Iain Cochrane, managing director of Prestwick Airport, said the sunshine destination market was "more seasonal but reasonably predictable, in terms of the Scottish desire to go to the sunshine".

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The food, the shopping, the business center--even the impressive 70-foot sculpture depicting a story from Thai mythology that Vichai commissioned as the centerpiece to the international terminal--will help build Suvarnabhumi into a destination airport, the transit hub of choice for far-flung passengers.

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"Bangkok's always been a destination despite rather than because of its airport, " says Peter Harbison, the head of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation in Sydney.

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But it is hoped that the new Dusseldorf route - and the 20-million people living within an hour of its airport - will now make Wales an even more attractive destination.

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The flight was carrying 71 people, including 48 foreign passengers, from the city of Mandalay to Heho airport in Shan State, the gateway to a popular tourist destination, Inle Lake, Air Bagan said in a statement Tuesday evening that revised earlier figures.

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Having ended up 1, 300 miles away from her intended holiday destination, she spent a night in Miami airport as she desperately tried to get to the right part of Central America.

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