Cars, couriers, and fast cross-country plane rides
Flying anywhere this holiday weekend? I volunteered to serve as a courier and will be heading to the Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to pick up Joplin, a retired service dog being adopted by a friend. While I’m there, I may have just enough time on the ground to do a little shopping for […]
Tattoos – and more – at DFW AIRPORT
I’ve got a long list of services and amenities I’d like to see offered at airports. Speed-dating and remedial classes in packing are on the list. And so is tattooing. Which is why I was tickled to see that, along with a jazz trio and an Uncle Sam on stilts, the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport […]
Music legends at Philadelphia International Airport
Marian Anderson, Mario Lanza, John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie are just some of the 107 legendary musicians, singers, and entertainers from Philadelphia honored with bronze plaques downtown, on the city’s Avenue of the Arts, on Broad Street between Walnut and Pine. But not everyone can make it downtown. So now, for folks who are stuck […]
Call me; I’ll be on the plane
For a few months now, Air France has been testing in-flight data and cell-phone service on one of its planes. (I flew on one of the cell-phones-allowed flights and wrote about it in my Well-Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com.) Now comes word that passengers on at least one TAP Portugal plane can send and receive […]
Take a seat – or 6,000 – at Oakland Int’l Airport
If you have fond memories of hanging around Oakland International Airport (OAK) and are affiliated with a non-profit in the Bay Area that could use some “gently used” chairs from the 1980’s, get in touch with the folks at the Port of Oakland. The airport recently completed a $300 million makeover that included the extension […]
Radar retires from Southwest Florida Int’l Airport
A few years back I wrote an article about animals helping airports keep wildlife off the airfields and out of airplane engines. That’s when I first learned about Radar, the official bird dog on duty at Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) in Fort Myers. Back in 1999, the airport was the first commercial airport in […]