New Server Installed

Hi everyone,

Let me first apologize for the downtime on July 29; chalk it up to growing pains. Airport Guide has been growing so quickly that we outgrew our old shared server and were required to upgrade to a dedicated server. There were a few hiccups with migrating to the new server which resulted in being offline for most of the day but those should all be behind us now.

This new server is running on a T3 connection with a lot of RAM and SSD hard drives. So what does this mean for you? Speed and Performance

Enjoy!

11,000 Airports Added

It has been a while but we have been working hard over here. We have recently added approximately 11,000 new landing facilities (airports, heliports, seaplane bases, etc.) to Airport Guide making this the world's largest airport database at over 45,000 airports.

IAPs and Diagrams for France and French Territories Added

A big announcement today. All instrument approach procedures for French and French Territories have been added into Airport Guide. But that's not all. In fact the entire French Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) documentation is now easily accessible in PDF format through Airport Guide so you will always have the latest airport information including frequencies and airport diagrams.

Check out this link to the Instrument Procedures page for Charles De Gaulle airport

More countries will be coming in the future. Keep checking back.

And don't forget to keep the dirty side down. :)

Mike

Airport Search Results Update

A Google map has been added to the search results page allowing for you to visually see your airport search results on a world wide map; clustering is used to keep the map from getting too crowded. You can even zoom all the way in on the map and look at the street view.

The second great enhancement to the search results are to the table containing the textual results. The table has been upgraded to allow for much faster searching and filtering on words within any of the text in your results through the new Filter Search. box.

Feel free to play around with it. Just look for the Airport Search box and enter any airport ID (ICAO, IATA, FAA), name, city, state, or country and click Search.

Travel Engine Upgraded

AirportGuide.com has just rolled out a new travel booking engine. One of the biggest benefits is that we now have over 300,000 Hotels, Motels, Resorts, and B&Bs available for you at extremely low prices. You can book directly from the home page OR go to any of our 34,000+ airport pages (also heliport, seaplane base, glider port, etc.) and click on the Flights/Hotels button. A listing of the nearest 25 places to stay will be listed with a link to more information and booking options.

But wait, that's not all. In that listing, there is a Pet Friendly column next to the hotel name so you can easily find hotels that will accept you furry friend.

This just rolled out and is still in Beta so you will be seeing tweaks over the coming months.

Safe travels!
Mike