it. Police say they’ve been stealing thousands of dollars worth of goods right out of people’s suitcases for months.
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Ellinikon International Airport, located in Athens, Greece, was shut down in 2001. The site has been left partially intact while development plans take place, and photographer Alexandros Lambrovassilis has been revisiting the site for years to document its remains.
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The TSA needs help—bad. The agency and its blue-shirted officers have never been the most popular kids on the block, but things got worse last week when a former employee told all in a Politico article
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Mobile carrier research house RootMetrics investigated coverage at the country’s top 50 airports and found which ones offer the highest quality mobile experience and which carriers deliver it.
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It’s been an especially cold and dreary winter week for just about everyone—except the host city for the Winter Olympics. It’s a rather chilly peek at what’s Ruining Our Cities.
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Nobody likes the TSA. They slow you down at the airport. They pat you down. They take away your Christmas presents. Their tactics are questionably effective at making everyone resent them. It’s easy to forget that the TSA is made up of real human beings like you and me being told what to do in the name of national security.
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Airports are often terrible places to be. There are too many people rushing somewhere combined with too many cranky folks leaving somewhere mixed with annoying obstacles in the form of TSA security and rolling luggages. But it’s just like that for us normal folk. For first class flyers? It’s like being a rock star. One genius man took advantage of his rock star status and used one single first class airplane ticket to eat food for free for an entire year.
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TSA screened 638,705,790 passengers in 2013, and as we learned last year,
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It’s been almost three decades since Mumbai’s airport saw a renovation—a long time, for a city that’s seen some of the fastest growth in the world. But on Friday, officials unveiled an $890 million terminal, filled with Indian art and high-tech architectural acrobatics. Outside, it’s bordered on all sides by poverty-stricken slums.
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The FAA can make the rules about air travel
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