Chris Lo

All articles by Chris Lo

1. Airport slot suspensions: easing the pressure for ailing airlines amid Covid-19

   For decades, the world’s busiest airports have used slot allocation to make sure precious slots for take-offs and landings are…
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   2 Apr
2. Scrubbing up: airport hand hygiene could slow pandemics

   Just before Christmas 2019, an international team of academics published a study in the journal Risk Analysis on the role…
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   26 Mar
3. Covid-19: airports worldwide are feeling the strain

   More than three months after the first case was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan, coronavirus panic continues to…
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   5 Mar
4. Liberating liquids: CT tech drives airport security investment

   It’s been 13 years since UK police uncovered a terrorist plot to attack transatlantic flights using peroxide-based liquid explosives. The…
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   12 Nov
5. High flyers: legal cannabis creates grey area for US airports

   Is cannabis legal in the US? Anyone even vaguely familiar with the topic knows this is a more complex question…
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   7 Nov
6. Where pilots fear to land: the world’s trickiest airport runways

   As any experienced pilot will know, not all takeoffs and landings are created equal. There are numerous factors that can…
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   15 Aug
7. Farewell to the flag: is the era of the national airline over?

   National flag carrier airlines – a somewhat nebulous term today, but originally describing government-owned airlines in the early years of…
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   24 Jun
8. Snowed under: US airports’ winter woes

   Many Americans first became familiar with the term ‘polar vortex’ in the winter of 2014, when the north polar vortex…
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   5 Jun
9. Second sight: ensuring blind passengers aren’t left in the dark

   For a person living with blindness or visual impairment, stepping into an unfamiliar area without assistance is a great leap…
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   9 May
10. Flight risk: how does the EU Air Safety List work?

    In many ways, the modern world was invented in the aftermath of the Second World War. The post-war years saw…
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    22 Aug