It is a familiar routine. Arrive at the airport, check in, through security with almost automated response to plastic bins needing feeding with tech toys, to the lounge, boarding gate, board, find seat, sit, ready for take-off. Ready for travel. We may pass by...

  December 05th, 2013. Midnight, South Africa time. It will forever be a day when people across the world will remember exactly where they were, what they were doing, when they heard the news: President Nelson Mandela has died. 20:59, at home, with family by his...

  Again. Once again, the wrath of Mother Nature has left a section of the globe battered, bruised, broken. And at a level of helplessness beyond comprehension. Super Typhoon Haiyan bellowed, banged and unashamedly assaulted its way through the archipelago Asian...

  The countdown is officially on, and the world is acutely focused on readiness watch. In less than 100 days the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games will light the opening ceremony flame, the athletes will proudly parade behind their raised...

  Once again, just one month after a massive fire at NBO International Airport fire that stopped the movements of air transport (and interdependent tourist and trade flows), the hearts of the people of Kenya are stopped as terror has taken over a shopping mall in...

  As the stale scent of smoke lingers over the scorched remains of the international terminal of NBO airport in Kenya, so to do the questions. How did the fire start? What will be the value of the damage? How long will it take to recover? When will flights be...

  At different points on the world map, for very different reasons, millions watch…and wait…and wait…and pray. From Moscow to Pretoria, London to Cairo, the waiting continues, the days waiting accumulate, the story unfolds. In an airport in Russia, government...

  With heavy hearts, the people of South Africa and the world wait, holding vigil, and their gaze on the Pretoria hospital that has housed the ailing President Mandela for three long weeks. Staring, anxious eyes and hearts, people pray, media gather, cameras...

  Right here, right now, Cape Town's international airport is enjoying the arrival of aviation leaders from across the globe. The occasion? IATA's Annual General Meeting. As occurs across the globe when conferences, summits, congresses and meetings bring together...

  April 15th, 2013 - a day presumed to be one dedicated to sporting heroes running across Boston's marathon finish line, in a split second, turned into a day of heroism across the city. As waves of shock passed through collections of runners and crowds of...