Posts Tagged 'airport'

Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport (SAW)

July 2 2009No Commented

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Located on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey the airport has seen increased expansion due to increased domestic and international traffic at Ataturk International Airport (on the European side). Like my other pictures of airports, neon signs are present at Sabhia Gokcen. They announce to the weary traveler that either hot coffee or cold beer [...]

Frankfurt Airport (FRA)

June 26 2009No Commented

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The Frankfurt Airport is busiest airport by passenger traffic in Germany, and the third busiest in Europe. It is also the ninth busiest worldwide in 2008. In the works before 1930, it opened in 1936 as the Rhein-Main Airport and Airship Base (the second-largest airport in Germany). Since the 1970s, it has become a major [...]

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (PHX)

May 22 2007No Commented

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Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport is the 8th busiest airport in the United States. The site itself has been an airport since the 1930s, but the building that stands today was constructed in the 1990s. This is a picture of Terminal 4, the Barry Goldwater Terminal take from a walkway to Concourse A. PHX’s geometric architecture [...]

Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)

May 18 2007No Commented

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Originally dedicated as the Philadelphia Municipal Airport by Charles Lindbergh in 1927, it became Philadelphia International in 1945. Today it is the 9th busiest airport in the world with 7 terminals and an ever increasing flow of passengers. This is a picture of an automated walkway near PHL’s ‘mall. Modern airports are increasingly more and [...]

London Gatwick Airport (LGW)

July 7 2006No Commented

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London Gatwick is the 2nd busiest airport in the United Kingdom after London Heathrow. The airport site has a history of aviation going back to the 1930s. In the 1950s, it was redesigned to be an alternative to Heathrow. The last major expansion of the airport was in the 1979. Gatwick was the first airport [...]

London Heathrow Airport

June 7 2006one Commented

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Movement in a space of movement.