and the Award goes to.......

and the Award goes to.......
Incheon Seoul International Airport selected as the best airport in three categories Best Airport Worldwide, Best Airport in Asia-Pacific and Best Airport with annual passenger traffic between 25-40 million passengers for six consecutive years with ASQ Special Recognition Award in the annual Airport Service Quality conducted by the Airports Council International (ACI) which has 1,700 world airports as its members.  Singapore’s Changi International Airport came in second, followed by Hong Kong International Airport, Beijing Capital International Airport and Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
Incheon Seoul International Airport is the one and only airport that has received the grand prize for six consecutive years.
The award is dubbed as the Nobel Price of the Airline Industry as candidates have to demonstrate a high degree of speciality amidst tough competition.
The award ceremony for the Best Airport will take place on April the 7^th 2011 in New Delhi, India during the Asia Pacific plenary session of ACI.
ACI gave awards according to 250,000 air passengers' evaluations last year, which rated airports in 34 categories, such as airport services, facilities and business. The Airports Council International is the highest aviation authority in the aviation field, and it has made airport service quality evaluations on more than 1,700 airports worldwide each year since 1993.
Seoul Incheon International Airport, also known as the Winged City, is built on reclaimed land located between two islands near to Incheon Port. The airport is the largest in Asia and is well-located for Japan and China as well as Korea. It opened in 2001 and replaced Kimpo as Korea’s main international airport.
Incheon is South Korea's most important transport hub. In the 21st century, Incheon has transformed into a global business hub centred on the high-tech and futuristic Song-do International City, which is home to South Korea's tallest building, the 305m super-tall Northeast Asia Trade Tower.
Incheon Metropolitan City, is South Korea's third largest metropolis, after Seoul and Busan, and tied with Daegu, as the largest seaport on the west coast and home to the country's largest airport became important because its location, connectivity to other part of the world.

I Luv South Africa

I Luv South Africa

South African Tourism, the organization responsible for the marketing and promotion of South Africa, has unveiled a new holiday brochure entitled “I Luv South Africa” and a website southafricaholidays.com for the Travel Trade and holidaymakers in Middle East. The brochure and website launch are part of a trade road show in Dubai by South African Tourism in association with Sun International, Etihad Airways and Tourism Point.

The Middle Eastern Trade Show event, held at Dubai’s Business Village Conference hall, featured a one-day trade workshop.

The website will also allow travellers and trade partners to view products from the brochure and research their holidays as they will be able to view regularly updated special holiday offers.
To also mark the launch of the brochure and the website a fashion show was held. It consisted of 18 contestants selected from over 200 applicants from 6000 travel professionals in UAE. The former Miss South Africa 2010, Nicole Flint, was also there to lend her support for the fashion show and South African Tourism’s launch of the brochure and the website. As part of the fashion show the contestants competed for four coveted titles, including “the iconic face of South Africa”. More on.......!
http://www.southafricaholidays.com/

Christchurch airport is closed.

Christchurch Airport reopened on Wednesday morning as frightened locals joined tourists seeking to leave the quake devastated South Island city.

The airport was closed overnight for all but emergency services in the wake of the 6.3-magnitude earthquake on Tuesday afternoon.

A security cordon has been put in place in the city while emergency operations are carried out. People are asked to avoid all non-essential travel to Christchurch.
Around 600 people spent the night at the terminal, while hundreds more filled local hotels and other accommodation as they sought to escape the city and the aftershocks that continue to rattle nerves and buildings.

A state of emergency has been declared in Christchurch, New Zealand. The New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management is managing the situation alongside emergency services in Christchurch. .

All other South Island and New Zealand airports are open and operating. International travellers planning to visit New Zealand are advised that all regions outside of the Canterbury area remain operational. Travellers should check with their airline or travel agent before commencing travel.

Busiest Airport in SEA

The Jakarta International ranked busiest Airport in SEA

The Jakarta Soekarno Hatta International Airport (CGK) is hailed as the busiest airport in Southeast Asia, receiving 43.7-million passengers in 2010, a 17.7% increase from 2009.
According to official data released by Angkasa Pura, the airport authority, passenger traffic has grown by 15% every year since 2008. The Jakarta CGK has an international traffic amounting to 20-22% of total passengers which is equivalent to nine million travellers, as reported. The Indonesian government has acknowledged the need for more investments to meet the expected growth in passenger traffic in the coming years. The government plans to take on a programme called ‘World Class Airport’ to upgrade its airport facilities that includes expansion of Terminal 3; construction of Terminal 4; and building a dedicated rail link from Jakarta city centre to the airport.
The Jakarta CGK can currently accommodate 18-million passengers. After the airport development projects, the airport is expected to have total capacity of 60-million passengers by 2016.