Washington Post (March 8)
The war in Iran “is hitting the economies of Europe and Asia harder and faster than it is striking the United States.” The conflict’s impact extends far beyond oil and natural gas prices. For example, “the closure of several international airports in the conflict zone, including the world’s busiest in Dubai, idled nearly one-fifth of global airfreight capacity, interrupting shipments of consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals and precious metals.” At present, “the cost of shipping goods by air from Asia to Europe is up 45 percent since the war began,” double the increase “for sending items from Asia to the United States.”
Tags: Airfreight, Airports, Asia, Conflict, Dubai, Economies, Electronics, Europe, Impact, Interrupting, Iran, Natural gas, Oil, Pharmaceuticals, Shipments, U.S., War
Chicago Tribune (November 17)
“Traveling, especially in airports or by public transit, is inherently risky when COVID-19 infections are high.” With many university students set to go on break, “concern remains that young adults crisscrossing the country might seed new infections in their home communities—or within their own households.”
Tags: Airports, Communities, COVID-19, Crisscrossing, Households, Infections, Public transit, Risk, Students, Traveling, University
Institutional Investor (December 28)
“Every reader of Institutional Investor has suffered the indignities of La Guardia, JFK, or Newark airports — and most of them clicked on this feature by Leanna Orr explaining why U.S. airports are so very, very bad.” Not only was the article on the deplorable state of U.S. airports the magazine’s most-read article in 2017, it appears to be Institutional Investor’s most read article of all time.
Tags: Airports, Bad, Deplorable, Indignities, JFK, La Guardia, Most-read, Newark, U.S.
Bloomberg (March 3)
There is a “big problem with China’s bridge and tunnel addiction.” It looks unsustainable. “China spent more than $10.8 trillion on infrastructure from 2006 to 2015…. Outlays for roads, airports, ports, railways, and the like rose 17.4 percent last year, far outpacing the country’s 6.7 percent expansion in gross domestic product.” To maintain the pace, Beijing is promoting public-private partnerships (PPP), but these look “unstable.”
Tags: Addiction, Airports, Bridge, China, GDP, Infrastructure, Ports, PPP, Railways, Roads, Tunnel, Unstable
LA Times (January 30)
“The mere idea of President Trump’s executive order suspending the entry into the country of various visitors, migrants and refugees was bad enough…. In execution, it was a disaster, plunging U.S. airports into chaos and displaying a shocking lack of forethought and planning and a deeply troubling failure of basic communication and coordination among and between federal and local authorities.”
Tags: Airports, Chaos, Disaster, Execution, Executive order, Failure, Migrants, Refugees, Trump, U.S.
New York Times (April 26)
“Fixes for ‘third-world’ airports” are desperately needed, but the airports the New York Times has in mind are all located within the United States. “Like the rest of the nation’s transportation system, aging airports need renovation.”
Tags: Aging, Airports, Fixes, Renovation, Third world, Transportation system, U.S.
