FINALLY!!!!!

After months of planning and hundreds of hours of work, the new sleepinginairports.com is online.

Here are some of the new features:

* Drop Down Navigation
* Search Feature
* User Profiles - Sign-in, write a profile and submit your reviews. Readers will be able to click on your profile to read all of the reviews you have submitted to the site. You'll also be able to come back and add details that you forgot when you first submitted a review.
* Save your Favourite Reviews - did you see a useful review that you might like to refer to in the future? Now you can save it and refer to it in your profile panel.
* Airport Overview - each airport has an overview page. Here you will find helpful (and often funny) quotes as well as a list of features/amenities/good-to-know info that I discovered as I read all 5100+ reviews. Check out the Paris and Los Angeles pages....lots of gems there!
* More Details in Reviews - I always receive complaints about lack of airport info in reviews. So now, all of the airport features you check when you complete your review will actually appear with your review. You won't notice it on old listings that I've inputted, but all new ones you submit in the future will have more details.

Coming Soon
* Listing of the Week - this feature died when I was off doing other things. As I was working on the site over the past few months, I laughed so hard reading some of your stories!!! Now I want to share them. Register to receive the Listing of the Week by email.
* Airport Quiz - just how well do you know your airports??? Find out soon!
* Other Strange Places - I need to sort this section out -- what a mess!!! :-(

This has been a massive project for me over the past three months, so I really hope you all like it and find it useful. I still have a ways to go yet, so please be patient while I finish things off. If you have any feedback or suggestions, let me know.

Huge thanks to the web developers at Elehost Web Design in Toronto for designing, what I think is a fantastic site! Check them out if you need web hosting or design!

Whether you are a budget traveller who stayed in the airport overnight to save on hotel bills or you are a pampered princess who got stuck with a long delay, let sleepinginairports.com be your guide to making the best of the situation!

Happy Travels and Sweet Dreams

In the news....

Earlier this year, reading the airport news was hilarious. There were births in the airport bathrooms, divorces, weddings, baboons running loose, naked men streaking across the runway and even porn accidentally being shown on airport monitors. Nowadays the majority of the articles deal with security, terrorists, plane crashes and passenger traffic stats. It's bloody depressing. Well, today I did find a few items that were half decent.

* "Man charged after truck driven over Palm Springs Airport Runways"
* "Woman with braces causes security scare at Oakland International Airport". The title of this is a little deceiving, but I am reminded of how the metal in my leg recently triggered panic in Miami. I hate flying through the US.
* "Pilot accidentally relays 'hijack' code"

Singapore Changi is looking for management opportunities

Singapore Changi is looking to bid on managing Abu Dhabi ,as it seeks to "monetize its experience in running a world class hub". Apparently the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore is interested in opportunities in "various markets". Does your local airport need some Changi-like management? If so, send your pleas for a takeover to the following:

Changi Airport Managers and Partners ( Singapore ) Pte. Ltd.
P.O. Box 1 Singapore Changi Airport
Singapore 918141
Website www.champs.aero
Email info@champs.aero

Source

The airport is "a holy and revered" place

No, this is not the comment of someone who passed through the airports of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur or even Seoul. This comment comes from none other than the transportation minister of Iraq, who recently banned alcohol sales from Baghdad International Airport after declaring the facility a holy and revered piece of Iraq. Obviously this man has not travelled much. The duty free shop is refusing to comply with the order thus far.
In short, for your next trip to Baghdad (and I know we all have at least one quick visit on the agenda), bring your own "juice".

Taking air travel to a lower level

I am currently going through the site to update and add official airport web sites links. Well, when I got to Pittsburgh, I saw a link for Hooters Air. I thought "no, it can't be" the same Hooters where large breasted women serve beers to horny young men who either can't get a woman or who have a woman who won't give them any. Well, I clicked through and sure enough, it's the same Hooters. So what are the advantages of flying Hooters Air I wondered? Amongst their list:

- All Leather Seats - I suspect ejaculate is easier to remove from leather than a polyester material
- One Way Fares - they probably know that it only takes one flight to realize it's not worth flying with them again. Fewer complaints this way, perhaps.
- Two Hooters Girls on every flight - They probably perform the mandatory (but always ignored on other airlines) performance at the beginning of the flight to an adoring and attentive group of men showing them how to buckle their seat belts and how to place the oxygen mask over their face in case of an emergency.

In any event, clever marketing, but I can't help but think that by the time people read this post, the airline will no longer be in business.
For a laugh, check out Hooters Air.

Sleeping at the airport is one thing.....but living at the airport?

Most people who have visited my web site are familiar with the story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, the man who has been living at the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport since 1988. God, Buddha, Allah help him, as the place is reportedly a dump with dog feces on the ground and a general air of despair. Well today I read about Sanjay Shah, a man who has been living at the Nairobi airport for over a year. Personally, if I am going to live in an airport, I'd choose Singapore Changi (or Club Changi as I lovingly refer to it).....what are these guys thinking???