{"id":339137,"date":"2017-12-12T21:51:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/belfast-airport-makes-got-name-change-photos-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T21:51:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:51:38","slug":"belfast-airport-makes-got-name-change-photos-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/belfast-airport-makes-got-name-change-photos-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Airport makes GOT name change (PHOTOS) \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Much like some of the characters in \u2018Game of Thrones,\u2019 Belfast International Airport is enduring an identity crisis. This holiday season it\u2019s been renamed Westeros Airport \u2013 in honor of the fabled land of fire and ice. <\/p>\n

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A significant portion of the HBO phenomenon is shot in Northern Ireland. Apparently keen to take advantage of the show\u2019s popularity, and flog a few copies of season seven over Christmas, the airport has teamed up with the show\u2019s creators and Northern Ireland Screen.<\/p>\n

The show has given the Northern Irish economy a welcome arrow in the arm, over the last eight years, with GOT tour buses a regular sight. Fans of the show have flocked to the region to walk the king\u2019s road or sit on the iron throne, so this name change, however temporary, was a no brainer for airport officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the principal airport for Northern Ireland, we look forward to welcoming the hundreds-of-thousands of passengers, as well as meeters and greeters that will be travelling through the terminal over the festive period and will be able to visit Westeros, right here, at Belfast International Airport,\u201d<\/em> \u00a0said<\/a> Managing Director Graham Keddie.<\/p>\n

Just don\u2019t expect to see Daenerys Targaryen landing there on one of her mighty dragons anytime soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published time: 12 Dec, 2017 17:13 Much like some of the characters in \u2018Game of Thrones,\u2019 Belfast International Airport is enduring an identity crisis. This holiday season it\u2019s been renamed Westeros Airport \u2013 in honor of the fabled land of fire and ice. A significant portion of the HBO phenomenon is shot in Northern Ireland. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}