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yessairportparking · 3 years ago

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World's best airport car parking services

WORLD’S BEST AIRPORT PARKING

Airport parking is huge stress when it comes to traveling. But that is not the case worldwide. There are a few airports in the world that make the process a breeze due to their sheer vastness. Here is a comparison of airport parking in all the parts of the world.

Dallas airport

The parking lot in Dallas airport is one of the most highly frequented airports. It can park about 8,100 cars at a single time. This high parking capacity of Dallas airport has also enabled the city to have a frequency in air transportation. It has made the entire process of traveling a smooth trial as there is no longer a need to stress over a parking spot.

Dallas airport is also called Fort Worth International Airport. It is regarded as the fourth busiest airport in the world. It is the epicenter for American Airlines. It is a hub or vital spot for Delta Air Lines. The positioning of the airport is between Dallas and Fort Worth with portions into Tarrant. The airport also holds a post office zip code of its own along with its fire protection, police services, and emergency medical support. The airport has served around 250 international destinations in 44 countries.

• Yess airport

Yess airport I located in Heathrow in London, United Kingdom. It has a lot of viable options for parking such as meet and greet, park and ride on-site parking, park and ride among many others. They focus highly on customer satisfaction and try their best to support their customers. Yess airport is the best airport parking as it offers safe options and pays very high value to the security of the vehicles parked there.

• Toronto airport

Toronto airport located in Canada is one of the largest airports with a parking capacity of 9,000 cars. It has a huge range of tourists visiting Canada. And the airport parking’s vastness just makes the journey even smoother. The name of the airport is Lester B. Pearson International Airport. Apart from serving Toronto, it also serves the nearby metropolitan areas.

The region the Toronto airport serves is called Golden Horseshoe. It is regarded as the largest as well as the busiest airport in Canada. The airport was named after Lester B. Person who was the 14th prime minister of Canada. He also received the Nobel Prize in 1957. The airport is located 22.5 kilometers. It is northwest to Downtown Toronto. It is the prime line for Air Canada along with serving for FedEx, WestJet, and Sunwing Airlines.

• Detroit airport

The parking capacity of the Detroit airport is huge. It can house more than 10,000 cars at a single time and also make it easy for it to navigate around the parking space. The Detroit airport is a major international airport that is located in the United States. The land coverage of the airport is 4,850 acres and is present in Michigan. It is one of the primary airports that serve the regions of Michigan and it is also regarded to be one of the busiest airports in the world. It is a hub that facilitates a lot of commercial services. The Delta airport also possesses a huge link to Delta Air Lines and connects both Asia and the Eastern United States. There are about 30 international destinations that the airport offers its service.

The airport is operated by the Wayne Country Airport Authority and has six runways. Apart from it, the Detroit airport also contains two terminals with 129 service gates. It serves the Metropolitan Detroit Area in Ohio which has about 40 miles of area. The customer satisfaction of the airport is also highly regarded.

• Chicago airport

The parking capacity of the Chicago airport is said to be 9,266 cars. It is also one of the most frequented airports. The huge airport parking option makes it a viable option for parking the car easily to prevent hassle filled airport experience. With the big parking option, there is a very little delay caused in transport.

The Chicago airport is known as O’Hare International Airport. On the Northwest side of Chicago it is placed. It is operated by the Aviation Department of Chicago in an area of 7,000 acres. It has been noted the Chicago Airport has non-stop flights, flying in 228 destinations. It is also labeled as “busiest square mile globally”. The airport was named after Edward Butch O’Hare who has the first US recipient of the Medal of Honor. He received it for his participation in World War II.

• Baltimore airport

Baltimore airport parking is one of the biggest airport parking spaces available in the world. The space can accommodate around 8,000 cars in a single parking space. It is vast and also offers a lot of other perks like easy navigation. The smart park option will enable the driver to understand the functioning and structure of the parking lot and they can decide upon an empty slot.

This is a very viable and time-consuming feature that is present in the airport. The “Smart Park” option will make it easier for the drivers to locate a vacant place and then park their vehicle. This will also save a lot of traffic from accumulating in the parking area as drivers are already aware of the vacancy in the parking spot and then they drive towards it. The Baltimore airport is also called Washington International Airport. It is a common airport in the Eastern United States and serves around Baltimore, Maryland along with Washington D.C. The airport is named after Thurgood Marshall. He was a Baltimore native. He worked in the supreme court of the US. Some of the common places that Baltimore airport draws passengers are from Richmond, Philadelphia, and Harrisburg. The land area or covering of the airport is 3,160 acres.

These are some of the biggest as well as the busiest airport parking that is presented in the world. Make the most of the list.

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mastcomm · 5 years ago

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Commemorating the Victims of Canada’s ‘Gay Purge’

One of the most extraordinary things about the “gay purge” of Canada’s public servants, members of the military and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is that it continued until 1992. That was a quarter-century after Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then the justice minister, declared that “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation” as he introduced the legislation that repealed the nation’s laws banning homosexuality.

This week the National Capital Commission, the federal agency responsible for parks, monuments and public spaces in the Ottawa area, agreed to turn over a large plot of land west of Parliament Hill for the National LGBTQ2+ Monument.

It follows an apology made just over two years ago by Justin Trudeau, the current prime minister and a son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, to an estimated 9,000 people who lost their jobs and who, in some cases, were imprisoned because of their sexual orientation. Several of them are believed to have committed suicide.

The memorial is being financed with money from a fund of up to 25 million Canadian dollars that the government established in 2018 as it settled class-action lawsuits brought by members of the military and the Mounties as well as other public servants who were harassed, discriminated against or fired because of their sexual orientation.

The program was almost as bizarre as it was hurtful. It emerged in the 1950s out of general Cold War paranoia. The Mounties set up a special unit on the theory that gay men and lesbians might be blackmailed by the Soviet Union into turning over government secrets. Officers conducted surveillance of gay bars across Canada and used threats and intimidation to get the names of gay men and lesbians in government. The police force even worked with a psychologist in a failed, almost farcical attempt to build a homosexuality detector known as “the fruit machine.”

There is no recorded case of any government employees, Mounties or military members having turned over anything to the Soviets out of fear that their sexual orientation would be exposed.

I went to the future site of the memorial with Michelle Douglas. She is now the executive director of the LGBT Purge Fund, but she is perhaps better known as the woman who fought back and ended the purge.

After studying law at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ms. Douglas decided to go into law enforcement. The military police service was the first organization to accept her application, and she was soon in officer training.

Eventually Ms. Douglas was assigned to the special investigations unit of the military police and based in Toronto. Its duties included running the gay purge for the armed forces.

One day her boss bundled her into an unmarked police car and took her to a motel near Toronto Pearson International Airport. For two days she was interrogated and given polygraph tests.

“Many of the military police that interrogated me were just cruel. Some expressed a bizarre, prurient interest in the sex lives of homosexuals as well,” she told me on Friday. “The people I encountered were absolutely zealous about it. They seemed to not only embrace the policy, but they wanted to demonize, mock and humiliate anyone who they suspected of being homosexual.”

In 1989 she was fired for “being not advantageously employable due to homosexuality” and swiftly filed a lawsuit. Her court victory three years later brought the purge to a close.

Many steps remain before the international design competition for the monument begins as well as the public consultations that will follow any proposal. But Ms. Douglas said that the 8 million Canadian dollar project will be completed in 2024.

Whatever its form, Ms. Douglas’s vision is that the monument will be as much a place for gatherings — whether celebratory or in protest — as a commemoration site.

Despite her treatment by the military, Ms. Douglas went on to have a successful 30-year career in the public service and recently retired as the director of international relations at the Department of Justice.

But she said that the purge ruined many people’s lives and that men were disproportionately among the victims.

“There’s far fewer men than we had hoped to see as part of this class action,” she said. “Many committed suicide. Some were lost to H.I.V. or AIDS, and some just went back into the closet in shame. And so it’s a disproportionate number of women who are survivors today of the purge.”

Trans Canada

My colleague Dan Bilefsky has left his home in Montreal for Vancouver and the extradition hearing for Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer. He slipped this interesting coincidence into his informative overview of the case and its implications for Canada: “Given that Ms. Meng is wanted by the United States on fraud charges, the irony has not gone unnoticed among local residents in her neighborhood that her 8,047-square-foot house is just a few doors down from the residence of the United States consul general, where an American flag flaps in the wind.” Along with Tracy Sherlock, Dan has also created a guide to the somewhat complex affair.

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are back in suburban Victoria after they agreed to abandon their rule duties and stop using some of their titles. Now that they will officially spend part of their time in Canada, I looked into where they may go house hunting. The royal couple (for now) have also sent a legal notice to news outlets in Britain that published photographs from the band of paparazzi that descended on North Saanich to capture Meghan with their super telephoto lenses.

Saturday is the birthday of Robert Burns, the 18th-century Scottish poet, and that means many Americans are engaged in smuggling haggis from Canada, David Yaffe-Bellany reports.

Jared Parsonage, a cowboy from Calgary, laid out the moments before a bull ride in an interview accompanying a photo essay by Devin Yalkin. It is vivid even though it was shot in black-and-white.

The N.H.L. will introduce a three-on-three Canada vs. U.S.A. game featuring female players as part of its All-Star skills event on Friday. The prize money? None, although the league will pay the women appearance fees and donate $100,000 to girls’ hockey groups.

Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers mascot who appears to be a close, if disheveled, relative of Montreal’s Youppi, is now the subject of a police investigation.

A native of Windsor, Ontario, Ian Austen was educated in Toronto, lives in Ottawa and has reported about Canada for The New York Times for the past 16 years. Follow him on Twitter at @ianrausten.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/plane-crash-iranian-victims-1.5423964

Bodies recovered from the crash site have been taken to the coroner's office, local authorities say

BY Adam Carter | Published: Jan 10, 2020 4:00 AM ET, Updated: January 10, 2020 | CBC News | Posted Jan 12, 2020

Manant Vaidya knows the tragedy of losing loved ones in an airline disaster better than almost anyone.

And in the wake of the plane crash in Iran that killed all 176 passengers on board, his heart is aching this week.

Vaidya endured the same anguish these families are now facing; he lost his parents, sister, brother-in-law and two nieces last year when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after takeoff from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.

Now the Brampton, Ont., man is once again seeing news stories of entire families wiped out.

"Those families looked just like the family I lost," he said. "It all came back to me."

Vaidya has also lived through a logistical nightmare that the victim's families are now starting to navigate: Trying to recover their loved one's bodies and bring them home for funerals.

Many of those who died in this week's crash were Muslim, and Muslims customarily must bury their loved ones as quickly as possible after death — something that proves almost impossible in a complex incident like this.

WATCH | Manant Vaidya says he wishes no one would ever lose family in an airline disaster again(VIEW VIDEO ON WEBSITE)

Experts also say that repatriating the bodies of Canadians killed in the crash will be hampered by heightened military tensions and the fact that Canada severed diplomatic ties with Iran years ago.

"There's a lot of psychological trauma the families now have to endure," said Liyakat Takim, a religious studies professor at McMaster University in Hamilton. "The trauma is just unbelievable for them."

Takim is also feeling that trauma first-hand; he was close friends with religious pilgrimage tour leader Asghar Dhirani, who died in the crash.

"I keep thinking about his last moments … it keeps coming in my mind," he said.

DNA TESTING NEEDED

Authorities have said the bodies and remains recovered from the site of the crash have been taken to the coroner's office for identification.

Hassan Shadkoo's wife, Sheyda, was one of the victims. Speaking to CBC News from Toronto's Pearson International Airport Wednesday night, he said that instead of his wife returning to him, he was headed to Tehran to retrieve her remains and be with her family.

"I wish I didn't exist now," he said.

Mohammad Tarbhai, a relative of crash victims Alina and Afifa Tarbhai, told CBC News that authorities need to carry out DNA testing, and he isn't expecting their bodies to be released for at least a week.

Vaidya's experience shows that, in all likelihood, reclaiming the bodies of the Canadians who died won't be a simple process.

He flew to Ethiopia after the crash last March, hoping to identify and retrieve his family's remains from that crash site. He quickly learned that would be impossible with an ongoing investigation.

The only thing he was able to take was soil. "That's all that was left to me," he said.

Vaidya, who is Hindu, brought that soil to India, and was able to use it to perform end-of-life rituals.

"As long as you have the soil and you have the thoughts in your heart and mind … that is how we got the closure initially," he said.

It wasn't until November that he was able to return to Ethiopia to officially recover his family's remains and bring them to India for final cremation.

Muslim families dealing with this tragedy won't be able to observe normal customs, Takim said.

Usually, a dead person's body would be washed and wrapped in a white shroud before prayers and a burial, he said, which would take place as soon as possible after death.

"The normal procedure would not be applicable in these cases," said Takim, adding that a precedent does exist for longer waits for burials in extenuating circumstances, such as when a post-mortem examination is necessary.

This whole situation is undoubtedly very traumatic for the families involved, he said. "Their loved one has not died a normal death."

Vaidya stressed that the families of the Iran crash victims should reach out to Global Affairs Canada.

"They were very helpful," he said.

'A FURTHER SHOCK TO THE FAMILIES'

Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne spoke to his Iranian counterpart earlier this week and stressed "the need for Canadian officials to be quickly granted access to Iran to provide consular services, help with identification of the deceased and take part in the investigation of the crash," according to a readout of the call.

The readout didn't say whether Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif agreed to Champagne's request.

Champagne said Thursday that despite Canada's rocky relationship with Iran, he's been reassured that Canadian investigators will get visas to enter the country.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that intelligence now indicates the Ukrainian aircraft that crashed outside of Tehran was shot down by an Iranian missile, possibly unintentionally. Iranian officials have denied the allegation.

"We have intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile," Trudeau said Thursday during a news conference in Ottawa.

"The news will undoubtedly come as a further shock to the families who are already grieving in the face of this unspeakable tragedy," he said.

The crash happened just hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on Iraqi bases housing U.S. soldiers, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to order the targeted killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.

In a report released Wednesday, the Iranian aviation authority said that it has invited "all the states involved" to join a growing team investigating the plane crash.

The organization's initial report into the crash said a fire broke out on the Boeing aircraft immediately before it hit the ground.

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'In the blink of an eye': After a whole family dies on Flight PS752, what happens with what's left behind?

Razgar Rahimi, Farideh Gholami, toddler Jiwan Rahimi killed in Iran plane disaster along with unborn child

By Shanifa Nasser | Posted: Jan 12, 2020 4:00 AM ET, Updated: 1:00 PM ET |

CBC News | Posted January 12, 2020 |

When Shaho Shahbazpanahi went to check in on the home of his close friends while they visited Iran, no one could have predicted they would never return — and that he would bear the responsibility of figuring out what to do with the pieces of their lives left behind.

Razgar Rahimi, Farideh Gholami and their three-year-old son, Jiwan Rahimi, were about to return after a month in their home country and Shahbazpanahi wanted to make sure all was in order at their Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ont., home, about 40 kilometres north of Toronto.

He dutifully scanned each room from the basement to the top floor, and the nursery where the couple would soon welcome their baby boy. Gholami was seven months pregnant, set to deliver her baby in March.

"They painted everything very beautifully, they had a crib ready, even the blankets were ready," he said.

But it was not to be.

'WE WERE GOING TO PLAN EVERYTHING TOGETHER'

"At 11 p.m. Tuesday, we heard the news," Shahbazpanahi said. "A flight from Tehran to Kyiv had crashed."

By 3 a.m., his worst fears were confirmed when the flight manifest for Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 emerged, listing his friends among the 167 passengers who perished. Fifty-seven Canadians were killed in the incident, which Iran took responsibility for on Friday after days of denying accusations it shot down the airliner.

The plane was mistaken for a "hostile target" after it turned toward a "sensitive military centre" of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the country's military said. Iran's Prime Minister called the incident "a disastrous mistake."

Shahbazpanahi said the couple's relatives told him Jiwan's stuffed animal and book were found at the crash site.

Until then, the hope had been for the families' children to grow up together. Shahbazpanahi's daughter's birthday was around the corner.

"We were going to plan everything together," said his wife, Nasim Kamgar.

Gholami was brilliant, studied industrial design and had dreams of one day starting her own business, Kamgar said through tears as she wore the necklace and earrings her friend designed for her.

A KIND OF SPARK

Gholami was also a lifeline of sorts for Kamgar — a big-sister figure who taught her everything she knew about parenting and encouraged her to have a child of her own to be a friend to Jiwan.

"But Jiwan never came back," she said through tears. "My daughter keeps saying, 'Jiwan.' She wants her friend... she can't talk but she knows that something's happened."

Rahimi was exceedingly knowledgeable and had a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering, Shahbazpanahi said. The pair met in 2014 on Rahimi's second day in Canada while Rahimi was studying at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, and they became fast friends

Both were Iranian Kurds, first-generation immigrants, sharing jokes in their native language that they couldn't in English or Farsi, Shahbazpanahi remembered with a laugh.

"We had a lot of fun," he said.

Three-year-old Jiwan was whip-smart, learning four languages and had a brain like his father, Shahbazpanahi said. He adored painting, reading and building things.

The family had a kind of spark that let them make friends easily, as evidenced by the many friends who considered them family and now mourn their loss.

It was also a function of surviving in a new country, said Shahbazpanahi.

"When you come as an international student... everything is new. You're starting over," he said.

'THIS IS UNKNOWN TERRITORY'

And so while Rahimi and Gholami counted many friends among their family, they have no official next of kin in Canada, meaning Shahabazpanahi now finds himself trying to sort out what happens with the pieces of the lives cut short by the tragedy.

"This is unknown territory," said their town's mayor Ian Lovatt.

"We have an immigrant family that moved here about six years ago for a new life, establishes themselves certainly in our community and in the academic community, and in the blink of eye they're gone."

When friends of the couple approached Lovatt for help, officials from the town leaped into action to track down their landlords to let him know what had happened to the family.

"The neighbours, the friends, and even the landlords don't know what to do," he said.

Shahbazpanahi says he's standing by as the couple's family in Iran processes their loved ones' loss. They aren't ready yet to broach the topic of logistics and what to do with their now-empty home and belongings. Eventually, he expects family members will make their way to Canada to handle the couple's affairs.

For now, the town intends to hold a candlelight vigil for the family, with plans to send a book of condolences to their relatives in Iran.

In the meantime, the couple's car remains parked outside of Shahbazpanahi's house.

He was supposed to drive it to the airport to bring them home.

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