Posts with tag ”airport”
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Review: The Terminal Man
Some books are best read in the place where they happened. I first opened The Terminal Man while waiting for a flight at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.
Review: Air Babylon
This book by Imogen Edwards-Jones tells the tale of a character who works on a big airline. It actually feels like a collection of anecdotes tied together by something vaguely resembling a story line.
Airports with delayed flights
Most travelers have at some point experienced that special kind of airport purgatory: staring at a departure board while the word DELAYED quietly destroys whatever hope you had left.
The pitfalls of airline security
Airline security seems to become more irrational every day. After 9/11, a lot of new rules were introduced.
With the Terminal man at Charles de Gaulle
I was recently sitting at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing time between flights and reading The Terminal Man, the memoir of Mehran Karimi Nasseri. He is the Iranian refugee who somehow managed to spend sixteen years living in Terminal 1.