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Never, Ever Transit In The USA

April 4, 2012 CD

If you fly and have to change planes in a country and then fly out of it, you usually go into a transit lounge. You don’t need to go through border controls or customs. But you do if you transit in the US and what a hassle it can be.…

By Train to Cardiff Airport

April 13, 2010 CD

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Nearly five years ago a railway station opened linking Cardiff with the airport. A 2 mile ride on a courtesy bus then takes passengers from the station to the terminal. The link was designed, quite obviously, to provide a public transport alternative to taking your own car to the airport.…

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What do you do about a problem called Heathrow?

March 7, 2010 CD

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Does anybody like Heathrow? Not the people who live around it. Not many of the people who travel from it. But after half a century it is still there. Surrounded by houses and sprawling industrial estates wrapped, around by motorways and dual carriageways, Heathrow seems always to be straining to…

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Flights of fancy

February 12, 2010 CD

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There’s one thing you can guarantee in the wake of the attempted plane bombing above Detroit in December: we’re all going to spend a lot longer at airports. CD-Traveller profiles the capital’s four main airports to see how they measure up. Gatwick Opened in 1958, Gatwick is the UK’s second…

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Never, Ever Transit In The USA

By Train to Cardiff Airport

What do you do about a problem called Heathrow?

Flights of fancy