Posts with tag ”airport”

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Review: The Terminal Man

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

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

Airports with delayed flights

Most people have had their fair share of trouble with airport schedules. The Association of European Airlines recently came up with a list of the airports with worst delays, and the winners are…

The pitfalls of airline security

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

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.