A Kazakh man cut off his penis at Madrid´s Barajas airport to avoid being extradited home and was taken to hospital in a serious condition, Spanish media reported.
The 52-year-old man had finished serving a five-year prison sentence in Spain for a violent crime and was due to be extradited back to Kazakhstan.
Despite being escorted by [...]

If you were at Alicante airport this weekend, you may have been lucky to have bumped into a famous face or two.
In fact, you may have had some well known people on your flight. Why? Because this weekend the cast arrived into Benidorm to start filming the 2010 Xmas special of the ITV comedy show.
The [...]

Workers at six UK airports are being balloted for strike action by the Unite union.
Unite is to ballot more than 6,000 members based at BAA airports, including Heathrow, in a dispute over pay.
It has accused BAA of offering a “paltry” pay offer for 2010 after a pay freeze in 2009.
BAA issued a statement today saying: [...]

Spain to be ultimate winner of Government scrapping of Heathrow expansion.
British Airways Plc may use Madrid as its seat of growth in the future.
In the eyes of Willie Walsh, the British Airways chief executive, the government appears to be resistant to developing Heathrow any further which could potentially hinder the airline's growth.
BA is set to [...]

With the summer now getting into full swing Alicante’s El Altet airport is expecting to consolidate it’s recovery with it’s passenger traffic increasing by 7% over the 2009 figures between now and next Thursday with almost 172,000 users.
This year, although the recession continues to plague the tourism sector, the situation improved substantially between January and [...]

An incident involving a Ryanair jet at Valencia airport in Spain last month is being investigated by the Spanish Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission although the airline has described the matter as ´minor´.
On May 14th last, Ryanair flight FR-8384 from London Stansted to Alicante in Spain, was on approach to Alicante airport when [...]

Spain´s National Court has convicted three members of the Basque separatist group ETA of murder, attempted murder and participation in a terror attack and sentenced them to 1,040 years in jail each.
They were found responsible for a Dec. 30, 2006, explosion at Madrid s Barajas airport that destroyed a five-story parking garage, killing two Ecuadorean [...]

The CAA’s no-fly zone required by the high density volcanic ash cloud will not affect London airports for the period 1300-1900 (local time) today.
The no-fly zone for this period has moved east to a line stretching from Prestwick on the west coast to Humberside on the east coast and south to a line just north [...]