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In our roundup of journey information this week: the world’s coolest neighborhoods, greatest cities for younger folks, and most internationally linked airports. Plus, a brand new 50 Best eating award names one of the best eating places in North America.
It’s been a difficult week for air journey.
Cyberattacks on airports together with Brussels and Berlin induced disruption final weekend and into Monday, and a collection of mystery drone sightings pressured airport closures in Denmark and Norway all through the week.
Today, challenges like these are affecting extra folks than ever. Global seat capability has surged by a 3rd over the previous decade, reaching greater than six billion a yr, in line with the Megahubs 2025 report, launched Wednesday by journey information platform OAG. But the havoc in Europe is a reminder that our thriving worldwide community isn’t invulnerable.
The report ranks the world’s most linked airports in 2025, primarily based on locations served and scheduled connections.
For the third yr in a row, London Heathrow held onto its crown because the world’s high megahub for vacationers needing to hop around the world in a jiffy. Every different airport within the high 10, nevertheless, has shifted place.
Istanbul jumped from eighth place to No. 2, whereas Amsterdam Schiphol climbed from No. 4 to No. 3.
Frankfurt climbed from No.10 to share fourth place with Kuala Lumpur, final yr’s No.2.
The Malaysian megahub isn’t the one Asian airport to lose floor within the connectivity race: Seoul Incheon dropped from No. 5 to No. 6 and Tokyo Haneda slipped six locations, from No. 3 to No. 9.
The US, in contrast, made good points. Chicago O’Hare, which has added 15 new locations, jumped two locations to change into the seventh most linked airport worldwide. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson, already the world’s largest airport by seat capability, reentered the worldwide high 10, climbing from No. 11 to No. 8.
Further down the rating, they’re doing issues greater in Texas. Dallas Fort-Worth rose 5 locations from No.18 to No.13, and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport jumped all the best way from No.29 to No.18.
World’s coolest neighborhoods and greatest cities for Gen Z
Photos: ‘World’s coolest’ neighborhood for 2025, in line with Time Out
So what are you going to do while you make it to those world-class megahubs?
Head straight to town’s coolest components of city, in fact.
On Wednesday, publishing big Time Out revealed its 2025 record of scorching ‘hoods. Visitors to Heathrow can take observe that the south London neighborhood of Camberwell was named fourth “coolest” on the earth, due to its multiculturalism and “independent spirit.”
Also in a well-connected metropolis, Kuala Lumpur’s Mont Kiara, at No. 32, earns its desirability via its artisanal bakeries, Pilates studios and third-wave cafés, says Time Out.
The writer’s No. 1 coolest neighborhood can also be accessible through one of many high 10 megahub airports. This Tokyo district is an artsy enclave beloved by generations of this Asian metropolis’s intellectuals and Time Out calls it a “bibliophile nirvana.”
No Bangkok district made it onto Time Out’s newest cool record, however that didn’t cease it being declared the world’s best city for 20-somethings by Time Out in August.
Melbourne was at No. 2 on Time Out’s Gen-Z record and its “coolest” neighborhood, North Melbourne, is praised for the varied eating scene and a plethora of cultural choices.
The No. 4 metropolis for younger folks, Time Out says, is New York, however attending to the neighborhood it crowns as the most popular — Red Hook — isn’t the best journey. There’s no subway station, however there are bus stops and a free ferry.
Also in New York, however within the central Manhattan neighborhood of NoMad, just a little Korean eatery with a 14-seat U-shaped counter has been named one of the best restaurant in North America.
The inaugural record of North America’s 50 Best Restaurants put Atomix on the high, with judges saying it combines meals, drinks and design “at such an elevated level as to forge a new narrative for Korean cuisine across the globe.”
A Canadian restaurant, the French-Italian Mon Lapin in Montreal’s Little Italy, is at No. 2. Run by a husband-and-wife crew, the restaurant’s menu adjustments every day, however its imaginative dishes may embrace something from chartreuse and tomato ice cream to honeynut squash with pig’s head and camelina.
A French-inspired restaurant within the picturesque Canadian wine area of Niagara is at No. 3. Restaurant Pearl Morissette seems over the Pearl Morissette property’s vineyard, regenerative farm, peach orchard and vegetable gardens.
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Phnom Penh’s newly operational Techo Takhmao International Airport was impressed by custom, however constructed for the longer term. CNN Travel’s Lilit Marcus visited the airport this summer time whereas it was nonetheless underneath development.
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